News of the Week; August 17, 2016

By Jon Festinger on August 17, 2016

GAMES

  1. League of Legends maker goes to court to stop cheat programs: Riot says LeagueSharp “ruins the game… for players that take [it] seriously.”
  2. Riot takes aim at League of Legends cheating software in new lawsuit
  3. Riot sues League of Legends cheat-makers: Developer goes after hackers behind LeagueSharp subscription service “dedicated to destroying the LoL player experience”
  4. Riot Games Joins Blizzard In Misusing Copyright To Go After Video Game Cheaters
  5. Solid Oak Sketches LLC v. 2K Games Inc.
  6. ‘We don’t feel safe’: Metro Detroit couple sues Pokémon Go
  7. Pokémon Go players are wreaking havoc on a Toronto ferry terminal
  8. US police are using Pokémon Go to lure criminals to their stations: Virginia’s Smithfield Police Department invited eight ‘random citizens’ to catch super-rare Ditto in their processing room, after New Hampshire police employed same tactic
  9. Pokémon Go sponsorships will ease “that pressure” to dial up IAP: “It’s tough to be disciplined and understand where you want to draw the line between monetisation and fun gameplay” – Niantic CEO John Hanke
  10. Arrêté Pokemon: Monsieur le Maire a pris un arrêté interdisant l’implantation virtuelle de personnages Pokemon sur la commune de Bressolles.
  11. Catch ‘Em All Without Breaking the Law – A Pokémon Go Player’s Guide to Access Rights
  12. Pokémon’s Evolving Legal Landscape
  13. Gotta catch…a lawsuit? A legal insight into the battlefield Pokémon Go has downloaded onto smartphones and properties around the world
  14. Pokémon GO’s Impact on Smaller Developers
  15. No Man’s Stream: Leaks Mar an Indie Milestone – Ignorance or cynical self-interest; there’s no other explanation for broadcasting hours of footage of a leaked, unfinished game
  16. No Man’s Sky Windows port launched today, is kind of a mess: Button remapping woes, framerate hitches; first patch already online.
  17. Hack the galaxy: The nascent No Man’s Sky PC modding scene
  18. “Premium is dead. That’s a fact, so let’s deal with it”: With Lost in Harmony, Digixart’s Yoan Fanise confronted the death of premium on mobile, but that shouldn’t mean the death of variety
  19. Fernanfloo scores big with new free game: The El Salvador-based gamer’s new venture is part of BroadbandTV’s broader strategy to diversify creator revenue streams beyond ad sales.
  20. Marvel Contest of Champions bringing in over $25M a month
  21. Are paid apps dead? There’s only 1 among the US 50 top-grossing, and it’s Minecraft
  22. Why Video Game Scores are Useless
  23. Firefly Games targets Hollywood following $10M investment
  24. Robin Hunicke hopes her games ‘encourage people to help one another’
  25. Gambling on eSports under new scrutiny by UK Gambling Commission
  26. Virtual currencies, eSports and social gaming – discussion paper (U.K. Gambling Commission)
  27. Year of solid growth for UK industry sees employment and revenues rise: TIGA study says games contribute £1.25bn to UK GDP
  28. Tencent leads the US$226M financing of Twitch-like streaming site, Douyu TV: The company isn’t even the top dog in China, Huya TV can claim the title of most popular videogame streaming service.
  29. Bethesda: Long marketing campaigns are a distraction from game dev
  30. Turkish Reporter: These Grand Theft Auto Cheat Codes Are The Secret Messages Of The Failed Coup Attempt
  31. An Olympic Athlete Wore Witcher Gear During Competition: Vitalina Batsarashkina won silver in a shooting event.
  32. How video games suck you in: “Our sense of time becomes yoked, not to the ticking of the clock, but to the pattern of our interactions”
  33. 15 years later, dev releases source code of cancelled Game Boy Color RPG
  34. Why Super Metroid’s Hacking Community is Still Going Strong 

