Amazon. . . . oh, you mean the guys who shafted Wikileaks. The guys from whom I no longer buy anything... who cares about Amazon?
I dodged a bullet on that one: I was just about to buy their Kindle and be tied to them forever.
Really, all I want to know is which game producer funded the person who wrote this editorial? There's lots of evidence about this topic that he's ignoring. To say there's no evidence is either intentionally misleading, or uninformed:
http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/walsh.html