"ah, but what about a LAN war? Thats good to go right?"

Sorry, no. In response to the changing technological and political landscape all international conflicts must now be run through battle.net.

I wonder how much income tax revenue New York has lost out on now that New York-based Amazon affiliates can no longer earn money from Amazon.

I wonder how this lost income tax revenue for commissions on worldwide sales referred by New York-based Amazon Affiliates compares to the amount of sales tax they lose out on for Amazon sales to New York-based customers.

I'm guessing that New York shot themselves in the foot on this one.

Maybe his business IS gaming.

Blizzard signed the advertising deal with Massive to display ads on the battle.net website ONLY. They've specifically stated that it doesn't cover in-game ads. This has been reported here as well as in many other stories that can be found with a Google search.

So, hopefully no in-game ads from Blizzard. I don't know about the other publishers listed.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-778

It's already been sponsored, introduced, and referred to committee.

Sponsor: Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV] Co-sponsors: Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME], Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]

How about the fact that being standards compliant is one of the main advantages that Mozilla, Safari, and other browsers currently have over IE? IE ignoring W3C standards has significantly weakened the usefulness of the standards. If other browsers are forced to also begin ignoring the standards due to BS like this being adopted then the existence of the standards will become pointless.