>>I keep hearing fans can do it better but virtually everything I've seen is poorly written, silly acting and poor production values. Portal, the game and the independent movie.

Not necessarily. The police chief is a public figure, which means he also has to prove that the defamation was also accompanied by malice. That is notoriously difficult to do in a court of law.

The other question is who is going to pay for the legal fees. If I was a citizen I would seriously question this. In addition most lawyers won't take defamation suits on contingency because of the small settlements usually gained.

All in all I suspect that this is mostly an effort to intimidate.

The guy should be sacked.

I'm sorry, but can you explain what your sig means tepples? Is it meant to imply a comparison to other countries or to point out existing solutions?

How true. My ignorance is honest; their ignorance is derived from knowing just enough to get themselves into trouble. The older I get, the more I realize that what I was "taught" in higher education was based on shaky or uncertain principles and I had to accept that what I actually know may not be entirely true or accurate at any time, ever.

I dont recall the specifics, but wasn't there another case a while back involving whether it was child pornography when it was a drawing of a child (ie completely fabricated)? This would be the closest thing to a precedent I can think of.

Market saturation?

I can get almost every movie I want (older titles) borrowed, used, or from the library. VHS tapes wear out much faster than DVDs, and even when a DVD gets scratched, a little polishing compound will bring it back. I saw some DVDs at Staples that would self destruct after 48 hours. For $0.25 - $0.99 I might have tried one, but the titles were terrible and they wanted $5.00 each. No thank you.

A lot of the online content was never available on DVD because it didn't have enough audience to justify a pressing. Online will take over because it offers relatively instant gratification, a big feature that DVD and Blu-ray can't match. People like getting what they want.

While I don't cheer the information, the frankness impresses me.

Thus, leading to several seconds of confusion on my part ... (when did Blizzard team up with Disney? Is it April Fool's already? etc. ... )