Ok, well, no spoilers here, but rather, out there.

Just this week, I've come close to stumbling upon spoilers for Halo 3 a few times now, and from some unlikely sources at that. Not just gaming sites and forums, but sites like YouTube, MySpace, etc are no shelter from spoilers, it seems. It only takes one person to post or leave a comment that can ruin what's most likely a long-awaited experience for gamers around the world.

Other recent news also makes me think about how this affects other forms of entertainment, including books like the Harry Potter series, and films, like the just-revealed plot details of the fourth Indiana Jones film. It seems like there used to be a day when spoilers didn't exist, but that was only because the world was a different place back then--the days when we didn't have a global network which can spread information in an instant.

Imagine someone being able to give away the ending of The Empire Strikes Back way back in 1980, and how people would have been so pissed to have it ruined. And frankly, that probably did happen, but when news could only travel so far so fast in those days, it wouldn't have had nearly the same widespread effect that it would today.