Originally Posted by Dollarmansteve

correlation and causality are two different things. Reading about something on prisonplanet and understanding the reasons about why things happen are not the same.

You can read this article and take it at face value as "ruling for the RIAA will shut down the internet". Then in the future if "the world wide web is effectively shut down" you can claim "I knew this already because prisonplanet said so". However, I can assure you that the root cause(s) of the event would not simply be this court case, and therefore that prisonplanet "predicted" the outcome.

The responsibility to differentiate between correlations and causes is left to the individual, and sadly 90% of people lack the ability to make this distinction, fueling an irrational delusion that they possess real insight. I think it is a disease of the internet age - too much information provided to people who lack the fundamental ability to analyze it in a rational way.