Be quiet guys, thats where the sleestaks live.

There are, but I think they apply more to cases of IP from one nation being published unlawfully by a publisher in a different nation with lax IP laws, ie., pirated American movies in Estonia. This involves two Japanese parties over IP that was only tangentially published outside of Japan. If it was an American anime…

I assume because you somehow break anonymity and reveal an email address which can then be used to do public records searches. This article might have some info:

No, not kidding. I have a family to consider and I’ve seen too many examples of people having pizzas delivered to their houses / swat teams called in. Yes its a risk/reward calculation, but the reward for driving a car (which IS more dangerous) is also much greater (its damn near a necessity) than the reward of…

And for your next article: ‘How to Survive a SWATing Now That You’ve Decided to Stream Games to An Anonymous Audience of Disaffected Manchildren’

This is why I don’t stream. The risks of one person deciding to ruin my day and get it on camera hugely outweigh the rewards of sharing my gameplay.

Its not, apparently its fairly common for Japanese holders of copyright to not understand why Americans are calling them all the time for permission to use a photo. However, copyright law is generally applied in the country where the work published.

I didn’t see the OP saying he could do better. Can you point me to a quote?

Outright IP theft would bother me, generally, except for the following features of this instance of it:
1) the photo is owned by a large publishing company that can look after itself

I don’t think six star wanted levels are an Easter Egg.

Yes, thats exactly what they did. Because their time and energy isn’t infinite and *they didn’t feel like cleaning it up.*

Lazy development as in ‘I’m not going to bother erasing this dead code segment because it doesn’t affect anything else.’

What you are talking about are artifacts of that ‘long and complicated development process’, the inevtable cruft of revision after revision that it would take more effort to remove than to leave it…

“The assumption now is that maybe, just maybe, players haven’t found the specific way to trigger the six stars in-game yet.”

No, hundreds of thousands of players across multiple platforms with billions of hours of play time — and they just haven’t found it yet.

How about we turn to Sir William of Occam and get his…

NO THEY WERE LIKE UNTO GODS.

I love that you assume all those people never had moments where they said ‘fuck it, I’m tired’ and left something unimportant half-completed. Nope. Every single line of GTA V code that looks like something someone forgot to delete has a SECRET MEANING.

“Man, the Internet is just fucking perfect for hyperbole”

Agreed.

I definitely believe its the source photo, the odds of standing in that exact position makes it unlikely. But I just can’t get outraged. At off peak times you would just composite a series of photos and infer whats behind the few heads you couldn’t get rid of when tracing.

But I really just can’t get outraged over the…

Again, outrage should be from the right’s holder who for all I know might have sold the right to use the photo as a backdrop to the anime’s production house. It would not surprise me in the slightest for this either to be an unauthorized copying or for it to be perfectly legitimate, but its hardly any skin off my back…

Is that Japanese copyright law, International treaty or USian? I don’t know the appropriate Japanese law regarding photography, but the text of the author’s rights law seems to suggest it only protects creative works expressing thoughts or sentiment. I’m not sure a stock photo of public train is covered there and…

Yeah, I’m sure anyone who pays for 10 redundant accounts is really hurting for money.

In a week he will have a new account on a different IP address with a new character and be doing the same things again. This is hardly any punishment, its a fine equal to the amount of a new copy of the game. Nobody cares about being shamed under an assumed name on the internet. If they really wanted to do something…

Well you’re in luck because the theory isn’t true in the slightest so nothing has been spoiled.