GAMES
- The history of video games in court
- Checking In: Blizzard Still Suing Hack/Cheat Makers For Copyright Infringement? Yup!
- Pokemon GO’s launch was an unqualified success – almost
- Nintendo shares up as Pokemon Go heads toward global launch
- Location, location, location: Pokémon GO’s unique strength and biggest problem: Niantic eyes sponsored locations just as the complaints from real-world businesses start to roll in
- Cops warn Pokémon Go players: Please don’t trespass to catch ‘em all – “Please use caution as I do not believe the game was intended to be used while driving.”
- Some public places want more Pokémon Go—but the Holocaust Museum does not: Follows anecdotal police, medical reports of people using the app to their detriment.
- Armed Robbers Use Pokémon Go To Find 9 Victims
- Armed muggers use Pokémon Go to find victims: Police warn that muggers can “add a beacon to a Pokéstop to lure more players.”
- Gamer finds dead body while testingPokémon Go’s GPS features: App requiring users to walk to physical locations leads to disturbing discovery.
- ‘Pokémon Go’ Is Grabbing ‘Full Access’ to Some Players’ Google Accounts
- You can cheat and play Pokémon Go on PC: Android emulators and GPS spoofing work, but expect to be banned for your efforts.
- How Pokémon Go is creating a barrier for gamers with disabilities
- How TV and Streaming Networks Hope to Benefit From the Pokemon Go Frenzy: Hulu sees 10% daily jump in Pokemon viewing
- Pokémon Go, explained: Everyone is suddenly catching Pokémon fever again. Here’s what’s going on.
- Tracing Pokémon Go’s roots back to the ’90s MMORPG Meridian 59
- Catch them all – Pokemon Go and the law
- Pokemon Go Hysteria Again Highlights How Media Is Happy To Be Gullible And Wrong — If It Means More Ad Eyeballs
- Pokémon Go is so yesterday as cell phone gambling hits the Vegas strip: Gamblers compete against other MGM resort gamers in bingo, slots, and video poker.
- Warner Brothers fined for paying YouTube celebs to promote game
- Warner Bros. settles FTC influencer charges: Charges involved Shadow of Mordor, PewDiePie and cash
- Warner Brothers gets fined by FTC, PewDiePie skates free
- Disclosing paid content legally – a practical guide for developers and influencers
- The Counter-Strike Gambling Scandal, Explained
- YouTubers Behind Counter-Strike Gambling Scandal Get Sued
- YouTuber Trevor ‘TmarTn’ Martin has issued an “apology” over the CSGO Lotto scandal.
- Mom takes on Valve, third-party “trading” sites, alleges “illegal scheme”: Suits call in-game skin system “an element of gambling and market economies.”
- YouTube corruption sinks even deeper into the gutter: Promoting illegal gambling could finally see governments on YouTube’s doorstep – and perhaps on Valve’s
- Valve can’t pass buck to third parties for teaching CS:GO kids to gamble – Opinion – Valve’s own Dota 2 and CS:GO much worse than third-party gambling sites.
- CS:GO gambling site accused of offering to rig bets for YouTubers
- Valve says it’s going after gambling sites that use Steam: Counter-Strike GO gambling sites asked to cease operations
- Valve demands that gambling sites cease operations through Steam: “We have no business relationships with any of these sites. We have never received any revenue from them,” says Valve’s Erik Johnson
- Blizzard casts silence on abusive World of Warcraft players
- G2A will allow developers to apply for royalties, adds seller verification: Controversial key reseller finally addresses major concern highlighted by Tinybuild’s Alex Nichiporchik
- China Forbids The Use Of English Words In Mobile Games
- Establishing Esports Oversight: The Groups, Issues, And Potential Challenges
- Wii U was expected to sell 100 million units: Nintendo talks about the failed console, and it now expects any new games to sell 2m units worldwide
- Microsoft quietly trims the scope of its ‘Play Anywhere’ Xbox initiative
- In an effort to find more players, Evolve is now free: Hope you didn’t buy the game last week or anything…
- Twitch’s research shows that livestreaming leads to better game sales
- Hollywood wants to make a TV show based on EA’s Battlefieldgames
- Jocks Without Borders: The majorly male spectators of e-sports are in league with a fantasy of globalized manhood
- Splash Damage sold to Chinese poultry firm: Leyou will acquire the developer from Paul Wedgwood, along with Fireteam and Warchest
- Record $18.6 billion games M&A to Q2 2016
- In the battle for gaming business, Vancouver is about to ‘git gud’: Quebec may lead in number of firms, but BC is closing in like a juggernaut
- LucasArts’ long lost, 30-year-old MMO is now preserved on Github: Habitat restoration required recovering a 300-pound, circa-1989 server.
