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No good deed goes unpunished. Someone actually paid for some content, and this lawsuit is his reward. We ought to make this into a lesson for the copyright holders. Never buy content. Let them go out of business. They deserve to, for suing their own customers. But, there is another way.

No one should ever give up their privacy to pay for a movie, whether or not it's porn. If Mr. Fisher had used a prepaid credit card with no or fake info, he would be safe from this nonsense. What should he do now? Maybe too late for this one, but he could "accidentally" lose his credit card, then claim thieves used it to buy the porn.

Such privacy preserving payment methods aren't as convenient as they could be, but they do exist. From what I've read, you can buy a prepaid credit card with cash. You may have to give a name and address, because many merchants will use that information to verify that the card hasn't been stolen. But, the personal information does not have to be real. It only has to match with the name and address you use with the online merchant. Privacy advocates particularly recommend this Simon Card. Of course to preserve your privacy you shouldn't buy the prepaid card online, have to go to a store where you can buy it with cash.

What do you expect would happen when the biggest mall in the Southeast opens 10 miles down the highway?

Do you believe that non-white people make land cheap, or is it that non-white people live on the land no one else wants to buy?

Anyway, I laugh at the white flight. Those peons were OTP to begin with, and they're even more OTP now. Enjoy the commute.

For those worried about an evil google:
1) When shopping online, open accounts with fake info, but use real card info.
2) For the cards, buy and use the Simon Visa Gift Cards, or the like. You can put whatever info on them you want, and you can buy them with cash. They are untraceable.

After the above, google can track each account, but they can't correlated anything so it's pretty harmless. It only gets nasty if they get access to your bank account data, but then the games over already as far as I'm concerned.

There are many of these virtual card services, eg www-card, Simon giftaccount, etc.

I used one of these cards to purchase an airline ticket with cash. Didn't have any trouble. Apparently they are not red-flagged.

Apple tends to go for the same style mall for its stores - upper class, with typically the same stores. Simon Malls are one of the companies it uses a lot. For example, look at: this list of malls in MA. Then compare that to Apple's list of stores. Only one store in mass (cambridgeside) isn't at a Simon mall.

http://www.simon.com/giftcard

(Disposable Visa cards) Used them for years with no problems, and they'll mail you the card if you can't go pick one up.

Just google on "Visa Gift Card" and you'll find any number of others doing the same.

First in the industry?

As recently as 2 years ago, Mapquest had satellite images for most of the US. I could type in the addresses of all my friends from college and my parents' and get pictures of their homes. The resolution wasn't great, and different zoom features may have been from different satellite passes, but it was a very entertaining and educational service. (The highest resolution pass of my home showed nothing but cleared dirt but the third highest showed completed structures.)

Once I was trying to give someone directions to the Cheesecake Factory in Austin's Arboretum, the map services were not very informative, and the restaraunt is actually kind of hidden from most of the parking lot. The map services could get a car to the complex, but it's a decent sized place to direct a coworker. So I got the satellite image, printed it on the color laser printer and pointed out the building we'd meet at. Worked great.

It was, of course, licensed from a third party and I have no doubt the licence didn't pay for itself in Mapquests's grand plans.

On the other hand, Mapquest's satellite photos weren't very good at plotting some of the area around Saratoga Springs, NY, and northern Vermont was missing. Google's new service seems to have those fixed, from a quick look around.

I live right next door to them. Its the Fashion Mall in Keystone At The Crossing.