[Some one finally sells a Bubsy shirt!]

$19 for a Bubsy shirt? That is more than it would be to buy the game. That is, if someone wanted the game =)

[Playing Stunt Car Racer (C64)]

I love that game. Nothing better than launching the car off of a huge hill at 200mph and seeing that wrecking pattern that comes up when you die. Still play it now and then when I think about it.

[Piracy is too damn easy]

Ownership issues definitely are a problem. On the media side, they want to abolish fair use and control the distribution and viewing totally (HDCP comes to mind), on the viewer side, they want to abuse fair use as much as possible and get everything for free. I think the answer lies somewhere in the middle. You need to have the ability for fair use such as timeshifting and a way to do legitimate backups of media without giving the opportunity to pirate. The problem is, all we have now is encryption and that usually can be hacked easily. Another option, activation, can't really be used because it would require users to have internet access to view the media. I really don't know what the answer is. Maybe go to dongles or something (I am kidding).

 

Cliff