Decius wrote:
] Of the cyber cafes in LA, ...

Forgive my pendantry, but what is the legal definition of cyber cafe (or "Internet cafe" in the CNET article)?

Does the Starbucks on my corner qualify as a cyber cafe because it has the T-Mobile WiFi service? (Bring Your Own Computer)

Does the McDonald's down the street, which serves coffee and provides WiFi access to the Internet, also qualify as a cyber cafe?

How about the Hear Music in Santa Monica, which sells Starbucks coffee and allows customers to preview music through Internet-connected h-p computer kiosks?

Is there a separate legal definition of "video games"? Does it matter who "owns" the game -- and if so, what about freeware? Is this one of those laws where the definition is based on percentages of sources of revenue? What if I set up a cafe with a bunch of Internet-connected Playstations connected to TV's? Or a bunch of iMacs, or Solaris workstations, instead of PCs? If you can browse to Yahoo, you can play multiplayer video games over the Internet. What if the kids are playing Go instead of Counterstrike?

I guess LAX must qualify as a cyber cafe, because there are definitely more than five computers offering Internet access.

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