- Block Stop: The theatre company taking live-action video games to the stage – A London company is using live-streamed content to enhance interactivity.
- Kojima: Games’ ability to convey emotions will soon surpass that of real people
DIGITAL
- 9th Circuit: It’s a federal crime to visit a website after being told not to visit it (Orin Kerr)
- TOS agreements require giving up first born—and users gladly consent: Study says participants also agreed to allow data sharing with NSA and employers.
- Employees Bound By Clickthrough Agreements–ADP v. Lynch (Eric Goldman)
- YouTube to the music industry: here’s the money: Google’s new report on piracy makes the case YouTube is a boon to the music industry
- Google responds to music biz critics, points to $2B it has paid out
- Google Issues Its Latest ‘Stop Blaming Us For Piracy’ Report
- Apple’s Plan to Own the Entire Music Industry
- Sony Pictures Legal Affairs VP Files Bogus DMCA Notice Because His Salary Is Listed On Wikileaks
- Minneapolis PD Issues Questionable DMCA Notice To Bury Its Controversial Recruitment Video
- Relatives of Palestinian attack victims sue Facebook for $1 billion in U.S.
- Families: Hamas on Facebook, so firm must pay $1B after terror deaths – Facebook will likely argue for protection under Section 230 of CDA.
- Section 230 Protects YouTube’s Removal of User’s Videos–Lancaster v. Alphabet (Eric Goldman)
- How technology disrupted the truth: Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
- Mom alerted to adult content on her teenage son’s Snapchat, so she sues: Snapchat spokesman: “We are sorry if people were offended.”
- Lawsuit Filed Against Snapchat Over Inappropriate Content Served To Minors Through Discover
- Live Footage of Shootings Forces Facebook to Confront New Role
- Facebook video shows black man killed by Minnesota police during traffic stop
- Philando Castile’s girlfriend says she filmed his shooting ‘so that the people could see’
- Baton Rouge Police Took Alton Sterling Surveillance Video Without a Warrant or Permission: The store’s owner said minutes after the deadly shooting, officers took a hard drive against his wishes and there’s no record they even asked a judge to do it.
- Witness videos and the conversation about race and policing
- The Gatekeepers Aren’t Gone: Viral content seems democratic. But it’s still mostly controlled by big media companies.
- The bias in our software: We’ve been sold the idea that social networks are neutral. They’re not.
- Activists Cheer On EU’s ‘Right To An Explanation’ For Algorithmic Decisions, But How Will It Work When There’s Nothing To Explain?
- How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes — and got caught: Faced with a class action suit, the company hired a CIA-linked intelligence firm to look into the plaintiffs and their lawyer, but a judge says they may have gone too far
- Twitter Prepares For NFL Live Stream With Wimbledon Coverage
- Twitter is talking to the NBA, MLS and Turner to buy rights to more sports streams: Twitter is looking to ink more NFL-style streaming deals.
- Smartphone=not-so-smart parenting?: Psychologists and other child development experts are exploring how parents’ use of technology affects kids and the best ways to help families reconnect in the Digital Age.
- Back to bricks and mortar: how e-commerce has embraced the real world – Many digitally born businesses are taking the plunge into physical retail as they tap into the rise of the experience economy
- TP-Link forgets to register domain name, leaves config pages open to hijack: The domain name’s new owners want $2.5 million to give it back.
- Virtual and augmented reality need a PG-13 moment
- Ashley Madison admits using fembots to lure men into spending money: The hookup site for cheaters admits its mistakes and tries to rebrand.
- Tesla’s Autopilot Driving Mode Is a Legal Nightmare
- Contracting for the Internet of Things’: Looking into the Nest (Guido Noto La Diega & Ian Walden)
- The Biggest Lie On The Internet: Ignoring The Privacy Policies And Terms Of Service Policies Of Social Networking Services (Jonathan Obar & Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch)
CREATIVITY
- Why a Canadian Composer’s Controversial 80s Work is Still Ahead of Today’s Copyright Laws
- The Tragic Downfall of British Media: How did the country that produced the BBC and the Economist fail so spectacularly at journalism in the lead up to Brexit?
- A Fight to Make ‘We Shall Overcome’ and ‘This Land Is Your Land’ Copyright Free
- Two More Songs Could Follow ‘Happy Birthday’ Into the Public Domain
- Ted Cruz’s Presidential Campaign Apparently Committed Copyright Infringement. Oops. (Eric Goldman)
- Campaign IP Violations Part 3 – Huckabee’s Campaign Pays Up
- Led Zep lawyers want $800k for defending “Stairway to Heaven” lawsuit: Lead attorney is billing at $330 an hour, says it’s “below” going rate.
