Right now, publishers of video games have the power to make Twitch irrelevant by sending notices of claimed infringement pursuant to OCILLA regarding videos of video games whose copyright the publisher owns. If Comcast can convince publishers to forbid Twitch streaming of their games, especially games that are adaptations of films and series produced by Comcast's NBCUniversal division, Amazon will have less leverage. I wonder whether WB Games would be willing to do the same as a favor for the cable company that Time Warner used to own.

My cousin's phone is a Samsung Galaxy S Captivate. It's one of the few Android devices that hide the Unknown sources checkbox from the user, which was AT&T's standard practice for about the first year that it offered Android phones. This means step 1 of the standard installation instructions will not work.

"You appear to be using an ad blocker. To continue, please whitelist this site. Here are the whitelist instructions for the major ad blockers. To view this article without ads, please subscribe." What do you plan to do once this behavior becomes common? If you say "ad blocker blocker blocker", that has been tried, and it uses as much of your battery and monthly data quota as just displaying the ad.

So how should smaller producers of shows go about negotiating with Comcast to get their shows added to cap-free in-house streaming?

Spell check changed Comcast to Combat. Telling?

Yet you presumably subscribe to home Internet access to view UGC and sites with ads. And people subscribe to VOD services such as Netflix to view 90 minute toy ads such as The Wizard.

The disenfranchisement of hobbyists, the assumption that everything must be a "business idea", is part of the problem. Would you still be calling it cheap if it were $5000 plus a lease on a dedicated office, as it has been for several other platforms?

I imagine that Slashdot users tend to be attracted to technical puzzles. Fewer of us are attracted to business puzzles, especially because of their frequent connection to the birth lottery (that is, inherited wealth) and the spoils of past anticompetitive behavior.

The term "hacking" ascribes unwarranted malicious intent to the developers of MozStumbler. How should the developers of applications like MozStumbler "really try[] hard to work around the restrictions" in your opinion?

I don't see how a radio station in the United States can steam over the Internet using exclusively free software. Apple iOS devices play only MPEG codecs subject to royalty-bearing patents, not any free lossy codecs. And HD Radio in the United States uses an iBiquity codec parts of which are patented and parts of which are trade secrets.

Spell check turned iBiquity into Iniquity. Telling?

I earn an hourly wage. Perhaps the disagreement is over whether recording artists should continue to rest on laurels while collecting royalties or whether they should be paid for their time like the rest of us.

I was under the impression that it was unwise to copy Oracle because of copyright issues.

And the disadvantage that upgrading from a dumb phone to a smart phone may inflate your cellular bill by $300 per year or more. One may have to upgrade from $7/mo low-minutes voice-only service to $35/mo voice and data service if the CDMA2000 carrier refuses to activate voice-only service on a smart phone or the GSM carrier exercises a provision in the boilerplate terms of service to automatically add a data plan the subscriber's voice-only SIM.

If you have to buy a device locked to a particular prepaid carrier, you could always carry it alongside your existing dumb phone, just as people who couldn't afford an iPhone used to carry a dumb phone and an iPod touch. Use the phone to make calls and the $20 PDA to read books.

True, the NFL owns the right to footage of NFL games. But at least there isn't a "football company" that can shut down entire leagues under some sort of exclusive right. With e-sports, on the other hand, a video game's publisher can use copyright to take down a league's streams if it doesn't like the direction the league is taking.

I agree that adding an anthropomorphic rabbit would be humorously apropos, but it might attract parts of the furry fandom that Idthesda might not be interested in serving.

People with a Surface tablet* or a Lumia phone are more likely to use IE because there's no Firefox on Windows RT or Windows Phone. And IE has richer Group Policy support if that's your thing.

* Other than Surface Pro

Then where's the free upgrade for an Android 2.x device? Chrome requires Android 4.