...always seemed like a ridiculous method to deliver a flashlight to someone you don't like.

also, just do what they did in Edmonton, which is to just reduce the trigger limit from about 15 km/h over to between 5-10 km/h [or even less]. Magically, revenue doubled.

at least they didn't also include "with Windows Phone"...or make it ship only in brown...

It's just a Zune...

It doesn't sound like Google is being "forced". It sounds like Google found some companies willing to cough up a bunch of money to be promoted when the user searches for online music/video [not that Google Play will have to pay, but they needed another company to pay so Play could also be promoted, otherwise it's more of pushing their services over competitors].

both sides want to cut down on the little people complaining about being governed...which this just happens to cover...

Yes, we have to blow our budget on those fancy F35's...

I'm tall, blonde, have blue eyes, and both my parents emigrated from Germany. Does that count?

Yes, all efforts must be made to lengthen their lives, as the copyright on their music must not enter the public domain.

Quote from a tv show?

all of whom are just working to create lies for sales to sell more ad spaces to other companies.

Yeah, you have to pay $2 every time you launch an app that uses the D3D-to-OGL translator in WINE [capitalized due to it being an acronym...or possibly a synonym...maybe an acronym...some kind of nym].

Well, they already are doing it, as there is nobody providing oversight that will actually stop them from doing it in any meaningful way. They just want the laws changed so they don't take a PR hit every couple of weeks from these practices being revealed to the public.

well, they don't even need to do that. they could also tag your account with a variety of advertising keywords based on the messages/images you send and receive, and toss the archive.

"The issue was that he misrepresented what he was doing as original hardware and software development, lied blatently about it, and then when caught out doubling-down on the lies ."

That's just being a capitalist salesman.