It isn't that they don't understand. They don't care. Why should they? The law doesn't apply to them, and lesser being exist to be controlled by their superiors. Just ask them.

You've jumped head first into the bottomless pit of TDS.

Found the TDS sufferer.

Jimmy Carter (notable for being a Democrat) was as low, as was George W. Bush, Harry S. Truman (another Democrat) was lower, by 2%. Only Nixon was substantially lower, by 10%.

You could have stopped after the fourth word.

Though, technically, I suppose you're right: It isn't possible to lie more than "every word out of one's mouth," and all politicians lie as much as Trump. Most of them at leas try to be subtle, where he doesn't.

And none of them really apply to the third largest company in the field.

I'm having a hard time seeing the third largest company in the field as a monopoly. I believe the correct term would be cartel, or conspiracy in restraint of trade.

If everyone can do it, then it's not insider information.

That's the usual way, but calling it a "fine" is stupid and confusing. "Penalty" is the correct word.

Or just not let it connect to the internet.

Or maybe it was a competitor who wasn't interested in stealing the laptop so much as stealing the game before its release?

In any event, "The laptop was stored in a cupboard in the booth." The whole point of a laptop is its portability. While the venue and convention organizers could certainly have done a better job, anybody who leaves something that valuable in the booth at night is a fool.

Did you masturbate while you posted that, bot? How does a bot masturbate? Do you have robotic hands, and a dildo? Is the dildo battery operated? How do you know when you're done?

While that is entirely possible, I'm skeptical. It doesn't appear to have enough intelligence to be of any use to them whatsoever. I'm more inclined to believe it's an especially broken bot.

You, on the other hand, are clearly so obsessed with it that you can't stop yourself form furiously masturbating at every opportunity to remind everyone of who obsessed you are.

While I agree 100%, though I'd prefer to see criminal charges against CEOs for the DOS attacks they knowingly commit, with things like changing user agents to ignore blocks as evidence of criminal intent (which it is), while I agree 100%, there would be lawsuits that, in the current climate, have enough of a chance to succeed to result in temporary restraining orders while it takes years to resolve (not too different from when the same tactics were used in the spam wars).

I guess you missed this part:

"Suddenly, the crawlers were coming from millions of random residential or mobile IPs, all pretending to be random modern browsers. An IP like that would make 4-5 requests and then never show up in the logs again"