zip drives killed the Syquest drives pretty quickly if I remember correctly. Was in printing at the time and you basically had to have both but a Syquest and a zip drive but zip won out pretty quick.

Any company that worked in any way with graphics in that period had Zip disks.

You sir are todays winner of "Anal Retentive Nerd of the Day" ...the scary part is that I remember all of those incarnations of the floppy.

I would believe that this project would not be able to come from a traditional publisher on the basis that a "traditional publisher" nowadays feels that a game is not able to survive without DRM. Behold the brave new world of independant publishing ( am i showing my optimism there?)

As a canadian, I think that you are being a little naive about "contributions", considering the reality that a leadership campaign can cost millions of dollars to run. Monetery donations are not the only donations and after all the vast majority of individuals in parliament are lawyers that have spent their careers creating and circumventing laws.

Take away their ability to use credit cards - problem goes away. Am I the only one who sees this?

I concur, but the fact is that American lawyers are arguing this which means that they are not able to do anything about it AFAIK. In turn if the lawyers are arguing about this it takes them away from other other pursuits, such as suing everybody and their neighbor. I see this as a bit of a circle jerk that will simply keep some lawyers busy for a while which in turn will help society as a whole. The more clueless lawyers that are discussing quantum physics the better in my opinion.