"It strains the mind to think of any large numbers of people who might substitute a "let's play" video for actually playing the game themselves"
I was amazed the first time I saw my kid kid watching videos of people playing Minecraft. (Then Skyrim, then TF2, . . .) Hours and hours of it. Watching videos of other kids playing video games. My kid is not alone.
Watching my laptop delivery from China progress on Company A's website, I wondered "what kind of interesting things could be installed during the two days it appeared to be sitting in the Shanghai Airport?"
I'm nobody important, but it seems pretty easy for every government to divert and tamper with stuff. Too easy.
On the post: Who Needs SOPA? US Court Wipes Sites From The Internet For 'Infringement' Without Even Alerting Sites In Question
On the post: Judge Says Supreme Court Should Overturn Awful Surveillance Precedent, But Until It Does, He Has To Reject Case Against NSA
No judge is "constrained" by any existing precedent.
They may make a decision that will be overturned, but it is not like someone will come in and arrest them for their judicial opinions.
The "existing precedent" is, as Chief Asshole Roberts shows, just a cheap way to blow smoke up our asses.
On the post: Nintendo Has A Plan To Share Ad Revenue With YouTubers, But Nobody's Happy About It
It is a video game
I was amazed the first time I saw my kid kid watching videos of people playing Minecraft. (Then Skyrim, then TF2, . . .) Hours and hours of it. Watching videos of other kids playing video games. My kid is not alone.
It's a thing.
On the post: White House Accidentally Reveals CIA's Top Spy In Afghanistan
Almost hard-to-believe that of 6000 recipients of this information - none have revealed it.
Talk about an industry contained and controlled.
On the post: Do Personal Computers Come With NSA Surveillance Devices Built-In As Standard?
Stuck in Shanghai
I'm nobody important, but it seems pretty easy for every government to divert and tamper with stuff. Too easy.
On the post: Dangerous Ruling: EU Says Google Must Help People Disappear Stuff They Don't Like From The Internet
Individual rights are such an 18th Century idea.
On the post: Vicious Cycle: When Those Abused By Trademark Abuse Others With Trademark
"It's also quite likely that the marketing teams at Bacardi had no idea Levy and his whiskey brand even existed"
I can't imagine the marketing team at multi-Billion$ Bacardi not knowing every name of every booze on the planet.
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