Solving it the American way baby! Can't shoot at it? Aw. Throwing money at it doesn't help? Aw. Wait... revolutionary idea... let's deep fry it!!! *The suits come out of the conference room giving mental pats on the back to themselves*

Oh noes! Not the Kindle restricting meh puchases!

As you said, "here in the UK...". In the United States almost nobody has the option to change ISPs (much less changing for the 'better'). I'm in a Charter area (on the east coast of the U.S.) and you know what my options are? Dealing with a 100GB cap they implemented without my consent or... changing to dial up. There is no in between for me at all. Do I download songs? Absolutely 3-5MB per song. For video games we are talking 4GB - 50GB per game. Therefore, my chances are good that I can only download 2 games or so (on top of my normal bandwidth) each month. I say chance because there's no telling how big the game I want to download is. One of two things must happen: American ISPs need to get their acts together and lift speed and bandwidth caps like they have not been doing... or video game companies can just stick to shipping my PS3 and 360 discs to Gamestop, Amazon, and the like.

I won't lie; this being Slashdot, I am absolutely shocked! Shocked and appalled that a valid response is such as this is marked informative and not +5 Funny! Outrageous!

was Ubuntu when it first came out. It was nice, user friendly, faster than Windows, and didn't crash. Heaven on a hard drive. I no longer had to worry about what I could and couldn't do (like modifying the shell outside of Microsoft's set boundaries). Deleted Windows and never looked back. Since then I've tried various distros and the one I currently like is Arch. Think of it like slackware, but with an amazing package manager. It starts very minimalist, but that's the beauty of it; you can change it into whatever kind of distro you want and nothing is hidden from you (in regards to text and configuration files) unless you want GUIs. But hey, choices exist for a reason...

That's always bothered me too. It's like DNS (depending on usage on this word though).

Sorry for double posting. I failed to mention that their site would NOT let me view it even though I'm using the internet from a U.S. military base.

What's funny is I'm currently using an internet connection from a U.S. military base and I'm not using proxies or any other outside tool to view their site. So not only are they abusing a system that's existed long before they even considered it's existence, they're liars on top of it.

Am I the only one who read the headline and said MIT created a way to see dead people!? Of course it would be MIT...

Alright, I've read enough of your comments. The reason you won't get many (if ANY) downloads off of your cheap plugins is because as stated above it is "closed source" (really... plugging in closed source software on Slashdot?) and you're an untrusted source. Put the source code up or shut up... why do you want us to download 'YOUR' software so bad in the first place? Exactly... untrusted source with an untrusted answer. I have a hint: STOP ADVERTISING YOURSELF.

... over the rainbow.

Offhand I can say that the NFL's needs are FAR greater in respect to media needs during the Superbowl as opposed to the World Series, but just in case, I found a link in about 5 seconds on Google.

Yes, which claims a standard United States Government agreement which claims they own the computer, the data, your soul and anything else that may come in contact with it... but it also states "Forge.mil is currently in beta with limited operational availability. General availability for unclassified use is scheduled for Spring 2009." So, one could safely assume (at this point) that with the PKI Certification that's needed and the agreement they expect only DoD computers to be accessing it at the moment. However, at some point everything stated will be changed (or they'll change their mission from being 'open').

The software is open... not every strategic decision or case use in which the software will be used.

The reason for that is, you have to be in the DoD and you receive the cert by CaC (DoD ID cards which double as a smart card with your PKI certs and authentication information). This forces you to obtain the certs physically and in person at a DoD site (ie ID Center on a military base, etc.).