DIGITAL

  1. The copyright case that should worry all Internet providers
  2. This Daily Beast Grindr Stunt Is Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical
  3. Daily Beast removes Olympics Grindr article after backlash
  4. International Olympic Committee Cracks Down on Periscope Pirates
  5. Olympian posts photo of the armed boys he says robbed him in Rio, photo itself stolen from LA Times
  6. Bahamian sprinter’s finish line dive blows up the internet with these gold medal memes
  7. Which Crazy Copyright Holder Took Down Katie Ledecky/Carlos Santana ‘Smooth’ Mashup First
  8. Racial segregation is alive and well on social media
  9. Blacks more likely than whites to see – and post – race-related content on social media (Pew Research Center)
  10. A Possible Solution To Twitter’s Difficult Problem Of Abusive Behavior: Let People Speak, Don’t Force Everyone To Listen
  11. Section 230 Immunizes Twitter From Liability For ISIS’s Terrorist Activities–Fields v. Twitter (Eric Goldman)
  12. Judge On Whether Twitter Is Legally Liable For ISIS Attacks: Hahahahahaha, Nope.
  13. Kansas couple who live in a ‘digital hell’ sue mapping company MaxMind
  14. Amazon Case Means EU B2C Website Terms May Need an Update
  15. Disconnected in Silicon Valley’s shadow: While Facebook looks to bring internet access to India, many in nearby Fresno struggle with digital literacy.
  16. I’m deleting Snapchat, and you should too
  17. Can Facebook really make ads unblockable?
  18. Another Unfortunate Example Of Facebook Silencing Important Videos
  19. Disappointing: LinkedIn Abusing CFAA & DMCA To Sue Scraping Bots
  20. Russia Plans Social Media Piracy Crackdown
  21. Russia fines Google $6.75 million for Android antitrust violations: Google ordered to loosen restrictions on Android device makers after Yandex complaint.
  22. Sling TV will stream football games via NFL Network and NFL RedZone
  23. Irish court orders alleged Silk Road admin to be extradited to US
  24. Court: US seizure of Kim Dotcom’s millions and 4 jet skis will stand – 4th Circuit – Megaupload founder never came to US to face charges, so he’s a “fugitive.”
  25. Appeals Court Says It’s Perfectly Fine For The DOJ To Steal Kim Dotcom’s Money Before Any Trial
  26. Bleeping Computer countersues maker of SpyHunter: Upset over domain name registrations that “libel” Bleeping Computer.
  27. Podcasting patent troll fights EFF on appeal, hoping to save itself: Personal Audio’s appeal comes down to tiny differences in Web presentation.
  28. Canada’s Innovation Strategy Must Stop Tech Trolls (Michael Geist)
  29. Donald Trump’s plush Scottish golf resort flouted UK data law: Clerical oversight to blame, quickly registers to swerve watchdog.
  30. Yelp Warns Consumers About Legal Threats From Companies
  31. A prescription for preventing 3D printing piracy
  32. Can A.I. write a Hollywood film?
  33. Three Ways The Musical.ly App is Changing How We Interact With Music
  34. GoPro And ESPN Bring Sponsorship Legitimacy To US Drone Racing Championship
  35. Clouds of Things. Data protection and consumer law at the intersection of cloud computing and the Internet of Things in the United Kingdom (Guido Noto La Diega)
  36. The Internet of Heirlooms and Disposable Things (Woodrow Hartzog & Evan Selinger)
  37. Apple’s Emoji Gun Control (Jonathan Zittrain)
  38. Apple May Ultimately Regret its Success in Apple v. Samsung
  39. I was the victim of a Wikipedia troll attack: Or, how I had to prove to the encyclopedia of everything that I’m a nobody.
  40. Sex, Privacy, and Videotape: Lessons of Gawker’s Downfall
  41. Univision buys Gawker Media for $135 million: Gawker still has an outstanding judgment of $140M from Hulk Hogan libel case.
  42. Lots Of Newspapers Discovering That Paywalls Don’t Work
  43. New Audi cars can tell you when traffic lights will turn green: But only in some cities that have centralized traffic management systems.

CREATIVITY

  1. Why Does The Copyright Office Keep Acting Like A Lobbying Arm For Hollywood?
  2. No Inspiration Without Payment: Ed Sheeran Sued For Two Songs Sounding Too Similar To Old Songs
  3. Ed Sheeran: A Tale of Two Song Theft Lawsuits (and a Thousand Journalists) – How should reporters treat legal claims like the one that alleges the pop superstar infringed Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On”?
  4. A compulsive audience and a complicit news media: When is a distribution method that harms users’ brains no longer an acceptable cost of doing business?
  5. Fandom Culture In 2016: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly – Do fans own artists? Is social media damaging the culture?
  6. How America’s Surveillance State Shaped The Sound Of Rap: The narrative of post-prison rap albums has long been determined by the threat of un-freedom.
  7. Pancake flap: ‘Aunt Jemima’ heirs seek dough
  8. Copyright Owner Denied Attorneys’ Fees In Suit Against Popcorn Time User–Cobbler v. Doe (Eric Goldman)
  9. AT&T beats Citi challenge over saying ‘thanks’ to customers
  10. Hassles mount for journalists in Turkey after failed coup 

COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING

  1. Canada the most expensive G7 country for cellphone service: study
  2. Thoughts on why Canadian prices are high (Timothy Denton)
  3. CBC Olympics commentator apologizes for saying Chinese swimmer ‘went out like stink, died like a pig’
  4. Rage at CBC commentator a common reaction during ‘anti-China Games’
  5. D’oh Canada: CBC calls entire race mixing up Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte
  6. Oops? CBC announcer mixes up lanes, declares Ryan Lochte winner over Michael Phelps
  7. Shoalts: Sure, Elliotte Friedman goofed, but he also showed grace under fire
  8. After biggest blunder of his career, CBC’s Elliotte Friedman wants no sympathy
  9. The Rio Olympics are having a big problem getting people to watch
  10. TV Ratings For The Olympics In Rio Are WAY Down Compared To London In 2012
  11. Every major cable TV company lost subscribers last quarter: Top pay-TV operators lost 665,000 subscribers in Q2 2016.
  12. TV news channels have finally figured out how to call Donald Trump a liar, and it’s glorious
  13. Dick Morris: Fox News Grew More Biased Under Ailes in Recent Years
  14. Bias in Cable News: Persuasion and Polarization (Gregory J. Martin & Ali Yurukoglu)
  15. ISPs and FCC Republicans celebrate FCC’s court loss on muni broadband: FCC critics glad that commission can’t preempt state laws.
  16. Broadband Industry Think Tank Claims Comcast Plan To Charge More For Privacy ‘Pro Consumer’
  17. Google Fiber Hasn’t Hit A ‘Snag,’ It’s Just Evolving
  18. Web firms fear EU’s plans for new telco rules will destroy encryption: European Commission mulls inclusion of OTT players such as WhatsApp in ePrivacy law.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

  1. Facebook legal settlement risks teens’ privacy
  2. Reddit tells label it won’t cough up IP address of prerelease music pirate: Music label has embarked on “an impermissible fishing expedition,” Reddit says.
  3. Privacy lawsuit over Gmail will move forward: New plaintiffs hope to push ahead with a class of people who never used Gmail.
  4. Linux bug leaves 1.4 billion Android users vulnerable to hijacking attacks: Off-path attack means malicious hackers can be located anywhere on the Internet.
  5. Group claims to hack NSA-tied hackers, posts exploits as proof: Extraordinary claim gets attention of security experts everywhere.
  6. Confirmed: hacking tool leak came from “omnipotent” NSA-tied group – Rare crypto implementation in ShadowBrokers dump connects it to Equation Group.
  7. Snowden speculates leak of NSA spying tools is tied to Russian DNC hack: Former NSA security scientist concurs exposure by “Equation Group” connected to DNC leak.
  8. The World Series of Hacking—without humans
  9. Seeking a future where networks patch themselves, DARPA stages an AI vs. AI smackdown.
  10. Snowden Docs Show NSA, New Zealand Spied On Pro-Democracy Activists
  11. The Internet Doesn’t Route Around Surveillance
  12. New air-gap jumper covertly transmits data in hard-drive sounds: “DiskFiltration” siphons data even when computers are disconnected from the Internet.
  13. Volkswagen Created A ‘Backdoor’ To Basically All Its Cars… And Now Hackers Can Open All Of Them
  14. Nova Scotia ordered to pay in rural high-speed internet court case: The province ‘went through a backdoor’ for confidential research, Nova Scotia Supreme Court rules
  15. University Tracks Students’ Movements Using WiFi, But Says It’s OK Because It’s Not Tracking Students
  16. Copperhead OS: The startup that wants to solve Android’s woeful security – A multi-billion-dollar megacorp, Google, apparently needs help to secure its OS.
  17. EU-US Privacy Shield: How to Certify
  18. Opinion: Retailers like J.Crew are obsessed with data. (And it’s killing your shopping experience.)

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