Video-Blog; News of the Week August 27, 2014
Will work out the bugs in sound and colour, but here is a first attempt at a short weekly video blog where focussing on the weeks news. This episode is a take on misogyny in and out of games, and its changing future.
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jon
News of the Week; August 27, 2014
GAMES
2. Nintendo files copyright claims to have Super Smash Bros. leaks removed
3. Trolls drive Anita Sarkeesian out of her house to prove misogyny doesn’t exist
4. The Porn Viewing Habits of Console Owners
5. Report: Adult women gamers now double the number of under-18 boys
6. Rockstar: Lohan’s GTA suit is “for publicity purposes”
7. Police Called On Game Creator Over Nuclear War Diagrams
8. “We’re very close to having the first death in VR”
9. EA Cracking Down on ‘FIFA 15’ Cheaters
+ EA cracks down on FIFA virtual currency sales
10. Star Wars: Commander Is Slow-Going Unless You Pay Up
11. The dominance of ‘free’ App Store games, as seen in one handy chart
12. Indie devs facing “mass extinction event” – Prince
13. Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official
+ Google-Twitch deal nixed by antitrust concerns – Report
+ Why Amazon Really Bought Twitch
14. Third of PS4 owners switched from Wii or Xbox
15. Sony’s PlayStation Network Attacked: 9 Questions Answered
19. Two fish are playing Street Fighter II and it is surprisingly entertaining
21. The ’80s Videogames That Built Castles From Words—And Changed My Life
22. Elite: the game that changed the world
23. Videogame Based On Borges Short Story Is In Fact Borgesian
24. The Bootleg Retro Console Culture Of Brazil
DIGITAL
26. BC Court Rules on Signing Away Your Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
27. The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Dignity versus Liberty (James Whitman, Yale Law School)
28. Is Technology Shifting Our Moral Compass?(Video)
29. How to Save the Net: Keep It Open (Vinton Cerf)
30. The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
31. Appeals court knocks out computer bingo patents
32. India makes ‘liking’ blasphemous content illegal
36. Why and How We Must Protect the Right to Film Cops in Ferguson
38. Hackers Unmask Anonymous Posters On Secret, Including App’s Founder
39. The extreme, addictive side of fantasy football
CONSTRAINTS
41. Getty Images Sued Over Settlement Demand Letter: ‘Unfair, Deceptive Scheme,’ Copyright Lawyers Claim
42. Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives be the Arbiters of What We See and Read? (Glenn Greenwald)
43. A Horrifying Interactive Map of Global Internet Censorship
jon
News of the Week; August 20, 2014
GAMES
1. Nintendo Goes Copyright On Woman Making Pokemon-Inspired Planters
2. Arbiter Orders Bungie to Return Stock to Marty O’Donnell
3. Sony: PS4 success is “important for the shape of the whole industry”
4. Call of Duty’s three-year cycle gives devs “freedom to fail” – Hirshberg
5. Robin Williams and His Longtime Love of Videogames
+ Robin Williams to be Immortalized in World of Warcraft
6. Pro Gaming Faces a Surprising Challenge: Doping
7. MineORama Organizers Disappear
8. DARPA Uses Preteen Gamers to Beta Test Tomorrow’s Military Software
12. Devs want to work for Valve more than themselves – Survey
13. The Insidious Influence of Blockbuster Cinema on Videogames
DIGITAL
14. What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson: Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson (by Zeynep Tufekci)
+ SWAT Team Shows Up In Ferguson, Detains Reporters Live Tweeting Their Actions
+ #Ferguson Exposes the Fault Lines Between Facebook and Twitter
15. These six lawsuits shaped the internet
16. The Internet’s Original Sin: It’s not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web (by Ethan Zuckerman)
17. A Magna Carta for the web (Tim Berners-Lee)
18. Everyone Knows Privacy Is About Power. Now What?(by Ryan Calo)
20. Delaware Passes Law to Give Heirs Rights to Digital Property
21. Data Analysis Of FCC Comments Reveals Almost No Anti-Net Neutrality Comments
+ Can We Kill This Ridiculous Shill-Spread Myth That CDNs Violate Net Neutrality? They Don’t
22. Apple investor sues execs over illegal poaching deals, cites Jobs as “walking antitrust violation”
23. Canada Completes Ratification of International Treaties on Copyright
24. U.S. Court Grants Order To Wipe Pirate Sites From The Internet
25. OnePlus Cancels Its Dumb Contest Following Uproars Of Sexism
26. Twitter Pollutes The Timeline
27. Ask’s CEO: “We won’t run a bullying site. If we can’t fix Ask.fm, we’ll shut it down”
28. Mark Zuckerberg Dumps Ice On Himself For ALS Awareness, Passes The Challenge Onto Bill Gates
29. 49ers’ ubiquitous stadium Wi-Fi network delivers to full house in NFL debut
CONSTRAINTS
30. Warner Bros. Wins Appeal Over Fictional Technology in ‘Dark Knight Rises’
+ The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with the Podcasting Troll
34. Huge Tournament Celebrates End of Oakland’s Bizarre 80-Year Pinball Ban
jon
News of the Week; August 13, 2014
GAMES
1. SNK Playmore Files Criminal Complaint Against Square Enix
3. Big Fish accused of “unfair or deceptive” trade practices
4. Codemasters offers refunds for PC port of mobile Colin McRae
5. Kim Kardashian: Hollywood And The Viral “Oops”
6. Twitch Muting Video That Contains Copyrighted Audio
+ Twitch Adds Appeal Button to Videos Affected By Automated Copyright Enforcement System
+ Twitch Muting Further Demonstrates Copyright Law Needs To Relax For Its Own Good
+ Andrew Eisen Video: Twitch Does Not Need To Mute Sound in Videos
7. Candy Crush Saga publisher King getting pummeled by market after weak Q2
8. World of Warcraft Loses 800K Subscribers in the Last Three Months
10. Take-Two loses $35.4 million in first quarter
11. Father Takes Sons to the Middle East to Show Them the Difference Between Real War and Video Game War
12. Rutgers players upset about end of college football video game series
14. Activision Teases the Return of Sierra
+ Activision resurrects Sierra thanks to good trademark practices (Jas Purewal)
15. PlayStation 4 will let you play friends’ games without buying them this fall
16. PlayStation 4 hits 10m sales mark
17. Xbox One Getting Mobile TV Streaming, Plus DLNA And USB Playback
18. Why Game Accessibility Matters
19. Playing Games Increases Brain Size
20. Brains At Play
22. Games Studies: the international journal of computer game research (volume 14 issue 1August 2014 ISSN:1604-7982)
DIGITAL
23. Monkey’s selfie at center of copyright brouhaha: Wikipedia says the public, not the photojournalist, owns the rights to ape’s pic.
