Have you seen a current generation mobile phone that didn't violate one of their design patents?

Wouldn't that be called... Windows 7

What makes you think that's allowed? I'm sorry, but you have to troll for one side or the other in order to participate in the global warming discussion. That's one of the rules, as far as I can tell.

I'm sorry, but intelligence has no place in a debate about gun control.

No, piracy doesn't take away that choice. You never really had it in the first place. Copyright only gives the illusion of control over your work. Even following copyright, there are things people can do with your work that you have no say over. The only way to keep your choice, is to not distribute your work.

Good for you. But that's got nothing to do with piracy.

Welcome to the real world. Once you publish/release your work, you've lost control. The only way you can keep absolute control/choice over what happens to your work, is to never publish it.

Copyright does not exist to guarantee control.

Most of them.

Based on that I assume you view Google as being just as guilty as TPB?

I'm sorry to hear that, but it still has nothing to do with "stealing".

Isn't that because what id develops these days are engines that other people use to make games? Where do they make the majority of their money... game sales, or engine licensing?

You mean the Army Public Health Command study that was paid for by the TSA and conducted in TSA labs? Is that your definition of a "third-party" test?

I thought Rage was meant to be a demo of their new engine. The point of it was to show off the engine, not necessarily show off the "game" itself.

I assume the "chilling" part is that the guidelines were even necessary to begin with.

But never stated specifically who they were from.

See my reply to your other reply (which didn't answer the question).