I hope he got the harddrive replaced too after something like that. If the harddrive is readable after an incident like that it may not be for much longer. I had a black MacBook suffer similar damage from a fall shortly before leopard was released and the harddrive failed while I was trying to back it up. I lost a lot of data because of that.

Is this the way it works with movies? Minors are forced to pay more for a ticket to a movie (or a DVD) than they would have had to pay as an adult? This is ludicrous and inneffectual. I could see kids telling their parents to factor the fine into the cost of the game. Problems more readily lay in determining if the game is appropriate for the age group, this is not easily done even by the ESRB, or the Politicians. (I feel that certain age restrictions are scewed by popular opinion.) It comes down to parental consent and parental considreation. The government's goals should be to provide businesses with incentives to help parents make appropriate choices for their kids. Parents should not and cannot expect the government of any state to do their job for them, ever.

If this actually works at reasonable speeds, I don't understand why nintendo isn't offering this already on a pay per download basis. I mean, come on! Every one else is doing it.