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Professor Michael Geist has just tweeted -- quite correctly -- that: "According to the US, over 4.3 billion people live in countries with intellectual property laws worthy of complaint. Many of the countries are poor. The US primary issue for them is demand for stronger patent protection for pharmaceutical drugs."
They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it