Yep, and it wasn’t even Sony, it was at a rival company that got bought out after the rootkit was made but before it became a scandal.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

Wow, people still ready penny arcade in the year of our lord 2026?

What’s next, a link to stile project?

While I’d have no real problem with meta being banned for those under 18, or just their business model somehow made illegal

They weren’t selling drugs. They weren’t killing opponents. Making a product so good that people find themselves addicted to it isn’t something you get fined $1.4 trillion for.

Quick google says Tolkien co. allows fanfiction, but not if the authors are trying to sell it at a profit. That a fanfiction author did self-publish his fanfiction book, then sued Amazon and Tolkien for ripping off his plot, and lost the suit because he didn't have rights to publish in the first place.

Isn't that what you'd expect? Is there more going on?

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

Even without PlayStation doing this, nobody is buying disks anymore and the 2nd hand market for games made recently barely exists.

And digital downloads / disk isn’t the deciding factor. I can still play KOTOR on a modern Xbox whether I have the original disk from 23 years ago or the $5 download, but my jet set radio future disk won’t run on a modern machine.

That was quite a rant. You put quite a bit of time into defending your brand. U mad that a phone with .5% market share doesn’t get more recognition?

Sounds like you should learn how to make better tests.

Lots of non-gamers here? Nobody buys disks anymore. Games don't play directly off the disks, they need to be installed. I guess having disks helps with the install process, but between how fast the internet is and all the inevitable updates, it's basically the same install process, with or without a disk.

Buying the game on disk basically just means that if you want to play the game, you have to dig out the disk.

For those who don't know:

1) 21 years ago, Sony Music bought BMG, a company which put a rootkit if people tried to listen to music on computers, which nobody actually did. Theoretically it could helped spread viruses, although no it actually didn't.

2) 16 years ago, Sony gave Linux access on a device, although nobody actually used it, and there was no possible reason to use it besides "oh that's kind of cool I guess." Then rescinded it.

Anyway, minor quibbles and they happened forever ago.

I'm also a teacher...and how do you figure? They're imperfect, there's issues around them...but useless? Ultimately, if you create a test that's even semi-decent, students who know the material well will get an "A," students who have no fucking clue what's going on in the class will get an F, and other students will get somewhere in between. Isn't that what you'd want?

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.