Somewhat? I assume that any group with an agenda to push will use all media outlets available to them to achieve their aims. Whether a specific app was developed to propagate specific beliefs is kind of irrelevant.

This is just one more way Spotify is devaluing their own platform, by making themselves look cheap and showing the world that they have no respect for the artists from whose work they reap millions.

or when the current president is finished even acting like heâ(TM)s doing the job and has fired as many competent government professionals as he can.

But suppose that your password is, in and of itself, an admission of some wrongdoing? My password is now "Ikilledadrifterin1987andtheyneverfoundthebody_1"

Not to mention that if you get pregnant in February, the chance of getting pregnant in subsequent months drops pretty significantly.

Precisely.
Thanks to recent legal precedents, every independent artist who eschews the music protection racket now plays for the profit farm team.
End up making too much money and you might just find out your hit song just happens to "share the feel" or "style" of a song which is owned by a rights management org.

Yeah - maybe my age / lameness quotient is starting to show, but this sounds like a horrible idea.
The potential for abuse is staggering.
Maybe people could just pay attention when they drive?

"Well sure - but if it doesn't increase the monthly bill, what's the point in even making the things?"
-Generic Executive

Setting up an extra cell tower to satisfy VERIZON's greed isn't going to be cost effective for VZ.
fixed.
Characterizing a consumer as greedy because s/he is using a lot of bandwidth when that is exactly what they were offered by the vendor seems a little wide of the mark.

So frustrating that it won't let me use street view. grrr.

Right! We disable this feature from 10-11 am Eastern every 3rd Tuesday. That's when we hold our press conferences that address privacy concerns.

I look forward to this being implemented for bot transactions on the exchange also. I mean....if it's bad for concert tickets.....it's really bad for your investments, right?

Perhaps we are all hard at work for them right now - advising them of potential legal issues, tweaking their business model, and generally replacing paid pre-launch research?

I was wondering the exact same thing. My (tiny) kingdom for some mod points!

Sounds to me like the RIAA has *finally* figured out that suing the music consumers wasn't doing a lot of good, as they were both not well funded and becoming scarcer. Google on the other hand does seem to be a cash cow. Just how do we crack this open?