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This is just the beginning of governments taxing international, virtual, IP. Next comes the international monitoring agency to "protect" consumer rights, then the taxes to pay for them.

Its OK though, they will bury the taxes in inflation, you wont even notice as long as you are watching the stock market.

oh cool since in the eula all goods belong to ccp its nice to know enlgand will protect thier digital assests.

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Not at all Nex, there are obnoxious people all over the world with bad timing and ill humor. If there's a reason to "grrrr wtf!" the United States, its is more to do with the perceived Americaization that can occur when big money wants to get bigger.

People I have met form overseas love their cultural identity, their history, and their right to do things their way. But certain people also see the U.S. model as being financially superior and so the drive to emulate it is very hard to resist.

It is probably this internal tension that creates an emotional response when dealing with the US more than anything Americans personally say or do.

***Canadians and Mexicans and all the peoples of S.America can also claim to be "Americans". I try and avoid using the term to specifically describe U.S. citizens. Kinda tough though =-P

They absolutely can. You've mistaken "laws" governing internal politics with trade agreements, treaties, conventions, and other international signatory agreements. Generally, trade agreements are reciprocal in nature; all parties agree to the terms and their enforcement. If you break the agreement, you get smacked with sanctions, trade barriers, tariffs, etc. Most often, the situation is simply that a business's license to operate a business is suspended. If they really want to get serious, they'll go after bank accounts.

The Queen's speech is only a list of proposals that the current government think is in it's interest to announce at the time, mixed up with some padding. I doubt anything will come of it, and if it does I expect a clause that if the provider take reasonable steps to compensate users no further action would be taken. Plus who is going to pony up the cash to take something like this to court for a video game? Can't see it affecting Eve in the slightest.

Losing customers and reputation is the real damage caused by a Simcity style omni-shambles, having to pay compensation on top is something of an insignificance.

That depends on which customers left and how much the compensation + administrative fee's come out to.+ time wasted explaining things to bureaucrats who have little to no knowledge about the industry that they are in charge of regulating. It was the government and their meddling that destroyed studio 38, nothing to do with customers.

Did the Queen just give Netflix the middle finger because her movie was freezing up?

No, we have an established intent from The Queens speech, written by the Government to debate the wording of and proposals in the coming term of parliament. Its basically the consultation phase.