- Long Island couple sues neighbors for trying to build their copyrighted mansion
- Fox News fair use claim for Facebook post of 9-11 image remains unresolved
- B.B. King estate, Universal sued over blues legend’s photos
- How this millennial entrepreneur makes dance moves go viral
- Inequality in 700 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race, & LGBT Status from 2007 to 2014
COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING
- Anchor Gretchen Carlson files lawsuit alleging “pervasive” sexual harassment at Fox News: Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has filed a shocking sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, claiming that Ailes retaliated against her and ultimately fired her for refusing his sexual advances — and for complaining about repeated sexual harassment from her former Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy.
- Watch Gretchen Carlson’s “Fox & Friends” Colleagues Routinely Make Sexist Comments at Her
- Gretchen Carlson files sexual harassment suit against Fox’s Ailes
- The most shocking details from Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit against FOX News CEO Roger Ailes
- Roger Ailes opts for secrecy, cowardice in face of Gretchen Carlson suit
- Gretchen Carlson’s Sexual-Harassment Lawsuit May Allow Murdoch Sons to Finally Oust Roger Ailes From Fox News
- How Rupert Murdoch’s media empire covered the Roger Ailes sex harassment suit
- ‘Daily Show’s’ Trevor Noah Defends Gretchen Carlson from Rampant Fox News Sexism
- Gretchen Carlson gets real
- CRTC faces allegations of racism at highest ranks: court documents
- D.C. Circuit Affirms FCC’s Net Neutrality Order
- Univision Sues Charter Communications Over Fee Payments: Media company accuses cable operator of using recent merger to try to pay lower rates
- Verizon ‘Competes’ With T-Mobile By Raising Prices, Then Denying It’s A Price Hike
- Big telcos promise awesome 5G—in exchange for weak net neutrality: BT, Vodafone, and chums all flex muscles, press for lighter regulation.
- European Telcos Threaten To Withhold Next Gen Wireless Upgrades If Net Neutrality Rules Passed
- Comcast Continues To Claim It’s ‘Not Feasible’ To Offer Its Programming To Third-Party Cable Boxes
- Here comes 5G: On July 14, the FCC will initiate a formal rule-making that will make the U.S. the first country in the world to open high-band spectrum for 5G networks and technologies.
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Privacy Shield approved by EU member states, but 4 nations abstain: Safe Harbour replacement deal expected to be signed with the US next week.
- EU-US Privacy Shield – What’s new in comparison with Safe Harbor?
- Future of Privacy Forum Statement Regarding Finalization of the US-EU Privacy Shield Agreement
- iOS version of Pokémon Go is a possible privacy trainwreck – No user data has been accessed, and Google and Niantic are working on fixes.
- Pokémon GO, augmented reality, and privacy
- Niantic acknowledges Pokémon Go security fears, says fix is imminent
- Sen. Franken asks Pokémon Go creator: Why all the privacy problems?: What’s being shared and with whom? And why not an “opt-in” system?
- Appeals Court Says Government Email Stored On Private Servers Is Still Subject To FOIA Requests
- Appeals Court Says That Sharing Passwords Can Violate Criminal Anti-Hacking Laws
- Three years after taking off Guy Fawkes mask, Kentucky Anon indicted
- ‘KYAnonymous,’ who drew attention to Ohio rape case, indicted by federal grand jury
- UK Tor operator hit with bizarre EU arrest warrant from Polish prosecutor: Authorities want to track down anonymous user who “insulted” a small-town mayor.
- Fifteen secret warrants in force granting bulk data collection in UK: Watchdog reveals for first time number of orders imposed on telephone and internet firms under Telecommunications Act
- UK’s secret, ongoing mass surveillance rigorously frisked by watchdog: Warrants so hush-hush, affected telcos weren’t allowed to keep copies.
- Reports Shows UK Police Improperly Accessed Data On Citizens Thousands Of TimesIn Russia and China, Big Brother is watching you online
- FDIC was hacked by China, and CIO covered it up
- Putin Says All Encryption Must Be Backdoored In Two Weeks
- Major VPN firm pulls out of Russia, blames country’s new spy law: Abrupt exit comes in wake of controversial Russian online snooping legislation.
- The Difficulty of Routing around Internet Surveillance States (Bruce Schneier)
- 10 million Android phones infected by all-powerful auto-rooting apps: First detected in November, Shedun/HummingBad infections are surging.
- Firms must directly notify people affected by data breaches: watchdog
- Do you have privacy rights on social media?
- Spoliation or Privacy “Right to be Forgotten”? – Google’s new service “My Activity” allows you to delete your history!
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