Having turned in my receipts for the weekend this morning, I stopped back here to checkin with Argo again.

The latest word from the war of the bullies infuriated me. You'd think that after all these years of outrages, we'd be numb to this stuff by now. But for some reason, this latest one takes it to a new emotional level.

Threatening a kid into giving up his life savings. What crime did he commit? Did he download an illegally copied mp3? No. Did he host a file sharing server where music was copied? No. Did he promote, either implicitly or explicitly, the sharing of illegal material? No.

He wrote a generic search engine, which allowed people to find all types of files hosted on the student network. The horrors!

Why not just go after Google instead? Because it's easier to intimidate a kid who can't afford million dollar lawyers and doesn't want to spend months or years in court defending himself. So the mob can empty his bank account and get away clean.

We may not be able to stop this sort of madness, but at least we can do our best to protect our own. I donated the amount of one commission from one of yesterday's bigger sales to help recover his lost funds. Am I motivated by emotional, reactionary, impulse sympathy? Yes.

Am I going to call for a boycott of everything those bastards sell? Having tried such measures in the past, I wish I had the resolve, but honestly, when the next Marilyn Manson or Madonna album comes out, I know I'll be right in line with the next idiot.

So I do what I can to make up for it, and hope for the best.