Redbox fills a unique niche, being the only surviving mechanism for in person physical disc rentals. Their pricing is highly competitive because they’ve created a highly efficient supply chain and distribution platform that requires an absolute minimum amount of human intervention and support and they keep their…

One thing to remember about online movie rentals, whether they show up on steam, amazon, or anywhere else, is that they usually become available around the same time the physical discs are released for sale or rent.

Nintendo hardly seems interested in their living room console these days, the majority of their releases seem to be targeted at the 3DS. I wouldn’t mind so much if 3DS games were playable on the Wii U, but there’s a lion’s share of games I’ll never bother with because I’m not interested at looking at a tiny screen…

I think I have to side with the developers on this one. Most of these lets players claim it’s fair use, but since when did “fair use” allow you to repost the Entirety of someone else’s copyrighted material? Fair use is about using a _portion_ of another person’s work, not the entire work, to create a derivative piece…

If blizzard sold WoW exclusively as a subscription service, then it’d be analogous to Netflix. They don’t. They sell the game client in one sale and then the ability to play on their servers subject to their ToS in a separate subscription.

In my opinion there’s one thing that explicitly shoots Blizzard’s complaints and their right to complain about private servers in the foot. Their product is a two part sale. The first part that everyone must pay for is the game and each and every expansion. This is a completely separate and extra sale. The second part…