Rather than demanding that 60 million people sharing music files turn themselves in with a so-called 'amnesty' program, the recording industry should take this opportunity to make file-sharing legal in exchange for a reasonable fee.

Stepping into the spotlight to admit your guilt is probably not a sensible course for most people sharing music files online.

In this case, it seemed the video's circulation online was driving more people to watch SNL on television, (and likely encouraging them to watch it live so they could have the first crack at talking about new episodes with friends) -- attracting viewers especially among the young, connected demographic advertisers want to reach.

Emotional or ethical considerations aside, it doesn't make good economic sense to turn 12 million people into felons and/or to send them all back to the countries they came from. At the end of the day, the U.S. does not presently have the financial resources to effectively enforce these kinds of measures, even if doing either could somehow be seen as the right thing to do.

He had a program called Free Spirit, ... He split $1 million four ways between people who didn't conform to the normal. I did a couple of slow rolls with the X-1 (the plane in which he broke the sound barrier), and I guess he thought that qualified.

[The ruling] does chill linking and, in the long run, it chills the Internet. Certainly linking will become a key issue for an appeal now.