It matters because it might/is going to cost him a lot of money that he doesn't have, and could professionally destroy him.

Should Pacman still be under copyright? No, or at least very arguably not after 30 years.

Is Pacman still under copyright? Yes.

Is this copyright infringement UNDER THE RULES AS THEY STAND? Almost certainly

Does that make the author a bad man who deserves punishment? No inference can be drawn.

Is some form of copyright protection necessary in the modern world? Probably; 260 years ago before copyright the investment required to product a work of art was almost entirely personal - and anything substantial was commissioned. Without copyright blockbusters would not exist - you may not regard that as a bad thing, but many people like them.

What can we conclude? He is boned, copyright needs reform.

Is this an original conclusion? Not by a country mile.

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a wikileaker..

We ALL have hooks, even the teetotal, traceless people you are talking about.

Do I want to hire the 'guy who got drunk on the internet' or the 'no trace anywhere' guy?

Or maybe the one without trace is just a nazi paedophile and keeps it secret.

sorry, I'll move on to another topic having killed this one now.

I know this is already +5, but make it +10 or something.

I'm not American, in fact I'm British (you know, we're pissing an Exxon Valdez into the Gulf every 4 or 5 days), but even I'm proud of the USA right now.

This post is what the good parts of America are to the rest of us.

Thank you for making my day.

Surely there are more important issues.

The minor one of what to do about the imminent bankruptcy of the US's largest single state economy, and the worlds 8th largest economy springs to mind, but maybe this is more critical.

Actually, translucent, green, are we sure this isn't a blatant ad to invite Superman to give up his Arctic home, and move to the Golden State? That would definitely bring in tourists, and that could solve the budget crisis. Brilliant thinking there....

actually I'd say that currently the sole salient feature is 'being born of human parents' - it is clearly not intelligence, as otherwise dolphins, most primates, and various other 'clever' animals would rank above meat born of human parents in a persistent vegetative state.

And it doesn't.

Whether 'human' rights will expand to include all intelligence is an interesting ethics debate, and one which may only be answered once we have built a more competent intelligence which has sufficient capability to decide whether 'Mekon rights' should be extended to us.

At that point I bet we become really inclusive.

Well, actually I have experienced psychic phenomena;

I have this weird thing with my wife where I think about her, and then she rings me. Completely random, and totally unexplainable.

Happens about 6pm every day...

just as well you aren't in Utah, or you could be in the thousands by 2021

Wow, Voxel-based GPU you say.

That makes the whole thing completely unbelievable. There is NO WAY they'll be able to do Voxel-based GPU at a $599 price point.