The "Winqual" certification for the Games for Windows logo can be fairly expensive. It also imposes rules on your game design, such as not being allowed to make the visible portion of the world 4:3 in shape ("The game must not stretch pixels or center a 4:3 render window"), which can make ports of classic games with naturally 4:3 playfields impossible. In addition, a game cannot use more than half the system's resources because it "must run in a new user session when it is already running in another session."

The PC CD-ROM SOFTWARE logo and its DVD successor can be used without needing to submit your game to this certification program.

Two things, one unrelated: The keys labeled Return and Enter on Mac keyboards are labeled Enter and Right Enter on Windows keyboards. So in a sense, Windows 2000 keyboards do lack a Return key, but they do have one with the same function.

And the other is related: Pressing Enter inserts a newline into the comment. But Slashdot comments are written in a subset of HTML, and one of Slashdot's post modes does not convert newlines into HTML line break elements. Furthermore, the modes have misleading names:

• "HTML Formatted": Do no translation at all apart from sanitization.
• "Plain Old Text": Translate line breaks and allow inline HTML, like PHP nl2br($post).
• "Extrans": Translate line breaks and escape all < signs, like PHP nl2br(htmlspecialchars($post)).
• "Code": Translate line breaks, escape < signs, and use monospace formatting, like PHP '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars($post).'</pre>'.

Because as one of the traditional safety valves, expiry acts as a check on the application of overly broad copyright. How many authors do you think the Shakespeare estate could sue? In addition, expiry limits the deadweight loss caused by exclusive rights in orphan works.

Only for those rich enough to emigrate from the United States and other countries with legislation analogous to the DMCA. See Universal v. Reimerdes.

I'm not referring to the Sam Smith case as much as the Thicke and Williams case. Mr. Gaye's heirs have sought an injunction against further exploitation of "Blurred Lines". I'm also referring to composers refusing to let their work be interpolated, and recording artists refusing to let their work be sampled, in new recordings. For example, one of the songs on the Bloodhound Gang album Use Your Fingers was intended to contain a sample of a song by The Cure, but Robert Smith denied sample clearance. And the version of "Pump Up the Volume" by MARRS heard in the United States is missing a few samples that couldn't be cleared for the U.S. market.

The reasoning on Weird Al's web site appears to be based on Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, which ruled that 2 Live Crew's "Pretty Woman" was a comment on Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" and therefore a permissible parody. Likewise, The Wind Done Gone was a comment on Gone with the Wind. But I don't see how "Word Crimes" is a comment on "Blurred Lines" in the same manner. It's just Mr. Yankovic airing his pet peeves related to poor grammar, usage, and mechanics on the part of Internet users in a snarky Schoolhouse Rock! manner.

My goalpost was movies since my first comment to this story.

Which DRM-free movie store are you talking about?

Which still means you need to re-buy every movie in your iTunes collection, especially those you bought in iTunes before Google Play and Amazon movie stores even existed.

Apple's iTunes Store sold 1 million videos by October 2005, and the UltraViolet system didn't come out until six years later. Apart from iTunes, what lawful download store for Hollywood movies were people using during this period?

Though lossless audio has reached enthusiast level, lossless video for home use is still far off.

Music yes, as iTunes stopped adding FairPlay digital restrictions management to purchased music six years ago. Movies and books, on the other hand, still had DRM last time I checked.

Republicans aren't ass holes; they're elephant holes. But it's not like there's a big difference anymore.

Replies to Anonymous Coward's comment point out laws that the government broke.

When judges fail to appreciate what the first Congress meant by "unreasonable search", where is the rule of law? And when lawsuits against government officials are dismissed because evidence of law violations falls under the "State Secrets Privilege", where is the rule of law?