News of the Week; November 12, 2014

GAMES

1. Glu Mobile sues Hothead over “rip off” Kill Shot

+ Deer Hunter Vs. Killshot: Why Specific Expression Matters More Than Similar Shooter-Genre Staples

2. Blizzard president Mike Morhaime condemns hate and harassment in gaming at BlizzCon keynote

+ When Gamergate Targets You: Who The Hell Keeps Calling Me?

+ Actually, it’s about ethics in games journalism (meme collection)

3. Research: No Correlation Between ‘Violent Media Consumption’ and ‘Societal Violence’

4. Bungie exec swatted

5. Manuel Noriega Loses Right of Publicity Suit Against Activision

6. Telepathy is now possible using current technology

7. Game industry growing four times faster than US economy – ESA

8. Average age of mobile gamer drops seven years as kids and teens grab smartphones

9. Report: Just 6% of US mobile gamers provide 51% of revenue

10. Zynga loses another $57 million in Q3

11. Electronic Arts’ Ceo On Transforming The “Worst Company In The U.S.”

12. Why We Should Pay Attention To Candy Crush Saga & Other Casual Games

13. How ESports Influenced Activision’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

14. Atari gets into real-money gaming

15. gumi expands into Canada with new Vancouver office

16. Witcher 3 dev CD Projekt turns cluster-migraine-suffering fan into NPC

17. The Oculus Rift makes Elite: Dangerous amazing—and impossible to describe: The worst part about an awesome VR experience is you can’t share it with pix or video.

18. Football Manager: the pleasures and pitfalls of playing the world’s most addictive video game – Rupert Hawksley pays tribute to Football Manager, the video game so engrossing it has been cited in 35 divorce cases

19. The Capitalism of Late Archaeology: Alamogordo’s Atari Games on Ebay

DIGITAL

20. Aereo’s saga signals a chilling effect for innovation

21. Computer Scientists, Legal Experts Explain To Supreme Court Why APIs Are Not Copyrightable

22. Takedown of anti-Muslim YouTube video gets appeals court rehearing: Decision allows subjects of news coverage to veto “unflattering broadcasts.”

23. Law is Code: A Software Engineering Approach to Analyzing the United States Code

24. FTC Takes First Action Against Patent Trolls For Deceptive Sales, Phony Legal Threats

25. Will the FCC ruin the Internet?

+ President Obama Calls For A Free And Open Internet, Wants It Reclassified As A Utility

+ President Obama Offers Full-Throated Endorsement of Net Neutrality Rules and Enforcement

+ Anti Net Neutrality Crowd Reaches Deep For The Craziest Possible Response To President Obama’s Call For Real Net Neutrality Rules

26. Net Neutrality and Netflix Taxes: The Tension Between Government and Regulatory Agencies on Digital Policy (Michael Geist)

27. Americans know about digital snooping but can’t stop it, survey finds: 91 percent say we’ve “lost control over how personal information is collected.”

28. Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era (Pew Research Internet Project)

29. State-sponsored hackers target human rights groups, study says

30. Tor Developers, Privacy Wonks Desperately Searching To Figure Out How The Feds Broke Tor To Find Hidden Servers

31. Berlin’s digital exiles: where tech activists go to escape the NSA

32. Islamic Extremists Use YouTube’s Automated Copyright Dispute Process To Access Critics’ Personal Data

33. What the Law Can (and Can’t) Do About Online Harassment (Marlisse Silver Sweeney)

34. Twitter Launches New Tool That Lets Women Report Harassment

+ Twitter calls on a women’s advocacy group to collect data on harassment

+ If Twitter Won’t Handle Its Massive Harassment Problem, These Women Will

35. Not All Nerds: By imagining nerds as a race of their own, Silicon Valley tries to disguise its white supremacy.

36. Navigating Legal Issues in the Twittersphere

37. We Won’t Have an Internet Sales Tax Any Time Soon

38. Computer with human-like learning will program itself

CONSTRAINTS

39. The Era Of TV’s Media Dominance Will Come To An End In 2016 — Here’s The Evidence

+ TV Has An Advertising Problem — Here Comes The Blame Game: Third-quarter earnings from the largest television network owners show a tepid advertising environment. Blame Nielsen. Or Ebola. Or something.

40. Shaking off Spotify is easy for Taylor Swift; for everyone else, it’s complicated

+ If You’re Going To Complain About Spotify Payments, At Least Understand A Little Economics First

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