"Last week, one of the world's most successful online gaming companies, Blizzard Entertainment of Irvine, told its global community of World of Warcraft players that they'd have to use real names in forums.
The pushback was severe. The most outraged, as Register writer Ian Hamilton reported, lashed out by publishing online every public item they could find about Blizzard employees and, in some cases, their relatives."
"The distribution of copyrighted materials without permission (over the internet) can be a violation of federal law. The law is known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA")."
"Programmers, roboticists and tinkerers...are getting the Kinect to do things it was not really meant to do. The attraction of the device is that it outfitted with cameras, sensors, and software that let it detect movement, depth, and the shape and position of the human body"