Passenger: Excuse me, stewardess?

Stewardess: Yes, sir?

Passenger: It appears this fatass is preparing to seat herself beside me. Surely not everyone paid the $20 anti-fatass surcharge?

Stewardess: Oh, you're right sir, my apologies. Pardon me ma'am, would you please remove your bag from the overhead storage and come with me?

Proceeding towards the back of the plane...

Passenger 2: No.. NO! WAIT! I HAVE 20 DOLLARS IN MY WALLET! THIS SEAT'S TAKEN! THE LEFT PHALANGES IS MISSING! I'M ON THE WRONG FLIGHT! NOOOOOO!!!!

Passenger 2 becomes locked into place(hell) by the conquering fatass, all hope is lost.

If only to provide comedy, I think the system would work. I would gladly pay $20 to reserve comfort, insult fatties, and watch Passenger 2 and his futile struggle.

AT&T never checks to see if my torrent traffic is legal. I can't participate in the Star Trek MMO beta because the only way to reliably get the client, without slamming the beta's patch servers, is using a torrent. I'd rant about how frustrating this all is, but they're about to disconnect me again for two minutes until I stop trying to not steal a game I was invited to play.

At first when I read the title, I thought mainly the same thing. "Oh great, now there are going to be gigantic nasty farms of these beetles in order to fill every car with cheap, organic antifreeze."

The image was so horrifying... I can't think of a better place to be tortured to death than under a pile of Alaskan beetles in a beetle farm. Maybe it will happen in Saw 31.

Good point, this is why a lot of titles don't make it to the Wii right now, and also why a lot of Wii titles don't make it to other consoles.

But, unlike the Wii which only has the OPTION of using Gamecube controllers for normal games, the PS3 and 360 will have the STANDARD of using controllers for games after their evolved control releases. This is different from the Wii because not every Wii owner, and Nintendo intended it to be this way, owned a Gamecube previously, so not every Wii owner has alternatives to the Wiimote. 100% of PS3 and 360 owners will have alternatives, and while that % may slowly drop, most new-comers will still be picking up bundled consoles which will include a normal controller and thus still have alternative control schemes which developers will tap into when continuing to release cross-platform titles.

So while we're obviously going to see a drop in cross-platform titles, it will be small and probably not enough of a thorn in anyone's side to have a PS3 owner buy a 360 or a 360 owner buy a PS3 unless they already intended to. And even if somebody doesn't like the direction Sony and MS are going now with these new controller designs which will open up new worlds of gaming for many people, they've got to appreciate the fact that this won't totally change game design.

People trying to get rid of the pirate bay act as if removing a tool for sharing will put an end to the desire to share that drives the ability to find new tools to do it.