+ How That Monkey Selfie Reveals The Dangerous Belief That Every Bit Of Culture Must Be ‘Owned’
24. Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon
+ Amazon Gets Increasingly Nervous
+ In a Fight With Authors, Amazon Cites Orwell, but Not Quite Correctly
27. Judge Rejects Comically Low $324.5M Settlement To Tech Workers Who Were Cheated Out Of Fair Wages
30. Apple and Samsung Agree To Drop All Patent Lawsuits Outside the U.S.
31. President Obama Does Not Support Internet ‘Fast Lanes’
+ FCC Chairman Lines Up With President Obama on Fast Lanes
32. Snapchat Is Now The #3 Social App Among Millennials
33. Could Red Bull Become the New ESPN?
34. Foursquare kills off the “social media” pretense of data collection
37. Quarantine for Cyberbullies: The Latest Strategy in the Fight Against Offensive Social Media Content
38. Who has better online privacy? The U.S. or EU?
39. How a Simple Spambot Became the Second Most Powerful Member of an Italian Social Network
CONSTRAINTS
40. Allergy to Originality: Mark Twain and the Remix Nature of All Creative Work, Animated
41. Reagan Biographer Claims ‘Copyright Infringement’ Because Another Biographer Used The Same Facts
43. Netflix surpasses HBO in subscriber revenue: New media out earns old—with a smaller customer base.
jon
News of the Week; August 6, 2014
GAMES
1. Artist claims she invented Angry Birds, files complaint seeking compensation
4. Of Doom Metal, Women, And Videogames
5. Shock study: Kids playing video games over an hour a day are better adjusted
6. Study: Play of ‘Risk-Glorifying’ Video Games Can Exacerbate Deviant Behavior
7. Bomb Gaza pulled from Google Play
8. Hacker crack squad hitting the video game industry with IP-stealing attacks (concerns theft of “source code”)
9. More than 20 million people watched the most lucrative video game tournament ever
10. The Case For and Against Game Subscriptions in the App Store
11. Strong PlayStation 4 sales keep Sony in the black
12. Metal Gear Solid on PS4 triples Xbox One version sales
13. PS4, Xbox One doubling last gen sales – NPD Canada
14. China’s Xbox One and games will be totally region locked
15. Sony And EA Experiment With New Business Models For Older Games
16. A Father’s Struggle To Make A Game After Cancer Killed His Son
DIGITAL
17. OTW files amicus brief in Capitol Records vs Vimeo
19. Copyright Office Rejected My Attempt To Copyright A Tweet
21. What Is Privacy?: It’s also not so simple… (danah boyd)
22. Privacy and Data Security Harms
23. Bullying Is A Problem For All Of Us, And The App Secret Needs To Do Something To Prevent It
25. Leak Lets You Send Anonymous Emails
26. The NFL Announces It’s Tracking RFID Chips On Every Player For 2014
27. Elon Musk says artificial intelligence is ‘potentially more dangerous than nukes’
28. Chinese Communist Party-Backed Tech Giants Bring Censorship To The Global Stage
31. Dear America, Would You Please Give Edward Snowden His Medal Of Freedom Already?
32. Twitter Pushing DOJ, FBI To Let It Disclose More Info on National Security Requests
33. In the age of Reddit, can the Internet ever really grow up?
34. CRTC Finds Rogers Engaged in Unjust Discrimination With Its Domestic Roaming Agreements
35. FCC chair accuses Verizon of throttling unlimited data to boost profits
+ Verizon to FCC: We Throttle Unlimited Data Users to Incentivize Using Less Data
36. MLB Comes Out Against FCC’s ‘Fast Lanes’ Plan
37. Quantifying Comcast’s Monopoly Power
38. Adam Carolla Won’t Let Company Drop Podcast Patent Infringement Case Against Him
40. Microsoft sues Samsung over Android patent fees
CONSTRAINTS
41. The Ambush at Sheridan Springs: How Gary Gygax Lost Control of Dungeons & Dragons
42. How Art Became Advertising
44. Artist uses DMCA to remove criticism of his impossibly-shaped female characters:
45. Randy Queen takes issue with Tumblr posts using images from his Darkchylde series.
47. How one man’s lies almost destroyed the comics industry
jon
News of the Week; July 30, 2014
GAMES
1. Rovio Files Trademark Lawsuit Against Young Star Toys & Gifts
2. Federal Judge Approves Settlements in NCAA Video Game Lawsuit
4. Report: EA Snuck SecuROM DRM in Free ‘The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection’
+ Should virtual theft be treated like real world theft? A UK MP says yes.
+ Should Stealing in Video Games Be Punishable in the Real World?
7. No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry
8. Pink and Blue Pixel$: Gender and Economic Disparity in Two Massive Online Games (Lehdonvirta, Ratan, Kennedy & Williams)
9. The world of bizarre Japanese dating sims is invading America
10. GaymerX founder says NIS America backed out of sponsorship
+ NIS America and GaymerX Kiss and Make Up
+ Nintendo records quarterly loss of nearly 10bn Yen
11. Game developers, watch out! German data protection authorities publish guidelines for mobile apps
12. Surveillance & Society Vol. 12, No. 3 (2014): Special Issue on Surveillance Gaming and Play
Including – 1. “Surveillant Assemblages of Governance in Massively Multiplayer Online Games: A Comparative Analysis”; 2. “Surveillance and Community: Language Policing and Empowerment in a World of Warcraft Guild”; 3. “Getting Played: Gamification and the Rise of Algorithmic Surveillance”; 4. “Games of Drones: The Uneasy Future of the Soldier-Hero in Call of Duty: Black Ops II”; 5. “Creative Misuse as Resistance: Surveillance, Mobile Technologies, and Locative Games”; 6. “The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Google, Ingress, and the Gift of Surveillance”; 7. “’I had no credit to ring you back’: Children’s strategies of negotiation and resistance to parental surveillance via mobile phones”; 8. “Gaming Privacy: a Canadian case study of a children’s co-created privacy literacy game”; 9. “Enclosures at Play: Surveillance in the Code and Culture of Videogames”; 10. “Reporting From the Snooping Trenches: Changes in Attitudes and Perceptions Towards Behavior Tracking in Digital Games”; 11. “Watching Us Play: Postures and Platforms of Live Streaming”; 12. “Diverting and diverted glances at cameras: playful and tactical approaches to surveillance studies”; 13. “Playdates with Big Brother: Playfully Repurposing Surveillance Cameras to Build Communities”; 14. “Surveillance Chess”.
14. No Man’s Sky: A Vast Game Crafted by Algorithms
15. EA improves revenues and profit in Q1, delays Dragon Age
16. Sony: EA Access wouldn’t provide “value” for PlayStation owners
17. PS4 to get 3D Blu-Ray support
18. Gamer discovers his deceased father’s ghost on an old Xbox game, challenges it to a race
19. Learn how to copy, and know when to steal
20. Gaming Tax Credits: A Developer’s Guide to Free Money
DIGITAL
21. Yet Another Court Rules That Digital Data Is Not Property
22. What Is Public?: It’s so simple, right? (by Anil Dash)
23. UK Government Report Recommends Ending Online Anonymity
24. Plagiarism in the Internet age: The issue isn’t copying, it’s attribution
25. Does Internet Addiction Excuse the Death of an Infant?
26. EU regulators to Google: “Right to forget” needs to go worldwide
27. French blogger owes $2,000 in damages for review ‘too prominent’ on Google
28. The Evidence Is In: Patent Trolls Do Hurt Innovation (HBR Blog)
29. USPTO Alice Corp. guidelines provide concrete guidance on abstract ideas
30. Time for digital emancipation (Doc Searls)
31. What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: What makes commenters less civil, and the rise of digital longform (Nieman Journalism Lab)
32. How Informed Consent Has Failed
33. Data privacy isn’t political — it’s personal
34. We Experiment On Human Beings!
+ OkCupid reveals it’s been lying to some of its users. Just to see what’ll happen.
