This situation is more similar to you living in a house that is 50% open to the public. You then forget to lock the dividing door and are shocked when people wonder into the part where they are not supposed to be - even when it is not marked that THIS part of the house is not meant for the public.

Yeah, sorry about that.
From what I've read, the judge basically ruled that the jury couldn't say that EA made a derivative work, without the jury seeing the two games running side by side. So he didn't care about the source code, just the look of the games and ruled that the look was more important than anything else (such as the expert testimony).

But wasn't the ruling exactly the opposite of what you said? The judge said that because the jurors didn't see the appearance of the two games side by side they couldn't rule that EA reusing code. From what I've read there was nothing about source code in the ruling.

Does the expert opinion not count as evidence? If you had a vet testify that yes, CmdrTaco is a horse that likes to walk across keyboards, and the other side did nothing to refute that, why shouldn't the jury rule that CmdrTaco is a horse? Especially since the defense refused to present him to the jury to show that he is a human.

But if defense doesn't present any evidence, doesn't that make it an automatic win for the plaintiff under preponderance of evidence? After all, even someone just saying that he believes that they stole something from him is more then silence.

Wouldn't increasing pay also increase the number of things that the workers buy, increasing the profits of the companies? You know, trickle around economics instead of just trickle down.

But that could make the train derail and kill all 6.

And isn't that how it works now?

Don't you have to transfer your coins to coinbase first? So that transaction prevents you from paying them to anyone else.

Another good thing would be if the SEC actually punished the guys who break the rules, instead of mostly just making them give back some of the money they made.

The manager would still be making way more then everyone else. And if he was working more hours, he'd be making even more - the pay is per hour.

Why would you need to double everyone's pay? Why not, for example increase the assistant manager's pay to $25 and the general manager's to 40$. They still make quite a bit more then the burger flipper while any increases in the cost of living would be covered by their raise. They are not going to starve if they no longer make X times the amount their lowest paid employees make.

And there were plenty of copies floating around with that protection removed.

Yes, if only there were people working on removing DRM from games, sometimes before they were even officially released. But that would never happen.

Weren't there some big non-hidden power cables running in to keep the 'reactor' functioning? And the measurements of the power going in were controlled by the 'inventor'.