All theft is crime, but that doesn't make all crime theft. Theft is the unlawful deprivation of property. When a song, or a game, or a show or a movie or any other copyrighted data is illegally downloaded, no deprivation occurs, thus no theft occurs. There is still a crime committed, and that crime is copyright infringement, not theft.

Yes, definitions DO matter.

...except that they haven't done anything at all. There are just a few mumbles of 'concern' over something their voter-base is likely to disapprove of. I don't see that making a difference any-time soon.

It may not have occurred to you, but some people like to consider themselves as more than the some of their hormones. Not every is choking at the bit to jump into bed with the first person who says ok.

What's the bet the most immediate target is Spain, for the cyber-crime of not enforcing US copyright law?

A lot of people here apparently haven't bothered to read even the summary, and as such are assuming we took a stand and kicked this guy out of office. This isn't true. Michael Atkinson won the election easily, and then announced he wouldn't be taking the job anyway, instead moving to a back-bench position in the Labour government to retire in 2014.

Yes, the arsehole is going, but no, we didn't beat him. The vast majority of voters, as always, don't know or care about these issues, so the battle is far from won.

For the record, his attitude towards video games aren't the only reason we want to be rid of him. The man has a history of saying stupid things in an an official capacity that come back to bite him. He accused a blogger of being a non-existent sock puppet for Liberal party criticism, and he lied about a bikie gang supposedly barbecuing a cat to threaten him. I'm sure you all remember him banning anonymous political speech in the lead up to the recent elections as well...

Unfortunately this only works with certain credit cards - when I tried this my visa debit card was rejected by steam for wrong location data.

Dark Sector was banned? I got it for free on the coverdisc of PC Powerplay (an Australian Gaming Magazine).

Sounds to me like a real smooth crimson.

Really? Do you live in some wonderful happy secret land, or do you just live with your head in the clouds? In my experience, most people live by greedy impulse and make behavioural decisions based on the the perceived chance of avoiding unwanted consequences for their actions.

...If your government is trustworthy, which is why it should never happen.

My beef with e-books are the limited catalogues. I'm yet to find a store that has all of the Discworld series for example. (Amazon might, but they limit available books geographically and not all are present in the Australian store.) If I can find a reliable store with decent prices, a full catalogue and no Amazon style ability to retroactively disable my books, I'll probably donate almost all of my current books to the library and switch completely to e-books.

I'd argue that the vaccine shouldn't be pulled either, if the side-effect had a sufficiently low rate of occurrence, and immunisation acts as promised.

When I was 5 years old, a live Polio vaccine activated a genetic disposition to Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, ultimately leading me to have chronic Ankylosing Spondylitis. The disease has had a strongly negative effect on my quality of life, causing me at various points in my life to be wheelchair bound or bed-ridden. Despite this, actually having caught Polio would have made life far worse than it is now.

Taking a vaccine is a risk, but risks are inherent to all things in life. When you cross the street, you risk being hit by a car. Whenever you eat, drink or breathe you risk infection from any number of random diseases. But when the benefits are high enough, and the risks small enough, it's worth doing anyway. Educate people, and let them make there own choice maybe, but don't outright ban the shots.

When will they learn, correlation does not imply... wait, this article favours computers? IT MUST BE TRUE!!

Day one, Activision unexpectedly axes the heads of the studio that created CoD. Day Two, Activision announces that it is whoring out the IP for every last dollar ala Halo.

Coincidence? I think not.

I thought most basements came with furnaces? You should complain to your parents!