You have to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky? The idea behind this law change is that if a private citizen leaves his wlan open, is it legal to use it? Previously it was not and now it will be. Thing is that there is no way for the user know if the wlan is left open on purpose or not. If a city provides a wlan for tourists, there usually is a sign that it is open and free to use. There are open hot spots for wi-fi all over the country. Almost every library has one and some McDonalds and also some cities give one out to their citizens and tourists.

When Valve created Steam, they did it because there was no system for distributing games over internet and everyone said that the technology is 5-10 years in the future, not now. So we have had Steam now for several years and it's the most used games distribution system over internet.

What comes to the game updating, internet connection speeds get faster. PC's get faster. Systems are online more and more daily so if everything is automatic and game gets a patch, it's not a very long waiting period when you have that downloaded. Of course it depends from your own internet connection.

Some of these digital distributing services will either go down or will be bought by another but the faster these things start working together and putting up more games into the catalogs, the less issues there will be in the future.

Make that happen and i'll high five you. I dare you.

This is not a case where a company is doing poorly not it is Nokia's duty really to pursue this matter. However, it's in their best interests as if you do not defend your patents, you could lose them completely.

Nokia is Bigger. They have more employees because they do a hell of a lot more things than just design stuff and marketing. They have their own factories in which the phones are built. Apple just gives money to some chinese company to make their own iPhone and puts a hefty pricetag on the top. It's much easier to do 1 phone than 1+49 others. Nokia could sell out their factories and limit their company's agenda to management, R&D and marketing but that would be just stupid at the scale which they are now. They controll everything from top to bottom, Apple has control over only the things that are on top. Apple is far from the leading top from mobile phones and has a lot to learn.

Why would Apple would even want to buy Nokia? It's not like there's 50,1% of shares free out there on the market, waiting for someone to buy them off. Even hostile takeover isn't possible.

Well, think of it this way:

You invent something, patent it and you can license your invention to others and thus gain money. If you do not have chances to do a patent, as soon as you publish what you did, others will copy your invention and you actually lose more money than you could have gained in the first place.

This here actually encourages people to do something that they can get paid from. Without patents, you can still be excited but as soon as the thing goes out of the pipeline, your out of the game. Others step in and thats not fun.

Does Apple really think they can do a mobile phone to the market in few years without violating any of Nokia's iventions done in the past 20 years that are patented? They think they do but reality is different. This is just Apple's response to get better negotiation grounds and with luck, they get a Judge who has Apple laptop to the case. Only then Apple has chances to win 1 round but only lose at the end at the higher court level.

Did they really think that every game developer would do censored version for their country if they ban the original? Now that someone said no, they are amazed and already are turning the table over the past decisions.

Seems to me that EA tries to justificate DLC with comments like this and easy money for them. A new game costs atleast 50 bucks, sometimes even 60 on the PC. Naturally the same game is 10 bucks or more expensive on console (whatever is reason for that anyway??). This means that DLC can be 10-30 bucks each so there's around 80 bucks or more spent on _one_ game, that was poorly and too fast made in the first place, thus lacked the content that should have been in the game at the first place. That content is now sold as DLC, but the price is over half higher than it should have been.

What used to be 1 game in the past, is now over a half of 1 game, 1-2 DLC content make it full game and players do the testing for it upon release of the original. Keep the game alive for few years with DLC while making the sequel and then milk out the money again. Nice business model. I wish i had a game company.