35. The internet is a politically and culturally loaded tool, particularly when it comes to censorship
36. FISA Court Judges Keep Buying Verizon Stock; Wonder What They Know…
37. An epic battle in streaming music is about to begin, and only a few will survive
38. Uncovering Algorithms: Looking inside the Facebook news feed
39. Google ordered by BC court to block websites: Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack (Updated)
40. Instagram’s Forthcoming Photo Messaging App Bolt Could Face Legal Trouble
41. Unlocking Your Cell Phone Is Still Illegal, But Probably Not For Long
42. Microsoft still doesn’t get why the iPhone succeeded
43. Experience James Joyce’s Ulysses in Virtual Reality, Using the Oculus Rift Headset
CONSTRAINTS
45. Artist sues after TV show films Montreal building that he had tagged with graffiti
jon
News of the Week; July 23, 2014
GAMES
2. Philips Win Patent Infringement Suit Against Nintendo
3. Bungie pays Halo composer $95k over dismissal
4. Grand Theft Likeness: The Story of Lindsay Lohan and Lacey Jonas
6. Kickstarter Suspends ‘Areal’ Crowd-Funding Campaign
7. Yogscast to ‘Yogventures’ Backers: We’re Not Obligated To ‘Do Anything’
8. Gamasutra’s Game Developer Salary Survey 2014 Highlights the Gender Gap in Video Games Industry
9. Think the nsa is bad? Games are masters of surveillance.
+ Apple scolded by Europe over in-app purchase protections
+ EU regulation of free to play games: hot topic or hot air?
11. Retro revival: Warner Bros. options movie rights to Space Invaders game
12. Hunger Games film studio Lionsgate partners with Finland’s Next Games
13. Why the Kim Kardashian Game Is Legitimately Good
14. ESPN dips its cleats into the e-sports pool with Dota 2 partnership
+ Valve boss Gabe Newell interviewed by ESPN: ‘The Internet is changing what sports is’
+ Dota 2 team pockets $5 million at The International
15. Civilization 5 mod lets you exploit migrant workers in the ‘first true’ FIFA World Cup sim
16. Modders are developers – it’s time to stop treating them differently
17. Key Sony Gaming Websites Go Down Because They Let Their Domains Expire
18. PlayStation 4 still best-selling console, six months running
19. “Consolidation crush”: 5 drivers of $12.5B games acquisitions
20. Eutechnyx restructuring business
21. Games tax relief gets EU greenlight
22. Microsoft Laying Off 18K Employees, Closing Xbox Entertainment Studios
23. Vivendi Considered Firing Kotick Over Buyout
25. How the team behind The Witcher conquered Poland
DIGITAL
26. Pirate Bay traffic has doubled post-ISP blocks
27. Copyright Skeptic: We Don’t Need More Copyright Laws
28. Google processes millions of useless DMCA notices
29. Copyright Board’s new SOCAN user generated content tariff
+ YouTube, Facebook, Netflix liable to pay for music in Canada rules Copyright Board
30. AEREO – Everything Old is New Again (Mark Cuban Blog)
+ Copyright Office To Aereo: Quack All You Want, We Don’t Think You’re A Cable Service
31. The Details About the CIA’s Deal With Amazon
32. Snowden Calls On Developers To Champion Privacy By Design
+ Edward Snowden: ‘If I end up in chains in Guantánamo I can live with that’ – video interview
+ A Convicted Hacker and an Internet Icon Join Forces to Thwart NSA Spying
35. Over One Million Americans Submit Comments to FCC About Net Neutrality Changes
+ Did Verizon accidentally admit it’s slowing down Netflix traffic? Level 3 thinks so
+ Read Netflix’s plea to ban paid “fast lanes” on the internet
36. Welcome to the Hotel California: ISPs Who Won’t Take No For An Answer
+ Russia caught editing Wikipedia entry about downed Malaysian airliner
38. New York state proposes sweeping Bitcoin regulations—and they’re strict
39. 3 Years Later, Google+ Drops Its Dumb Real Name Rule And Apologizes
CONSTRAINTS
40. Pete Seeger on Combinatorial Creativity, Originality, Equality, and the Art of Dot-Connecting
jon
News of the Week; July 16, 2014
GAMES
2. In Re Nintendo of Am., Inc.
3. Warner Bros. Censorship of Greenpeace Lego Video Backfires
4. ‘MineORama’ Organizer Cancels Event at Last Minute After Selling $540K in Tickets
