You know, I think you are on to something. Since I have somewhat dinged credit, I will just use someone else's identity because the UNreasonable company refuses to give me a loan. It doesn't matter if it breaks the rules, rules are meant to bend.

Yeah, I'll show them!

Wow, either an over eager troll or the biggest dolt in the thread, which are you?

People choose to buy an Apple product. The choose to not buy an Apple product.

If it was so very very bad for Apple's customers, why do people still buy Apple?

Are you really suck a prick as decide what a person can or cannot do with regard to the items they buy? The other question begs, why the hell do you f*&^ing care what MP3 player someone uses?

Are you that petty?

Your sig is full of win. We need more SG1

So maybe you are confusing Apple with Amazon. Apple doesn't 'reach out and delete apps', they simply removed them from the app store so no one else can download them.

Now Amazon, they do reach out, and delete content you have already paid for.

If you are going to throw stones, be sure you throw them at the correct target. You making shit up about a company you don't like doesn't make you insightful, it makes you dishonest.

Honestly, I have been eager to get off this rock since sometime after 1991.

I'm willing and able to shake off the dust of Earth, plus, I'll even make useful and do meaningful chores for the betterment of the ol' mother Earth.

WIN

More people should understand this simple fact. Good job AC.

Blizzard never purges character information, so you would only have to pay for the expansions you didn't previously pay for. And in the case of the most recent expansion, the DVD (or download) will install the client for the player based on if they 'upgraded' their account to either expansion. So, if you stopped before Burning Crusade, you would have the updated version on the lvl 1-60 game installed.

Blizzard got this part very right. Just because you leave a game, there isn't an absolute need to erase your character data in case you come back.

Good points.

Another $45 to play new content for a game you already bought and pay $15 a month to play.

Hey Blizz, how about not charging for this one, say, maybe as a thank you to the suckers like me that have played for years and already bought the two previous expansions?

Hey, rather than find a way to reuse a complicated piece of tech, lets play like cavemen and come up with awesome ways to break it so no one can do anything with it.

Sure, some data is too valuable to risk, but it is 2009, you would think we would have a non-physically destructive way to securely erase data rather than a hammer.

The scope of the pure wastefulness of this is just sick. Yeah, I'm probably in a minority, but this logic is why our landfills leach out heavy metals into the water table.

America used to be resourceful and frugal.

Smart people can tell the voices in their head are their own thoughts, while the less intelligent think they are hearing disembodied voices, not their own?

damn it!

Just because you are too 'busy' to read the contract doesn't mean you are safe to assume what that contract contained.

You should be able to assume that the state isn't watching you walk to work, or who your friends are. But, when you sit down and sign a contract, it is YOUR responsibility to make sure you know what you are signing, and if you don't agree to the letter of it, don't sign.

It is important to 'raise the alarm', but if a person can't be bothered to do their part in a contact signing, as in reading the damn thing, then they can't play victim.

While it isn't 'clear' (haha) if Clear has the legal ability to sell the info, if the clients signed a contract giving Clear the right, the clients are out of luck. Their lack of effort isn't an assault on privacy, it's a symptom of how profoundly lazy we have become.

If you sign away your privacy, then it isn't the evil corporation's fault, it is yours.

Grow some responsibility people.

I hope the films inspire the people not already out in the streets to join the ones that are. The new revolution will be twittered.