raindog commented on Valve "Deactivating" Customers Who Bought "Orange Box" Internationally

"Whether or not you're "smelling identity theft" is irrelevant to the fact that Valve has been selling software around the world with no pre-sale notice that it will be disabled without refund if you play it outside the country it was sold, and now, up to three years later, is deactivating that software without notice. DVD and game console regions are pretty clearly labeled; in contrast, there is no standard for enforcing regions in PC software, and the users had no reason to expect this practice to start now, out of the blue. Valve is clearly in the wrong here."

raindog commented on Valve "Deactivating" Customers Who Bought "Orange Box" Internationally

"@crazytree: I guess it's not surprising that an anti-consumer troll would also be racist, but wow. @iransofaraway: What exactly does "semi-illegal" mean?"

raindog commented on 5 Expenses You Can't Afford If You Have Credit Card Debt

"I wonder if a consumer affairs cable TV program would produce the same list, except for substituting "dump the Internet" for "dump cable"."