Reminds me of http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/02/10 http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/02/10 and William Gibson's 2003 book Pattern recognition tha

Reminds me of http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/02/10 http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/02/10 and William Gibson's 2003 book Pattern recognition that dealt with this. This is a pretty old and known thing. Whether it's the street, bars or online forums, this has been going on for over 10 years at least.