This logic can be applied to anything you do.

While I don't side with him, a few things:

I'd wager that the era is gone (as pointed out by Kotaku in some article earlier). Those that are still running on subscription are doing so because of fan-base or history, even Star Wars could hold it, so my guess is that the genre as a whole is over.

While I agree, it actually did make me chuckle to myself just a little. Only because I imagined that someone most likely actually has managed to make an ambulance drive an ambulance with how many mods there are.

Tell that to the apple people who happen to have been locked out of their account due to rather easy methods.

P.S. - I still cant fathom how a taxi driver is going to afford the metal plates he's going to need in his head for the reconstruction surgery needed.

I didn't say you said he should get away with it. I'm comparing your instance to his, and from your above confession, the instances are not at all alike.

The real question, and the only question I want answered, is will the author of the already-uploaded mod be able to continue to expand on his mod now that an official DLC is released?

Until I see the paperwork with the terms and conditions, everything is for naught anyways. None of us have any idea as to what these two individuals originally signed up for, and what their plans were. The whole story is a big "?"

I simply used my power PC to hold all the HDD's for now. I'll eventually go to a Server type solution. But for now if i can stuff it in there, why not! :)

Not to downplay the author, as you mention nobody is perfect.

It's gonna be awesome this year :). Already stoked about it, and yet it's only 2 days away! (1 if you count thursday lol)

An idea, the basis for which a patent can be made, is not bound to a product. It is free to be for quite a number of things. Admittedly, peripherals are probably excluded, but specifics on those peripherals is not, to my knowledge.

My answer to this is: "and so?"

"Tell that to Robert Kearns it simply isn't true." And i say tell that to Ouya and confirm that it is. Even worse, they're "copying" the console market and just opening it up to be broader and do android gaming. Hell, tell it to Steve with the invention of the original iPod.

does your phone have a case? Imagine if, say, a company made a patent on a case that fits the particular mold of a phone. And then told all other case companies that they couldn't make a case that was similar to its shape unless they paid royalties. Is that really innovation? They just got the shape from the prior…

Because if you came out with an out-of-the-park brand new idea that was absolutely astounding and people would flock to it based on name alone (but then be overwhelmed with how pure awesome it is), people will actually pay a lot more money for something. Example: Every new invention that's taken off, ever.

haha, what a cool awesome life that would be.

You're taking some really large jumps to exaggerate change.