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Dummy meaning it is a facade put up by some vested interests. To my mind there is no way a genuine company can get this done without a legal (or should I say, illegal) backdoor.

"I worried more about piracy and it almost spoils everyone in the movie industry" ... only a man of such eloquence is capable of such otherwise impossible tasks ...

It is a John Doe order being enforced because some big movie is being released and they don't want it to be pirated. Those of us who use Vimeo for leisure or work are evidently lesser citizens ...

The site is quite ridiculous, so you are probably right about it being some dummy company.

Quoting: 1. "Readers of the 400-something page cyberpunk-inspired rant about technology and its interfaces in our everyday lives will find QR-codes placed on every single page of the book. Quite fitting to the book’s main theme, the digital solution of Karmamedia enables readers to interact with the printed material through these codes, via their smartphones."

2. "Called social book, as it also allows users to scan the codes and leave comments linked to the individual pages. Comments can be added, just as someone would comment on a friend’s Facebook status or blog entry."

In a way, yes. It is an evolved relationship. Middlemen started out as traders who acted as the exchange mechanism, for example between farmer bodies and the consumers. Over time they have grown in strength and sadly in autonomy. Middlemen bodies exert huge influence over retail prices of goods in India.

There is tons to do even if the UID is successfully rolled out through out the country. First and foremost would be to get all government services to willingly accept the UID as the standard scheme ... I know that sounds ironic but such is the life in India ...

Forcing the middlemen to come up with new ways of cheating the system would be a huge step-up from the status quo. Presently they don't even need to think!

This is really good information. We did do some level of usability testing but we still rely on content for important messaging.

It will probably only be clear with time if this is leading into a bubble or is it just a case of the unsustainable ones losing the race in a bid to capture the rising online market.

Well, in such a large universe everything is too far away.

Inter-planetary travel is probably to big a problem to say that if not for our consumerism habits getting in the way we would have colonized some other planet already.

From the site: "No exercises" "Lose weight in a homeopathic way with no side-effects"

Massive, MASSIVE, red flag!

Co-incidence maybe? It is interesting to see this but maybe it wasn't a conscious choice so much as we being used to seeing things that follow such a ratio.