Anyone who hasn't seen "From russia with love," the BBC documentary about tetris, I encourage you to seek it out. It covers the birth of tetris in the soviet un

Anyone who hasn't seen "From russia with love," the BBC documentary about tetris, I encourage you to seek it out. It covers the birth of tetris in the soviet union's academy of sciences, and then the fascinating story of its inexorable spread throughout the burgeoning worldwide videogame industry. There were many fights over the licensing in different territories, culminating with various westerners having to go cap in hand to the kremlin to beg for the rights. It was one of the first soviet-made products to be licensed for sale outside the Iron Curtain, and was a significant turning point in the Perestroika movement. It includes interviews with all the key people including the original tetris developer, the atari and nintendo execs who fought for the rights, and even the kremlin technocrat who held their fate in his hands. It deals with software intellectual property issues, young upstart tech entrepreneurs, contractual trickery and all sorts of HN type things. It'd make a great movie.