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Time is relevant. It should not be treated like a footnote in considering the importance of certain laws. If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, I think he would have used military force against Apple, or at the very least threatened Tim Cook to a duel.

To answer your question, the judges should cite their own judgement.

I've bought crappy but running cars before for $200 (outright, no loan). If I were you, I would spend all day today on craigslist for a little junk car that you can sleep in. Shoplift food from supermarkets that will fit in your pocket. Beg on the street for spare change. Clean your body in public restrooms. Try to find drunk women at night who will let you sleep over in exchange for sex (and conversely, if you're a woman, this whole homelessness problem is much easier).

That would be the American way. The Western European way is probably going to the welfare office and getting a 1000€ check.

Adblockers may use more than the URI, but it starts with the URI and if it does not match, then it does not block.

If a video file is served from cdn.example.com/video/?file=3w0rjwo, then have a DoubleClick ad serve from cdn.example.com/video/?file=0239fjad with phony HTTP headers including mime type.

Why doesn't Google et al provide a shim for web servers to proxy ads off their own domains, with the same URI routes as the actual content? That way, an adblocker would also prevent the content from being served. (Why waste your networking load on non-paying customers?)

The main obstacle is that this introduces a middleman---so Google et al should only offer this service to the BIG money-makers (like nytimes.com) until they can ship something secure. Adblocking "problem" solved.

WHY don't Ad companies do this? I can see this as an Apache/nginx module or middleware libraries for whatever web server is used, without having to change anything else. How long would this take for the army of 140 IQ Google codemonkeys…like 1 day lol?

Despite the temptation to bikeshed Amazon, I'd have to say this is quite justified. Amazon seemed TOO cheap for a lot of things. It was amazing they made any money at all. Now that they have a monopoly, they can stop with the freebies.