How does that disagree with what I said? That sounds exactly like an amalgamation of anonymous people from all over the place.

Which doesn't make any sense in this context, given that EA is both the development house and the publisher.

... and now they get none of it (from me.)

Are you stupid, or have you just been living under a rock?

That does make sense for digital distribution, but in that case it's a copout for building infrastructure to handle the distribution.

However, in this case it's merely a case of continuing the tradition commonly seen with physical distribution (which attracts the same scorn).

The primary difference is that theft implies you're taking something away, when the most likely reality is that they are just continuing to get what they were never going to get (for whatever reason - because you can, because you disagree with the drm, whatever)

Yes, both are wrong. But there are vastly different levels of wrong, and in this case there's not a small difference in level. You should at least acknowledge that, even if you don't believe it excuses the behavior.

Well, unless you're one of those crazies who thinks jaywalkers deserve prison sentences - but I don't think you are.

Well, I'll certainly agree to that.

Theif? I produce!

And yes, it does indeed suck a whole bag of dicks. The page title is not sarcasm. 99% of what is actually on my webserver is not globally visible and indexing does not work. It's a glorified dropbox. Sure, I used to have a blog - but it went away when I got sick of fighting with security vulnerabilities and realized I didn't really have much to say on it. I put things on it, then link to them. See? That's you, right there!

I'm not really sure what network and OS security has to do with application security?

95% of the codebase is the secret bug-generator. They just made sure not to pull down that external repository.

Is that what they implemented in the recent Star Trek movies?

Lens Flair: Using lens flares to add flair.

I think we can all agree that there's no need for an NSA-specific backdoor in that piece of crap...

You're reading it wrong.

You might take your own advice. Perfectly valid, if you read in the missing "a" before "Shutdown" that is commonly dropped in headlines.

Please don't dislike us because of these skidmarks - there's plenty of other reasons you might dislike us for that we actually have control over.