I never said it was okay, I simply attempted to point out the differences, I've seen this comparison made a couple of times now and I think it's a poor one. And nice of you to be brave and resort to AC to post your personal comments :p

Bad analogy, a photograph is a form of recording, a better analogy to publishing a photograph is to publish an MP3 of a live concert which you recorded, and that would probably have legal complications.

I'm with you on the irresponsibility of politicians, but it seems like the Bullingdon Club usually paid for their damages. Still a disgusting display of wealth and arrogance, but not in the same league as burning down apartments with people still inside, shooting a man so you can steal his car to burn it, or beating a 60-something year-old man to death.

They're not giving away the source code, just the SDK...

I find horror movies completely un-scary, however scary video games frighten the crap out of me. I have a strange compulsion to buy them, but I never get close to finishing them.

System Shock 2
FEAR
The Penumbra series

All of them scare me so much I have to stop playing, for some reason my imagination runs roit and I end up cowering in a corner (in-game :D ) unable to force myself to move into the next room with the scary noises or whatever...

I think the difference for me is being in control of the action, rather than in movies where I have no control so it doesn't scare me?

LOL, you should let Google's lawyers know, they could use this as a defence against Oracle

"The term 'bloatware' generally refers to any additional software installed on a machine that is not a native part of the operating system."

No, no it doesn't. Bloatware refers to software which takes a disproportional amount of memory or CPU time.

It's wrong because they're selling it and making money from someone else's IP. File sharing isn't usually done for profit.

This was clearly a dream

'People are so tricked into that that they'll actually spend real money on something that does absolutely nothing, nothing at all.' Well duh, surely buying 'normal' non-social games falls under that category too...

He didn't say it was stock, there's a pretty large aircooled tuning scene you know :]

It doesn't matter so much on the PC where it can be patched by the community (in the case of Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout3 anyway) but I'd be gutted if I'd bought any of those games for a console. I don't know how you go about convincing publishers that games need to be released only when they're ready - I'm not going to boycott them, I'm glad I bought Oblivion et al. Maybe some kind of US class action suit would work - not fit for purpose because the quests are so buggy I can't complete them :D