5. Minecraft: how a change to the rules is tearing the community apart
6. Soccer Video Game Developed by College Students Proves to Reduce Violence Against Women and Girls
7. Frustration vs. Video Game Violence in Real-Life Aggression
8. Can joy be more ‘adult’ than violence?
9. This free, quick game shares the risks and rewards of coming out
10. Gender Differences in Emotional Responses to Cooperative and Competitive Game Play
11. Blizzard working to improve inclusivity – Morhaime
12. Kim Kardashian Video Game on Track to Earn $200 Million
13. Fan Pirates Game, Accidentally Tells Developer About It
14. Video Games Make a Convenient Scapegoat for Weak Students
15. Google’s Regina Dugan Joins Zynga Board
16. Another Study Suggests Acting Immorally In Video Games Actually Makes Players More Moral
17. ‘Game Journalism Simulator’ is a Real Thing, Apparently
18. Blizzard will launch Diablo III in China
19. Can video games be sports?
20. Where Virtual Meets Real: Ingress, a Mobile Game From Google
21. The Most Expensive Video Games Ever Made
22. After 23 years a new Super Mario World glitch is discovered
23. A Quest for the Secret Origins of Lost Video-Game Levels
24. Where have Japan’s gamers gone?
25. Microsoft CEO commits to Xbox
26. Richard Bartle: “Free-to-play has a half-life”
DIGITAL
27. American Bar Association urges against file sharing lawsuits
28. Canadians That Access U.S. Netflix May Be in a Legal Grey Zone, But They Are Not Stealing
29. Aereo: Hey, we’re a cable company after all!
30. The Lost and Found Legacy of Barbara Ringer
32. Vagina selfie for 3D printers lands Japanese artist in trouble
33. FTC Sues Amazon Over In-App Purchases
34. Senator Asks FTC to Look Into Facebook Mood Experiment
+ Hard Questions About Big Data
35. German Cartel Office Says Google, Other Tech Giants Could Be Regulated Like Utilities
37. Netflix Performance on Verizon Continues to Decline in June
38. The Most Frustrating And Painful Phone Call We’ve Ever Heard (Comcast/consumer)
39. Google, Canon, Dropbox and Others Pool Patents to Ward Off Trolls
CONSTRAINTS
40. A Game as Literary Tutorial: Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers
41. When all you have is a Captain Hammer …
jon
News of the Week; July 9, 2014
GAMES
1. NCAA Video Game Settlement Payments Detailed
2. Lindsay Lohan sues makers of GTA V over look-alike complaints
+ Lindsay Lohan’s ‘GTA 5’ Lawsuit: ‘The Kindest Thing You Could Say Is It’s A Publicity Stunt’
3. Hackers under fire for Mario Kart 8 Wii U modding
4. DRM not the way to fight piracy – Paradox
5. Report: Crytek UK staff not getting paid, leave studio en masse
6. British regulator: EA “misled” by calling Dungeon Keeper free-to-play
+ UK Advertising Regulator Nixes EA’s Dungeon Keeper Advertisement Due To Microtransactions
7. ‘Male Only’ Hearthstone eSports Competition Angers Gaming Community
+ Op-ed: E-sports cannot fight segregation with segregation
8. Video Games Didn’t Make Me Gay, But They Did Make Me Proud
9. EA’s Peter Moore Is Wrong About Video Game And Music Distribution
10. Moral Combat: Do Violent Video Games Make Us Reflect On Morality?
+ Report: Western Australian Amendment Meddles With R18+ Rating13. Free Video Games Say Pay Up or Wait, Testing Players’ Patience
12. TIGA and Google publish extensive report on UK games funding
13. Perfect World and meat supplier acquire Warframe dev
14. Science Still Doesn’t Understand Video Games
15. British tabloid claims games are as addictive as heroin, game journalists respond in kind
16. Freemium games are a chance to teach kids how to manage their money
17. I Won $9 for Wasting Three Hours on a Mobile Game
18. 85 per cent of top grossing apps are games
19. Mobile could push games to $100 billion by 2017 – Digi-Capital
DIGITAL
20. The Truth About Tinder and Women Is Even Worse Than You Think
+ Stop Erasing Women from Tech History
21. The Basic Rules of Dungeons and Dragons Next Have Some Cool Things To Say About Gender Identity
22. Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (study)
+ ICO to assess compliance of Facebook study with data protection laws
+ Canada’s privacy watchdog to press Facebook on ’emotional’ study
+ Facebook charged with FTC violations for messing with users’ minds
+ Will Facebook Backlash Kill Scientists’ Data Dream?
23. British Columbia Privacy Act trumps Facebook’s jurisdiction selection clause
24. Online privacy protection for kids lagging in Canada
25. EU calls for radical copyright reform in light of internet’s disruption
26. The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (film)
27. Can you trademark an internet meme?
28. Apple suffers Siri patent case defeat in China
29. Why More Start-Ups Are Sharing Ideas Without Legal Protection
30. Hollywood Studios Tried To Add File Sharing Sites To New Zealand’s Child Porn Blacklist
31. In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are
32. Now on Your Cellphone Bill, Services You Never Wanted
33. YouTube Outs Web Traffic Slow Pokes
35. Google Alerts British News Outlets About Deleting Their Links
36. Virtual Currencies: European Banking Authority Publishes Opinion
38. UK tax breaks voted the best in Europe
jon
News of the Week; July 2, 2014
1. Oculus Portrays Accuser as Opportunist, in Lawsuit Over Virtual Reality Technology
+ Oculus: ZeniMax lawsuit is sour grapes over missed investment opportunity
2. The Future Is Now: Cheating In Online Games Leads To Arrests In Japan
3. First Defendant in 38 Studios Lawsuit Settles for $4.4 Million
4. Ubisoft Found ‘Not Guilty’ in DRM Infringement Case
5. Lindsay Lohan Sues Rockstar Over Grand Theft Auto V
6. Microsoft court order has removed Chess 2: The Sequel’s servers
7. King Candy’s Trademark Attempt at Crushing The Banner Saga
8. Chinese Mobile Games Giant Embroiled in Bribery Scandal
9. Gamblit Gaming Software Gets Certified By U.K. Gambling Commission
10. The legal loophole of advergames: How ads disguised as video games are impacting today’s youth
11. Twitch.tv – 1 million channels and rising
12. Here are the countries bringing in the most video game revenue
13. Building a Warship for the Video Game Generation
14. Killer drone report downplays “PlayStation mentality” of pilots
15. BioWare Reveals First Gay Companion Character in ‘Dragon Age: Inquisition’
16. Research: Bad Behavior in Games Can Lead to Pro-Social Behavior In Real Life
17. New Toledo Museum of Art exhibit examines the artistry of video games, and you can play Pac-Man, too
18. 10 Best Video Games Made In Vancouver
19. Aereo “Pauses” Service in Light of Supreme Court Defeat
+ Supreme Court Uses The Bizarre ‘Looks Like A Cable Duck’ Test To Outlaw Aereo
+ We’ll Never Know the Internet We Lost
+ The walls erected by traditional media
+ Analysis: Aereo’s death leaves cloud computing hanging in the balance
+ The Aereo Decision – Canadian Content?
+ Four Unanswered Questions From Aereo’s Supreme Court Loss
+ Why the Aereo Shutdown Will Be a Disaster for Broadcast TV
+ Even the Editor of Facebook’s Mood Study Thought It Was Creepy
+ Facebook Says It’s Sorry. We’ve Heard That Before.
