I really hate marketing stunts like this that don't actually prove anything about the software. Dropping a rack off a building will get some guy giving us a thumbs up? Awesome. I'll take 12 copies.
Stardock games are actually pretty good. I had a lot of fun with Demigod when it launched. Also I believe Sins of a Solar Empire was one of theirs as well.
You can do a lot of good by taking everything posted on social networking sites with a grain of salt. People using these sites tend to lose the sense of social responsibility that stops them from saying stupid things in real life.
The only music game I've ever bought myself was the original Rock Band, and I'm still dropping 10 bucks a month or so on DLC. Now everyone has their fisher-price instruments they should be selling us these things like itunes rather than in boxes on shelves.
Thaaaat doesn't quite work. Those billboards are not providing you a service. Google provides free, quality web applications which are popular. They then sell ad space on the strength of the sites popularity. It's more like a free newspaper you pick up at subway stations. If it wasn't free...
People may not like Pirate Bay's methods, but they (and others, mainly napster) sped up the adoption of digital download products quicker than they would have materialised otherwise. If this guy is ever locked up, it wouldn't be too far fetched to see him as some kind of digital martyr.
Ugh, web filters like this never work. I remember when we got one installed at work. It blocked our main suppliers website (so we couldn't order stock) but didn't block the sports and videogames pages it was supposed too. It didn't even block well known proxy sites. Waste of money imo.