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Legal hypocracy alert: For file-sharing trials they WILL track your Internet Protocol address as if it's "you", but for Origin: 
 

The non-personally identifiable information that EA collects includes technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address) and operating system, as well as information about your Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware.  

This means they didn't store your 16 digit credit card.  

Instead they saved some "one way" fingerprint of the card.  To use the analogy, with only a fingerprint it's hard to reconstruct the hand.

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One other point to clarify is from this weekend’s press conference. While the passwords that were stored were not “encrypted,” they were transformed using a cryptographic hash function. There is a difference between these two types of security measures which is why we said the passwords had not been encrypted. But I want to be very clear that the passwords were not stored in our database in cleartext form. For a description of the difference between encryption and hashing, follow this link.

$0 would be a better price.
 
Cloud syncing is useless for PS3, for Microsoft however it's a good idea since those users may not have a hard-drive.

Streaming videos from PSN is painfully slow.  Are we paying to upgrade Sony's video network?
 
PS3 is optimized for the Japanese market.  It looks nice -- until you use it then it's like "where do I find the video chat feature???" and you realize looks aren't everything.