21. F.T.C. Accuses T-Mobile of Fraud in Billing
22. Google begins removing links under “right to be forgotten” ruling
23. The NSA Revelations All in One Chart
24. Cops must have a warrant to search cell phones, rules Supreme Court
25. Facebook threatened with contempt for fighting NY over user privacy
26. Tinder Is Target of Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
+ Amid sexual harassment allegations, dating app Tinder suspends co-founder
27. The end of the Canadian “iPod tax” saga
28. California Legalizes Bitcoin and Other Cash Alternatives
29. Why More Start-Ups Are Sharing Ideas Without Legal Protection
30. The lost promise of the Internet: Meet the man who almost invented cyberspace
jon
News of the Week; June 25, 2014
1. Nintendo loses UK patent ruling to Philips
+ The indefiniteness of Father’s Day fun – Triton Tech of Texas v. Nintendo of America
+ After losing patent suit, Nintendo plans appeal
3. Net neutrality the biggest issue facing games – Lanning
4. “Gamers are not criminals and they do not need DRM”
5. Spy Satellite Agency Wants to Utilize ‘Video game Technology’ for Improving Data Collection
6. Witcher 3 Design Documents Stolen, Leaked on Reddit
7. EA Looking Into Possible ‘False’ Bans in Battlefield 3
8. Ubisoft Comments on ‘Watch Dogs’ PC Mod
9. Ubisoft: Future Protagonists Will be More Diverse
10. How Making Games Helped Her Deal With Evil
11. How video games can affect adolescent brains
12. As game players diversify, developers start to rethink the stars of their games
13. Here’s how exploitative Minecraft servers can be
14. What Nintendo’s Top Game Creators Think Of Minecraft
15. EZK’s Take on Fair Use and Let’s Play Videos
16. Game software market to hit $100 billion by 2018 – DFC
17. IGDA: Over Half of Developers Surveyed Think Unions are a Good Idea
18. Crytek misses payroll for months – Report
19. Ubisoft responds to Quebec tax relief cuts
20. Xbox head on stand-alone Kinect: They’ll buy it
21. HB Studios: No licenses, no problem
22. How indie film financing could shape the future of games
23. What Are eSports? A Pro Videogaming Guide for the Rest of Us
24. Huh: School Offering Real League Of Legends Scholarship
25. The Kiss That Changed Video Games
26. How A Seemingly Impossible Game Is Possible
27. The five most disruptive ideas in video game design
28. Linden Lab is building a spiritual sequel to Second Life
29. Doing it wrong: World of Warcraft player grinds to max level by picking herbs in training level
30. Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo in Broadcasters’ Challenge
+ ABC v. Aereo (SCOTUS decision)
+ Statement from Aereo CEO and Founder Chet Kanojia on United States Supreme Court Decision
31. Canada’s New Trademarks Act Receives Royal Assent
32. Super Kat-Exclusive: here’s Commission’s draft White Paper on EU copyright
33. Of Course Tesla Wasn’t Just Being Altruistic In Opening Up Its Patents: That’s The Whole Point!
34. Chromebook Buyers Upset at Cutoff of Promised Free Data
+ Google gives $150 apology to Chromebook owners deprived of Verizon data
35. That Story You’ve Read About YouTube ‘Blocking’ Indie Artists… Yeah, That’s Not Accurate
36. (U.S) Supreme Court Recognizes Limits in Software Patentability
+ Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank (decision)
37. Bill S-4 Passes Senate, Despite Supreme Court Ruling Against Warrantless Access
39. Privacy and surveillance: 8 things every Canadian should know
40. House votes 293-123 to cut funding for NSA spying on Americans
42. Exposed: Massive mobile malware network used by cops globally
44. Canadian Court Asserts the Right to Censor Google Results Around the World
46. The richest man in Vegas has declared war on internet gamblers
47. Rights holders can control resale of digital content that is not software, rules German court
48. The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
49. These Haptic Gloves Can Teach Your Brain Skills Even When You’re Not Paying Attention
jon
News of the Week; June 18, 2014
1. Nintendo Wins Patent Infringement Lawsuit Appeal
2. How Apple TV might disrupt Microsoft and Sony
3. Research: ‘Polite’ Female and ‘Rude’ Male Gamers Accepted Most in Online Games
4. “Inclusivity always seems to end up on the cutting board”
+ Far Cry 4 to also skip playable female character due to workload
+ Animating the Ladies: Ubisoft fundamentally doesn’t get it
+ If Our Videogames Are Going to Be Sexist, Let’s at Least Be Honest About It
6. Looking at Link Between Violent Video Games and Lack of Empathy
7. Kojima: Bigger budgets make authorship more difficult
8. Mobile games market to hit $28.9 billion by 2016 – Juniper
9. Game subsidies cut as Quebec slashes spending – report
10. The world’s largest video game collection sells for $750k at auction
11. Valve Bans CS: Go Community Content Creators for Using Copyrighted Artwork
12. Notch clarifies Minecraft EULA changes
13. The DNA of Candy Crush Saga and Other Successful Match-3 Games
14. The Golden Curve: Determining player value in freemium apps
15. Is Sony’s PS4 Eating Microsoft and Nintendo’s Lunch?
16. Capcom shareholders reject anti-takeover plan
17. Nordic Games Owns ‘THQ’ Trademark
18. New AFM deal with Microsoft is welcome news for game musicians
19. PS4, Xbox One seeing much higher digital download attach rates
20. Oops: Xbox Advertisement Results In Aaron Paul Turning On Your Console
21. The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic
22. Canadian Supreme Court Says Government Needs To Get A Warrant To Get Your Internet Info
+ Supreme Court Delivers Huge Victory for Internet Privacy & Blows Away Gov’t Plans for Reform
+ SCC protects Internet users’ expectation of privacy in online activities
23. Congressman asks NSA to provide metadata for “lost” IRS e-mails
24. Microsoft challenges US gov’t warrant to access overseas customer data
+ Apple, Cisco, AT&T join Microsoft in fight against global search warrant
25. Get a warrant for cell phone location tracking, US appeals court says
26. Global Deletion Orders? B.C. Court Orders Google To Remove Websites From its Worldwide Index
+ Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack
27. Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions
28. The Facebook War: Would taking down the social network justify a real-world attack?
29. Why Online Tracking Is Getting Creepier
30. We Need to Regulate Technology That Can Detect Your Emotions
31. Thoughts on Privacy: The right way forward.
32. AT&T Phone Records, Social Security Numbers Hacked
33. FCC Looking Into Netflix’s Complaints About Verizon, Comcast
+ FCC gets Comcast, Verizon to reveal Netflix’s paid peering deals
34. Apple Settles E-Book Pricing Antitrust Suit
35. Tesla will use patents to subvert patent system
36. New study suggests patent trolls really are killing startups
38. The tech industry’s God complex is getting out of control
39. Marc Andreessen and the Inevitability of Catastrophic Ideas
40. YouTube to block indie labels who don’t sign up to new music service
41. The Dark Side Of Facebook, Where People Lie, Steal, And Make Millions
43. Winter Has Come for TV Advertising: YouTubers Are Getting More Viewers Than ‘Game of Thrones’
44. 7th Circuit confirms that Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain
