@UFO: I'm not selling my comments - if I were selling them as a collective work, then you'd be stealing from me, as such I'd be able to prosecute you. The situation is entirely different. Your comment is full of fail. The over all principle I'm talking about here loses meaning when you think of it from a singular…

@EmpressInYellow: Not exactly. Not everyone is interested in playing the game. Only a small percentage of the total population WOULD be interested in a game. Of those, some pirate it. Those are the "potential sales" the people who want to play a game, but don't want to pay for it.

caffeinated mints FTW!!

@fourzerotwo: hey, I do my homework - like I said, I never saw anything I thought was CONCRETE - that doesn't mean I haven't looked at any stats on the topic I can find. I'd imagine you've got access to numbers that would make the statistics nerd in me drool.

@EmpressInYellow: Not everyone who would pirate a game would buy one, but the fact is, some of them would. Let's use an imaginary number here - let's say 20% of all the people who pirated, let's say, CoD4 would have bought a copy if the freebie had not been available to them. Now let's say 100,000 people pirated the…

@fourzerotwo: I both agree and disagree. Activision's legal team is significantly more well equipped than the pirate's legal team - and by that I most likely mean a court appointed lawyer. As such, they'll most likely come closer to reaching their lofty goals than not. It's become very apparent over the past few years…

@EvilFiek: See, the way publishers look at is this: Every pirated copy is equal to what they refer to as a "potential sale". Let me use the same metaphor I always use when this comes up.

@fourzerotwo: I love it when they catch the guy in the act and he's all "Nah, that wasn't me." and the cop says "So there was another four foot ten inch hispanic guy in a black shirt ripped jeans and white sneakers in this alley that we missed?" and the criminal always answers "yes."

@Rebochan: I think it's fairly safe to assume that Activision's legal team is larger than that of the accused pirate. As such, they'll get the verdict they want, and if they want this kid to get railroaded to make an example of him, it'll happen. The shopkeeper beats the kid to make an example for all to see. It's the…

@fourzerotwo: There's a big difference between taking justifiable legal action, and attacking someone. Yea, the guy's a criminal and should be treated as such. No, they shouldn't be threatening him and attempting to sue for all he's worth just because they can - let the punishment fit the crime.

I don't think anyone would try to defend his actions as a pirate, however, let the punishment fit the crime - don't go after people based on their income, go after them for what they did wrong. Strong arm tactics like these give companies a bad reputation. I'm not a pirate, and I enjoy activision products - the fact…

so they're pulling apps so they can sell you smaller updates later on?? What? That doesn't even make sense.

Where's Witzbold at?? It's his time to shine!!

Inside of every chubby gamer there's a beautiful woman waiting to get out.

Wow, it's Vista w/ posted notes!!!

As long as the content is free when it hits, I don't really care about the delay. If this "online update" turns out to be paid DLC, I'll feel like I've had the rug pulled out from under me.

I like that when she's talking about the multiplayer portion of the game, she acts as though she herself programmed the game (might explain the graphics).

@_Perp: heh, good point - you could always sell it on ebay and get some of the money back. To me, a slight loss and a fully functional network is better than no loss and a network w/ hiccups. Just my two cents. If you do go router shopping, newegg ftw.

@_Perp: It shouldn't effect your connectivity at all actually. I use a linksys (running hacked firmware dd-wrt) and I frequently have macs of all shapes and sizes (I'm a freelance IT guy) on my network w/ no problem. The airports are just pretty looking routers. On the inside they do all the same stuff as a regular…

don't know if anyone covered this yet, but if you have a microwave, or a phone running on the 2.4 ghz spectrum near the router, you may have to change the channel it's broadcasting on. The default is always channel six - right in the middle near microwaves, cordless phones, and various other devices on the 2.4 ghz…