Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I finally got a new laptop with a lone USB 3.0 port. I'm now looking at getting a USB 3.0 hub with a power adapter so I can use both of my USB 3.0 hard drives at faster speeds. I've read lots of horror stories where some hubs either don't come with power adapters -- and as a consequence the portable drives don't work with them properly -- or they are designed poorly which results in USB 2.0 speeds. Or, the hard drives keep getting disconnected. Do your readers have any suggestions or experience using USB 3.0 hubs? Thanks!"
Well, in a way, this whole thing isn't much different from the retail space, where the retailers have to pay for security tags, systems, training, special cases, etc., and the expenses are passed into the cost of the goods for the people who actually pay for them. Nothing in that regard has changed; thieves always make the honest people suffer. People who are determine to steal don't care about the effect that it has on everyone else. Ages ago, I arrested many people stealing CDs. Every single one of them, every one, offered to pay for the item when they were caught, because every single one of them had enough money to pay for it in their pocket. But they figured if they stole it, they could have that money to spend for other, harder to steal things. That has remained the same too it seems.
What I find discouraging is that people who try to say stealing is okay never have the ability to intelligently debate their viewpoints and counter any of the points I addressed. Resorting to name-calling and saying it's 'cool' or that record companies are greedy (as opposed to the companies that made just about every product you ate, watched, wore, and/or used today) are hardly legitimate reasons to justify stealing. Did you steal your car because those car executives are so overpaid, and there are so many middlemen your car price has to subsidize? If you did, do you think the executive would suffer, or do you think someone somewhere down the totem pole would lose their job and suffer instead?
It's not a victimless crime; if nothing else, the music itself suffers. My thinking in why music stinks so much now is because it's no longer a business that people with the passion for it want to be in, or can afford to be in. Maybe that just leaves a bunch of schmucks who sit around trying to make new DRM products every other week; instead of people focusing on discovering and promoting talent. It's not about the quality and love of the music anymore, it's about how many 'gigs' you've got... most of which you'll never bother to listen to... and that speaks volumes.