46. Hackers are the immune system for the information age
47. Iraqis Turn to Whisper to Circumvent Government’s Social Media Blackout
jon
News of the Week; June 11, 2014
1. Activision Blizzard CEO must face lawsuit over $8.2-billion buyout
2. NCAA Settles Video Game Lawsuit
3. Marty O’Donnell files lawsuit against Bungie for unpaid benefits
4. Nintendo Shuts Down European HQ, Lays Off 130
5. Snatching Atari Back From the Grave, Again
6. Video Games Developed and Published in Canada Central to 2014 E3 Expo
7. E3 2014: EA talks of “commitment to put players first”
8. Mattrick: Zynga left its lunchbox unattended
9. Girly video games: rewriting a history of pink
10. Aisha Tyler on Race, Sexism and Video Games (Q&A)
11. No female Assassin’s Creed characters a “reality of development”
+ Assassin’s Creed’s female problems: Devs respond
12. Ubisoft, NIS America, and OUYA Support GaymerX
13. Award-winning game composer takes musicians union to task
14. FCC considers net neutrality rules, could impact video game industry
15. Study: Gamers are more educated, more social than the people who make fun of them
16. Guantanamo Prisoners Get to Play Video Games in a Recliner — While Being Force-Fed
17. Swedish Government’s ‘Democreativity’ Reveals First Round of Games
18. Why Would Google Want to Buy Video-Game Livestreaming Site Twitch?
19. Super Evil Megacorp Raises $15 Million to Prove Mobile Gaming Can Be Hardcore
20. Oculus signs exclusive content from Words With Friends creator
21. What Oculus Rift and virtual reality mean for sex, death, violence, and identity
23. Privacy Class Action Against Facebook Certified by BC Court
+ B.C.’s Privacy Act trumps jurisdiction selection clause
24. Texas Appeals Court Vacates Order Commanding Google To Hunt Down Third Party Content And Destroy It
25. Apple starts banning apps that reward video views and social sharing
26. Telecom giant Rogers got 175,000 info requests from government
+ Rogers’ Shocking Admission: It Does Not Track Disclosures of Subscriber Information to Authorities
27. Microsoft fights U.S. search warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server
28. Ars tests Internet surveillance—by spying on an NPR reporter
29. Vodafone Says Some Governments Have Direct Access to Eavesdrop
30. US Secret Service wants software to “detect sarcasm” on social media
31. Google will flag search results erased due to “right to be forgotten”
32. Yes, Verizon Is At Fault In Netflix Dispute; It’s Not Delivering What It Sold Customers
33. The best explanation of net neutrality and why it matters, ever, period.
34. Public Responds Negatively to FCC’s Net Neutrality Proposal
35. Google, the fight to forget, and the right to remember
36. Google’s university book scanning can move ahead without authors’ OK
+ USCA decision in Author’s Guild Inc. v. HathiTrust
37. The Samuelson Clinic releases “Is it in the Public Domain?” handbook
38. EU Court Of Justice: Just Viewing Stuff Online Isn’t Infringing On Copyright
39. Okkervil River Responds to Don Henley: Copyright Laws Kill Art
40. Should you have a right to sell your ebooks and digital music?
41. E.U. to Launch Formal Investigation Into Apple’s Irish Tax Deal
42. Cat Videos, Binge TV Watching Will Account for 84 Percent of Internet Traffic, Cisco Says
43. Netflix to Verizon: Nope, Your Congested Pipes Are Still Your Fault
44. Theater chain bans Google Glass
45. Your Personality Type, Defined by the Internet
46. The Forgotten Firsts: 10 Vintage Versions of Modern Technology
jon
News of the Week; June 4, 2014
1. Lawyers win big in Electronic Arts college sports settlement
2. Honda Jet Removed from ‘FlightGear’ After Trademark Complaint
3. Creator Of Flappy Bird Clone Claims His Duplication Is Covered By Trademark
4. Uplay’s Poor Performance Affecting ‘Watch Dogs’ and Other Games on Multiple Platforms
6. Riot Bans Two Pro ‘League of Legends’ Players
7. Gamers Bullying Jewish Students Online
8. Fired Community Manager Says He Was A Victim Of ‘Outrage Culture’
9. When geopolitics meets the game industry. A study of Arabic video games and what they teach us
10. Why did Fox and Murphy sign ‘non-disclosure agreements’ with 38 Studios?
11. Protestors Tell RI Lawmakers: Don’t Bail Out 38 Studios
12. EA Shutters Warhammer Online Developer Mythic
13. U.K. Rag Tries To Link Teen Suicides With Call of Duty
14. Glen Beck Criticizes ‘Watch Dogs’
15. Newzoo Report Predicts Global Gaming Revenue of Over $100 Billion by 2017
16. Take-Two CEO skeptical of Oculus’ broad appeal
17. The Next Eminem/Activision Deal: How Big Data Can Reinforce Gut Instincts
18. eSports viewing nearly doubled in 2013 as games-watching fanbase grew
19. Technology And Video Games Make Kids Think Differently About Old Questions
20. How to Dig Up a Landfill: The history, hurdles and local politics behind the search for E.T.
22. Why has the Canadian government given up on protecting our privacy?
23. Critics decry new Privacy Commissioner’s appointment
24. Snowden: NSA Revealed Only One Email, Shows NSA Lied Before
25. The Top 5 Claims That Defenders of the NSA Have to Stop Making to Remain Credible
26. The NSA Intercepts Millions of Images per Day for Facial Recognition
27. Anonymous No More: Sabu Walks
28. Google Starts Taking Removal Requests for EU ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Law
+ Google Got 12,000 Requests To Be ‘Forgotten’ In The Service’s First Day
+ Google inundated with “right to be forgotten” requests
29. A “right to be forgotten” in Canada?
30. U.S. patent troll bill unsuccessful – what is the situation in Canada?
32. FCC comment site breaks after comedian asks trolls to fight “fast lanes”
33. Is Some Tech Too Addictive?
34. Is Nvidia Playing Fair With Their New Development Tools?
35. Cryptocurrency!
36. Don’t Fear the Network: The Internet Is Changing the Way We Communicate for the Better
37. The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world
38. He Said, He Said: the Comcast-Netflix Edition
39. Netflix Loves Big Data, But Won’t Use It To Make TV Shows
40. In a Reversal, Kickstarter Largely Ditches Rules and Human Moderation Requirements
41. Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood: Clash of the Corporate Cultures
42. Data Vs. Creativity: The Content Marketer’s False Choice
jon
News of the Week; May 28, 2014
+ Virtual Rift Leads to Legal Rift for Oculus and ZeniMax
2. Wolfenstein: The New Order clocks up 100,000 illegal downloads
3. Blizzard suing StarCraft II hackers
4. Nintendo Reveals Plan to ‘Share’ Revenue with YouTube ‘Let’s Play’ Video Makers
5. Timeline: The rise and fall of 38 Studios in Rhode Island
+ Caprio: Ratings agencies hands weren’t clean in 38 Studios deal
6. Former CEO of Atlus parent arrested for fraud
7. An Anti-Bullying Video Game Where Mean Kids Become Demons
8. Apple pulls Weed Firm from App Store
9. Vivendi sells another $850m in Activision Blizzard stock
10. Sony PlayStation Follows Microsoft Into China
+ Sony Forms Joint Ventures in China for PlayStation
11. Sony: PS4 “likely” to exceed profits earned from PS2
12. PCCC Video Compares Net Neutrality Proposal to ‘Laggy Video Games’
13. Why we behave like psychopaths in online games
14. Watch Dogs PR stunt causes evacuation of Australian news office
15. Darpa Turns Oculus Into a Weapon for Cyberwar
16. How One Video Game Became a Million-Dollar Professional Sport
17. Video games are the most fascinating medium ever created, David Cage says
18. Man Robs Bank, Buys Games at Walmart, Gets Caught
19. Meet The Man Who Keeps Making Up Fallout 4 Rumors
20. The domestication of digital games in the lives of older adults
21. “A Multiplayer Game Environment Is Actually a Dream Come True for an Economist”
