If "elsewhere" also requires reputation, how does a user brand new to file sharing in general obtain his first such files? To compete with the ease of use of Popcorn Time, there has to be a way to bootstrap a new user.

Do lab mice even get names? Or is it just the mice on the "outside", like the fictional Elizabeth Brisby?

I'm interested in how this plays out "reputation based access to files" plays out in practice. How does a new user gain enough reputation to begin to participate?

Someone would have cable Internet because dial-up is unusably slow, fiber to the home is unavailable in his location, DSL is either of the above, satellite and cellular are cost prohibitive with their $5-$10 per GB quota, and moving is also cost prohibitive. Someone would have cable TV if the double play from the local cable company is cheaper than Internet service alone.

The other major providers of multichannel subscription television are DirecTV and Dish Network.

They bundled one, an insecure one. It provides a false sense of security in the same sense that a self-signed HTTPS certificate provides a false sense of security.

If you "sign in with your Google account" on some website, you're using OpenID Connect. This takes you to a Google page, you give your password to Google, and then Google sends an OAuth 2 token representing your account back to the relying party and redirects you to the relying party's website. The relying party never sees your Google password.

Yes they will. So long as Internet Explorer and Edge are both shipped as part of Windows, you'll get "Why does buttbook look different when I click on this E vs. this E?"

"Scrambled" can also mean reversibly encrypted, as in the Content Scrambling System used with DVD Video.

Then why isn't Chrome's list of saved non-Google passwords encrypted in a way that only Chrome can decrypt, such as with a key derived from the user's Google account password?

Which are orthogonal. It's possible to have a long-form touch-driven game or a short-form gamepad-driven game.

The difference that before OUYA's Kickstarter campaign, it was even harder for a new developer to get a TV-oriented game published on one of those consoles. This was leading to a trend of risk-averse sameness among AAA games. The campaign's momentum gave Sony and Microsoft a kick in the pants to get their policies revised for the next generation.

I was referring to the months between the Kickstarter campaign and the release. These were the months when the console makers were scrambling to react: "If we don't revise our contracts to attract smaller developers with promising prototypes, we'll lose business to OUYA as gamers grow tired of the AAA sameness trend."

Agreed. I understand that Mr. Pelloni is a counterexample in many ways, and I've tried to learn from his mistakes. But his was the highest profile rejection, the one that may have planted the seed for OUYA. Mostly I was seeking others' input on what should happen at the "We cut our day jobs back to part time so we could produce a working game, we have videos of our prototype on YouTube, and people are asking where to get it" stage of my business plan. OUYA's answer was "Port it to Android and release on our platform." The change in major consoles' policies around the start of the eighth generation makes this more practical there as well, but this change might not have happened had a challenger not approached.

So instead of the OUYA package, which combination of Android stick and controller do you recommend for around $100?

I looked at the product, and it doesn't appear to have any face buttons on it, unlike other Android tablets such as the Archos GamePad and various JXD gaming tablets. How do you do a reliable directional control and jump and fire controls for a game like Mega Man without buttons? I tried the on-screen controls of the free subset of Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure on my Nexus 7 (2012) tablet, and I kept missing jumps because my thumbs kept drifting from the area where the controls were. (The game worked once I paired an external Bluetooth keyboard.)

Would the console makers be as open to indies as they are today if OUYA had never shipped? Before OUYA gained momentum on Kickstarter, Nintendo still had ban on home offices in the developer requirements it posted on WarioWorld.com. This provision caused problems for Robert Pelloni's company when he wanted to bring Bob's Game to Nintendo DS because the company was operating out of an office in Pelloni's home. And before OUYA gained momentum on Kickstarter, Microsoft was going to require indie developers on Xbox One to work through an established publisher big enough to get retail discs into Walmart. OUYA showed that demand for smaller scale games on television monitors existed.