Aren't they "sort of" regulating themselves, tho? Didn't a lot of Wall Street types go broke, and a bunch of companies disappear?

The problem is that this self-regulation is not exactly the one we'd hope for... they'll fuck up the world before they're gone.

This law was passed in Mexico a few months ago. It's basically a failure because of all the fake IDs out there. There's very little preventing you from registering it to someone else's name too.

To send a message to the president Felipe Calderon, a lot of people registered using his personal data.

A few days ago, one of the phone companies admitted they had at least 12,000 cell phones registered to the president's name...

I can vouch for this. I learned to read english from american video game magazines in the 90's.

I think it worked, except now when I speak I use too many words like "Cowabunga!" and "Rad!"

Absolutely, the one big caveat of Steam is that you can't sell or even gift your games you don't use anymore.

I'd love for this to change. However I don't think this is up to Steam/Valve alone - Publishers surely would shun their platform if Valve allowed resales, are you kidding?

But in the meantime, it's just too convenient and not intrusive enough to warrant using Steam.

Maybe in the future it will change, but I wouldn't hold my breath...

I don't like this DRM business either, but Valve has been around more than 10 years, and the Steam platform for like 6 or 8 years. Honestly besides the rare internet outage I've not had any problems with them.

Valve is honestly the last great PC gaming company left, I support them whenever I can.

Hell, they're still supporting TF2 with patches and new content, 3 years after it was released.

Whoa, I've heard about the Bible promoting killing non virgins or something like that, but what's that about child sex and incest?

EA has very lenient DRM, I believe.

Also Ubisoft's past title, Prince of Persia, released without any copy protection to much fanfare. I imagine that was a disaster sales-wise, and now they'd rather have the DRM.

You must have huge mutant fingers because I've been using my Dell mini netbook for months and I love it. Supposedly the keyboard is about 90% of the size of a regular keyboard, and I have absolutely no problems typing anything on it.

Maybe other netbooks are smaller and have worse keyboards, but I quite like mine. I'm probably not going to buy an iPad, I already have a Kindle, netbook and regular computer. I like the idea, however.

The problem, my dear anonymous coward, is that we want entertainment, not art. If we get art along the entertainment, great!

But we don't expect to go to a scifi movie and have what might as well be 2 hours of David Lynch jerking off in front of the audience (an opinion that movie snobs might hate but in my mind that's pretty much all he does in his movies).

I don't claim to enjoy or even understand David Lynch's "art", but I can recognize when a movie based on a very awesome book is "crap".

Didn't Wikipedia run for a couple of years on less than 5 million dollars? I dunno how much they need right now since their donations seem private, but 66 million seems incredible for a free software.

I'm sorry, but other than the huge advantage that is all the plugins available for Firefox, Opera has always been lightyears ahead of any other browser's features.
http://operawiki.info/OperaInnovations
Tabbed browsing and Zooming into a webpage are only the two that seem most important and were introduced by Opera, but they have always been incredibly innovative, much more so than Firefox. Yet there's not a big developer following, probably because it is not open source like FF, that's Opera's weakest part I guess, but as a browser, I love it.

If that were true, Whales would be our newly welcomed overlords. I think the article is crap.

I agree with you, but what bothers me is that we as gamers aren't even giving EA a chance to develop this new DLC market. So far they haven't screwed anyone, specially with Rock Band. Rock Band 2 had 84 songs and an extra 20 free downloadable songs, along with a crapload of new stuff over the first one (specially like the drum trainer).

And by the way, I think the next big thing to develop in digital sales is indeed lending of content. Maybe erase a game from my hard drive while my friend plays it, hell he can even pay a reduced price or something, and it's temporarily unavailable on my xbox, I'd be fine with that.

Aren't Kindle books shareable between any device that has the Kindle app installed?

I have a couple of Kindles and they share any books I buy (registered to the same person), although I havent tried to buy a book for the iPhone app, isn't it shared there too?