22. 7 Gamecations for the Ultimate Nerdy Summer
24. Amazon Speaks on Hachette Book Battle: Everyone Negotiates Like We Do (Wink)
25. Why I’m ditching my Amazon account
26. Canada needs a royal commission on spying and privacy of Canadians
27. From Toews to Todd: The Unravelling of the Government’s Lawful Access Sales Strategy
28. ‘Gutted’ NSA reform bill passes the House, but sheds supporters
29. FBI withdraws national security letter following Microsoft challenge
30. China Pulls Cisco Into Dispute on Cyberspying
31. Pentagon Report That Supposedly Shows How Much Harm Snowden Caused… Actually Shows No Such Thing
32. Government Seeks Seven-Month Sentence for LulzSec Leader ‘Sabu’
33. Google, Yahoo and others are getting fed up with government gag orders
34. Google’s Brin Says NSA Surveillance Revelations Were a “Huge Disappointment”
35. Facebook Wants To Listen In On What You’re Doing
36. E.U. Debates Which Nation Will Regulate Web Privacy
37. You Are Not a Digital Native: Privacy in the Age of the Internet
38. Twitter caves to Pakistani “blasphemy” censorship requests
39. Microsoft sues Siberian bank for copyright infringement
40. Legislation to Protect Against ‘Patent Trolls’ Is Shelved
41. An Open Letter on Feminism In Tech
42. Wake me up before you Indiegogo: legal issues with crowdfunding
43. Microsoft’s Skype “Star Trek” Language Translator Takes on Tower of Babel
jon
News of the Week; May 21, 2014
1. Nintendo Wins Patent Lawsuit Against Wall Wireless
2. Philips alleges Nintendo patent infringement
3. Hex card game sued for infringing Magic IP
4. With Twitch Acquisition Talks, Validation of Games as Spectator Sport
5. You Can Try a Demo of Kabam’s New Videogame … On YouTube. What?
6. Microsoft offering refunds on Xbox Live Gold
7. It’s Run and Gun Time with Kim Jong Un in ‘Glorious Leader’
8. Far Cry 4 already playing with fire
9. Army’s new training shooter makes out of shape soldiers look fat
10. The vagina that scared Apple
11. Op-ed: It’s time for Nintendo to move beyond white characters
12. With Virtual Currency Giveaway, EA Tests New Type of iOS Promo
13. The gamification of buying games
14. As It Brings Its Mobile Game to China, Betaworks Reconnects the Dots
15. McDonald’s World Cup Promo Uses Augmented Reality to Turn French Fry Boxes Into Soccer Fields
16. Oculus Rift coming to Chuck E. Cheese’s
17. EVE Online And The Big Game Hunters
18. PS4 outsells Xbox One in April for fourth consecutive month
+ Sony’s still on track despite tough figures
19. Watchdog Group Report Concludes That New Consoles are Power Hogs
20. The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits
21. The Inside Story of Oculus Rift and How Virtual Reality Became Reality
22. A visit to Galloping Ghost, the largest video game arcade in the USA
23. Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas
24. Secrets, lies and Snowden’s email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
25. Irony Alert: US Filing Criminal Charges Against China For Cyberspying
26. Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant
+ In Letter to Obama, Cisco CEO Complains About NSA Allegations
28. (Canadian) Spy program suspended for being too aggressive
29. The “right” to be removed from Google: what the big EU decision means and the reaction so far
+ What we can salvage from ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling
+ Politician and paedophile ask Google to ‘be forgotten’
+ Will Europe’s “Right to be Forgotten” cross the pond to Canada?
30. Google Can’t Forget You, But It Should Make You Hard to Find
31. Apple May Be Liable For Privacy Violations by Third Party Developed Apps
32. The End Of Maximalist Copyright?
33. The Copyright Board of Canada Music Streaming Decision: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
34. How Much Copyright Protection Should Source Code Get? A New Court Ruling Reshapes The Landscape
35. We Need a Legal Framework for Biohacking Our Brains
36. Competition Bureau Recommends New Regulations To Address Wireless Competition Concerns
37. FCC Proves Yet Again That It’s Out to Kill Net Neutrality
38. Rogers explains why it came last in Netflix rankings
39. Shocker: Cable TV prices went up four times the rate of inflation
40. The Judge that Apple Hates
41. Bitcoin Foundation Hit by Resignations Over New Director
42. Forget the 3D Printer: 4D Printing Could Change Everything
43. Internet Addiction: Real or Virtual Reality?
44. Big Brother teams up with TMZ: How celebrity culture is hastening privacy’s digital demise
jon
News of the Week; May 14, 2014
1. Nintendo’s anti-gay cop-out: Why its demented same-sex ban is no game
+ Nintendo Apologizes for Response to Same-Sex Controversy
2. The Sims 4 rated 18+ in Russia for same-sex relationships
3. The Glorious History Of Video Game Panics
4. Research: 26 Percent of Men Use Opposite Gender Avatars in MMOs
5. Always Sometimes Monster’ Maker Urges GLAAD to Honor Games in its Media Awards
6. Capcom promoting female employees in an effort to recognize diversity
7. Report says Chinese authorities are banning bikinis in video games
8. CCP Punishes Eve Online Monument Vandals
9. Federal Court Rejects Facebook, Zynga Privacy Lawsuit Appeals
11. Sega’s gaming business rebounds
12. Tencent banks $1 billion in Q1
13. Sony executives to return bonuses
15. EA confirms 50 games going offline
16. Microsoft: Xbox Live is bigger than DirecTV
17. Microsoft Cuts Xbox One Price to $399 Without Kinect, Will Put Media Apps in Front of Paywall
18. Epic announces crowdsourced dev model for next Unreal Tournament
19. Take-Two CEO open to buying more studios
+ GTA V ships 33 million, boosts Take-Two’s income to a record $361m
20. Australian Government Redirects $10 Million Meant for Australian Interactive Games Fund
21. The Birth of the $60 Billion Videogame Industry
22. Are Video Game Publishers Becoming Irrelevant?
23. From Paper to iPad, Pixel Press Turns Drawings Into Videogames
24. Sony’s Project Morpheus brings virtual reality to mainstream console gaming
25. I’ve Been Playing ‘Snood’ for 14 Years, and It Won’t Stop Insulting Me
26. The Untold Story of How Sega Nearly Won the Console Wars
28. Edward Snowden Sees Himself As A Video Game Hero
29. The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win
30. Government snooping on social media may breach Privacy Act
31. ‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’
