Don't forget, adding insult to injury, WiiWare games are inextricably linked to the system that downloaded them. If anything ever happens to that system, those games are gone forever.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to contact the FBI about some naked cartoon images that might not be of legal age.

I was positive this article was going to be about Bethesda games.

The Tony Hawk Pro Skater games were always developed by Neversoft. Neversoft was acquired by Activision in 1999.

And if you don't actively attempt to defend your trademarks... you can lose them.

I always hear fanboys trot this one out when a company stomps a fanmade project into the ground. But does it have any real merit? I'm not familiar with trademark law at all, but it seems fishy to me that you can legally own the rights to a property you developed, and then lose those rights to another party -- who would have no legal claim to said property otherwise -- simply because you didn't attack them with lawyers at every opportunity.

Can someone cite a case of this actually happening?

You obviously don't understand the difference between a game like DDR, where your input has no audible counterpart, and one like IIDX, where it does. I'd explain it, but you seem to be rather content in your ignorance. Enjoy.

He shouldn't have referenced "BPM" because it's not really accurate, but by "500 BPM," he's talking about the rate at which the notes are falling down the screen. Many people take advantage of Hi-speed settings which allow you to increase this rate, thus decreasing the total number of notes your brain has to process at any given time. So a 125BPM song at Hi-speed 4 scrolls the notes at a rate of "500BPM." The actual beats per minute remain the same, though, obviously.

DDR != any rhythm/timing based game. For example, early IIDX and Pop'n Music, pre-timing adjustment settings, are more or less unplayable on modern TVs. You're actually "building" the songs -- constructing them note by note -- as the basic framework plays on. Try doing that with terrible lag, it ain't pretty. In short, this:

"...any rhythm/timing based game will be perfectly fine with a fair amount of lag so long as the lag is consistent."

is completely false.

Agreed. Now tell me how I'm supposed to fix it when the fat retarded hypocrite reactionists who fully support these kinds of rulings outnumber me 100 to 1. They are The People. At least in the US.

It's cool if I forcibly strip-search a 13 year-old girl as long as I'm a school official working on "official business." I can't be held accountable.

But if that same girl willingly texts me a cellphone pic of herself in a bikini, I'm looking at time in hard prison and branded a sex offender for life.

Seems perfectly logical to me.