This is news? They've had this forever in the form of GTCs you could buy via non-secure and more recently secure transactions. How is PLEX any different than buying a GTC?
All that aside, CCP has been getting more effective at banning the farmers... the economy is already showing the effects of the bans via increased mineral and isotope prices.
The only problem is that CCP seems dead set on turning their game into WoW in space instead of keeping their individuality. They have been slowly chipping away at the features that differentiate them from other MMO's. For the last year they have been real big on removing features or nerfing things that people worked long and hard for (such as Carriers) without giving anything back. CCP is slowly destroying their own game.
The TS client used was irrelevant (I tried a couple including the old MSTSC), it was the RDP service on the machine that wasn't working. It was still listening on 3389 but one of the DLLs wouldn't load with the nvidia driver present. There's a big thread about it on the nvidia forum if you're interested.
I am trying, and failing, to understand how this Peoplesoft/Oracle crap could in any way be related to gaming or be thought of as interesting news to gamers. There are other news sites for this kind of stuff!