No, the problem is that if other people are selling, your optimal way to make money is to sell first but slightly before they do.
The real problem with the markets is that the way you make money on them is to do the same as everyone else, just faster
This sort of thing happens quite a lot in the UK, it's one of the more common outcomes to civil libel cases in my experience. (I heard of something like this happening to someone locally, who made a statement that was found to be libellous, and was forced to take out advertisements to retract it.) The judge actually discussed "publicity orders" in the ruling, and pointed out that the laws in question expressly suggested them as part of the typical punishment when there had been infringement (although not the opposite situation, for when there hadn't been, and the judge spends quite some time talking about that as a result).
Compulsory advertisements are also quite common more generally in the UK (although more usually they aren't forced by a court order, but rather part of seeking permission to do something; it's quite common for people who want to build a new building to advertise the fact beforehand, for instance, as part of seeking planning permission, so that people have a chance to object). It's even reached the points where many major papers have a dedicated section for legal notices, although the court-ordered version has to be rather more prominent.
Oh, and apparently the judge owns an iPad, although he said that it was irrelevant because he was comparing the Galaxy Tab to Apple's design registrations, rather than to the product Apple actually put on sale. So unless he dislikes the way it works or something, I doubt he has a particular hatred of Apple.
Unity Dash is what Unity (Ubuntu's default window manager) uses as a start menu substitute/replacement: it's basically a set of specialised search engines (one for applications, one for files, one for videos, etc.). They search within your computer, but also into repositories (so you can search for a program you don't have installed and will be given the option to install it. The individual search engines are referred to as lenses and scopes; there's some sort of technical difference that most people don't care about.
The controversy is about the addition of a new search engine to the Unity Dash that searches Amazon (and, by implication, sends Amazon your search terms). Part of the issue is that the default lens/scope, "Home", just aggregates the results from all the others, so if you're trying to start a program, or open a file with a particular name, Amazon will indirectly learn the fact that you're doing that. Now, they might not care, but presumably they record the data, and the issue is that they might either do something with it themselves, sell it to someone else, or provide it to governments on request.
You can easily work around this simply by uninstalling the Amazon lens/scope; part of the argument is centered around the fact (and the fact that it's installed by default, so this is an opt-out not an opt-in).
Perhaps not, due to the existence of "respawning" in such games (basically, automatically resurrecting a short time after death, typically at a penalty that's significant but not crippling). The virtual pandemic can sustain itself effectively infinitely, as people respawning can catch the corruption again. On the other hand, if everyone is killed instantly as a one-off event, they'll all respawn again some time later; inconvenient but hardly game-ruining. (The problem is more if people do it over and over again.)
Interestingly, one possible cure for a widespread pandemic in an MMO would be the simultaneous death (and subsequent respawn) of everyone involved.
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