Difference to previous lawsuits is that here they're going after the American Auto Industry - one of America's sacred cows. Expect to see these shysters going home with million-dollar legal fees and their asses handed back to them on silver platters.

IIRC Williams went on to sink as much of TSR's money as possible into buying up the rights for the Buck Rogers RPG ... which flopped and sunk without a trace, crippling TSR's finances. Rather than invest in it to turn its declining fortunes around as she was supposed to she effectively asset stripped it - her family owned the Buck Rogers franchise rights...
All in all a classic carpetbagger move by Williams that everyone except Gygax fell for.

"Here's a free ice lolly. What's that, you found that I froze a turd inside it? Well you got it for free so you have no right to complain..."
Nice logic, man.

"Green light, go. Red light, stop. Green light, stop. Red light, GO!"

Dear Microsoft,
We notice you have a sales arm in our gloroius country. Therefore your entire company is subject to our jusrisdiction and we demand you hand over data on any computer in the imperialist pig-dog USA that is running any of your operating systems. We have special interest in computers held by the NSA, CIA, FBI and such agencies and would appreciate if you handed those over first - preferably within 24 hours.
Yours sincerely, KGB.

When the 800-lb gorilla in the room gestures at you to drop your pants the only choice you have is whether he breaks your arm first or not...

This isn't confined to America - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...
If a private citizen had done something like this it would prosecuted as Tampering with Evidence. But if the police do it, they get away with it...

"Our data trawling has been illegal all along like we were being told but ignored? Quick, pass some hastily drafted loophole-ridden over-reaching legislation so we can't be sued...

Anything you say to a police officer in the UK is considered evidence or a confession for the prosecution, but hearsay for the purposes of your defence.

It DOES depend on where the electrodes were attached to be fair...

It's to stop boy racers sitting at the lights reading the signals for the other stream or pedestrians and knowing when the lights are about to change so they can jump off the line the second their lights have gone amber. Used to cause a huge amount of accidents with people who were travelling in the other direction and speeding up to get through on the amber their way.

I have an IQ that repeatedly tested somewhere between 150-170. I crashed out of two universities, spent most of the 90's off my face one way or another and now work in IT support for a government department. High IQ doesn't always correlate to greater success - though it has helped me find a niche where I can slack more efficiently and still pull in a decent salary so I guess I'm not doing too bad.

I'm sure you can just look it up on Wikipedia.

The only ones to get rich will be the lawyers.
Who drafted all these laws in the first place...

When someone says "I'm rather offended by that" my instinctive response is to say "You're offended by THAT? Well you're gonna get majorly butthurt when I really get going, asshole."
"I'm offended by that" is very rarely used by someone who is actually hurt by something you've said, instead it's the rallying cry of a certain type of bottom-feeder who is too spineless to stand up for themselves so gets their jollies by claiming offence on other people's behalf.