Except that Microsoft never had a monopoly on either music players or music downloads, so there would be no case to answer here. And neither did Apple. There's always been plenty of viable non-Apple choice in the digital music marketplace. And I suspect the fact that the iPod and iTunes started up at the same time, locked to each other, will go a long way to exonerating them - they didn't suddenly decide to use an established monopoly in one area as a foothold to gain a monopoly in the other. They started up two inextricably linked services, and if they gained a monopoly (which I do not believe the did) then they gained both togther as a package deal. Which, I suspect (IANAL), is probably not anti-trust.

What plaything can you offer me today?

They have control over any company that wants to do business in the EU. They can't directly break them up, but they can give them an ultimatum - "form a separate company to run your EU search business, or we will ban you from doing business within the EU". Or something like that. My example is probably overly simplistic and naive as I'm not an expert on international trade law, but just because they are incorporated in the US does not render the EU entirely toothless.

Apple don't have a monopoly, so they can't be accused of using one monopoly to gain another.

Also: Trip Advisor bad review 'fine' scrapped by Blackpool hotel

They're shutting down a feature that one campaign used to spread their message - and this is influencing? Surely it's stopping an influence?

Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews

I backed at the £750 level, the top reward at that tier is an invite to the launch party this Saturday. As well as that you get access to the design descussion forum, the alpha and beta stages, a bunch of naming rights (system, planet, station, NPCs, etc.), and a few extra starting options in the game.

Why is it unbelievable? You will get the product when it is released, presumably that's the level that you backed it at. They just don't want to give stuff away for free that others have paid for.

DB has said that they will release the galaxy server data in the event that they have to take the servers offline, so that the game will still be playable in another 30 years' time even if they go down the tubes.

If they called it "Windows", do you think they would last a nanosecond before the orbital lawyers opened fire?

Because their immune systems have got used to the pathogen, and ours haven't? We carry plenty of diseases that our ancestors would have died of, but we've evolved to survive them. There's no silver bullet here.

How come? Has the Internet Archive negotiated permission with all the copyright holders for all these games?

That's just nonsense. You're saying "If you disagree with the system, then do not do anything to change it".

There are "planets". 8 of them.
Then, there are a bunch of "dwarf planets" - Pluto, Ceres, Eris, etc.
"Minor planets" - there are thousands, millions, I'm not sure, but a lot of these.
"Exoplanets", let's divide these into two categories - system exoplanets, that orbit a star like our planets, dwarf planets, and minor planets, and systemless exoplanets that do not orbit a star.
These are all different kinds of planet. In astronomical terminology, the word "planet" by itself is reserved for the Big Eight, but all these other things are a kind of planet.