I'm sick of people saying "The RIAA". Say "Sony, Werner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and other members of the RIAA". Using "RIAA" just shields these brands from the appropriate bad feelings they deserve to garner.

Cool! How much does it cost for me to advertise my stock gallery on BoingBoing? Are you posting rates? Or is this still a bribe-the-blogger type of thing. I'm glad to see at least one blog supporting the old fashioned value of having bits belong to the original creator!

How long is it going to be until pages just embed a tag in offendable content and be done with it? Is this really such a hard problem?

Great news. Being prosecuted in Canada for acts abroad that Canada retroactively enforces leads down a slippery, well-intentioned path. Good law accretes expectations of moral behavior rather than revisiting the past, even when the crime was heinous.