32. Protecting Privacy Through Copyright Law? by Pamela Samuelson
33. Your memories are negotiable: How science is making “Eternal Sunshine” a reality
34. Snapchat Settles FTC Charges on False Promises of Disappearing Messages
35. E.U. Court Orders Google to Grant ‘Right to Be Forgotten’
36. The facial recognition databases are coming. Why aren’t the privacy laws?
37. The Move Toward Computing That Reads Your Mind
38. Appointment of New Copyright Board of Canada Chair Offers Chance for Change
39. Oracle wins Android-Java copyright appeal: API code copyrightable, new trial on fair use
+ Link to Oracle v. Google USCA decision
+ Why Oracle’s Copyright Victory Over Google Is Bad News for Everyone
40. Guarding against abuse: Restoring constitutional copyright
41. Netflix Speed Rankings Raise Rogers Internet Traffic Management Questions: What Did It Know & When
42. Complaints About Net Neutrality Flooding the FCC
+ Comcast is the one who should pay for network connections, Cogent claims
+ Vi Hart Explains & Defends Net Neutrality in a New Doodle-Filled Video
+ Web Hosting Service NeoCities Throttles FCC Over ‘Net Neutrality’ Proposal
43. How Big Cable is organizing against net neutrality
44. Netflix comes through with price hike after struggles with Comcast, Verizon
45. Defending the Open Internet
46. Comparative Study Of National Approaches To Internet Intermediary Liability
47. What Happens When You Break Up With Facebook: Nothing
48. Can You Take a Security Interest in Bitcoin?
49. Talking Turkey: Twitter’s Top Lawyer Fights for Free Speech, Revenue
jon
News of the Week; May 7, 2014
1. Zenimax claims ownership of IP created by John Carmack that powers Oculus Rift [Updated]
+ Oculus “disappointed, but not surprised” by Zenimax claims
+ Oculus, ZeniMax trade accusations in VR technology ownership dispute
2. Valve refunding Earth: Year 2066 customers
3. Wolfenstein: The New Order to be Censored in Germany and Austria
4. Nintendo says no to same-sex relationships in new sim game
5. Nintendo Sinks to Loss on Lagging Wii U Sales
6. Level 3 claims six ISPs dropping packets every day over money disputes
7. After 32 Years, Small Massachusetts Town Votes to Lift Arcade Games Ban
8. Pro League of Legends Player Suffers Collapsed Lung, Continues to Play Anyways
9. Connecticut Lawmaker Calls for Warning Labels, Sin Tax on Video Games (Again)
10. Australia Considers Automating Classification Process for Games, Film and TV
11. Rhode Island Lawmaker Received Death Threat for Investigating 38 Studios Loan Deal
12. Can you tell a person’s gender by their video-game avatar?
14. Mobile Game Revenue in China Expected to Rival U.S. in 2014
15. Lionsgate launching games division
16. Activision backs Destiny with $500m launch investment
17. Glu Mobile Acquires PlayFirst
18. Neversoft folded into Infinity Ward
19. Turtle Rock Community Manager Weighs In On Donald Sterling Situation, Gets Fired
20. EA nearing deal to stream games via Comcast – report
21. The Man Who Disposed of 750,000 Atari Games
22. Computer Technology Is Reviving the Board Game
23. What Do You Owe Your Backers on Kickstarter?
24. Canadian Telcos Asked to Disclose Subscriber Data Every 27 Seconds
+ Why Have Canada’s Telcos Failed to Notify Subscribers About Disclosing Their Information?
+ Responding to the Crisis in Canadian Telecommunications
25. Facial recognition: is the technology taking away your identity?
26. Tech Companies Increasingly Telling Users When Law Enforcement Comes Asking For Data
27. Russia Quietly Tightens Reins on Web With ‘Bloggers Law’
28. Yahoo is the latest company ignoring Web users’ requests for privacy
29. App changes its privacy policy ten days after Facebook acquisition
30. 3 Ways Big Data Is Going To Be Used Against You In The Future
31. Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values (Executive Office of the President)
32. Competition Bureau releases draft updated Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines
33. What Exactly Are You Implying?’: The Elusive Nature of the Implied Copyright License
+ Google a Winner in Apple-Samsung Verdict
+ There’s No Dancing in Streets of Cupertino After Latest Apple-Samsung Verdict
36. WeRobot 2014 Conference Videos
jon
News of the Week; April 30, 2014
1. Stanford Has a Videogame Controller That Knows if You’re Bored
2. New ESA Report Offers Stats Galore on American Gaming Trends
3. PC market has surpassed console – DFC
4. Women increasing representation among US gamers – ESA
5. Virtual rape and slavery scandal rocks Minecraft community
6. Playing with privilege: the invisible benefits of gaming while male
7. How Dota 2 manipulates your behavior
8. Yes, There are Old Atari Game Cartridges Buried in the Desert
9. Digging up meaning from the rubble of an excavated Atari landfill
10. People donated $100,571 to pay for a game about being a bear
11. Zynga Founder Leaves Daily Role at Struggling Game Maker
12. So you want to publish a game in China…
13. This guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral
14. Video Games That Embrace Irony and Death
15. Sharing joysticks: how video games are opening up to LGBT themes
16. Danish government releases geographic data by way of 1:1 Minecraft map
17. Growth grinds to a halt for Angry Birds’ maker
18. Whatever happened to the arcade-style sports video game?
19. Nintendo Is Sort of Warming Up to This “Internet” Thing
20. Government Buries Massive Trademark Overhaul in Budget Implementation Bill
21. Trademark change bad for business
23. Appeals court deals Apple’s current case against Samsung a massive blow: key patent devalued
24. Two Rulings May Curb Lawsuits Over Patents
25. (Canadian) Government makes over a million requests a year for data from telecoms
26. Declassified FISC Order Shows Verizon Lost Challenge to NSA’s Mass Surveillance Program
27. Communications Privacy for and by Whom?
28. F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad
29. Putin’s Fear of the Internet
30. Justices appear open to limits on cellphone searches
31. Football team settles suit over text messages to fans for $3 million
32. FCC to Release Draft Net Neutrality Rules in May
33. Net Neutrality: A Guide to (and History of) a Contested Idea
34. Does Anyone Like the FCC’s Proposed Net Neutrality Rules?
35. U.S. Plan for Internet Fast Lanes Contrasts With European Rules
36. Different Regulations, Different Regulators: Behind Canada’s Net Neutrality Advantage
37. BitTorrent: Netflix should defeat ISPs by switching to peer-to-peer
+ Here Is the RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Firing Statement
jon
News of the Week; April 23, 2014
1. US v. SILVIUS, Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit 2014; mod chips conviction
2. King Settles Trademark Disputes With ‘CandySwipe’ and ‘The Banner Saga’ Makers
3. King Stock Bumped Up by Tencent Partnership
4. Candy Crush Gets Nationwide TV Ads in Japan, and They’re Super Weird
5. PS4 outsold Xbox One in March while Titanfall led software sales
6. It’s Official: Consoles Can Be Sold at Chinese Retail
7. China Details Copious Restrictions On Video Game Content
8. Sony sells all Square Enix stock
9. Perfect World to buy $100 million in Shanda shares
10. NCSoft Invests $4.8 Million in Lezhin Entertainment
11. For Zynga, a modest rebound would count as a win
12. Only 2.2% of free-to-play users ever pay – Report
13. My mother made me a gamer, and gave me the skills to deal with her death
14. How Minecraft is helping the United Nations improve the world
15. The Lawless Frontier of Deep Space: Code as Law in EVE Online
16. The Next Big Thing In Video Games: ‘Ethical’ Gaming
17. Tapping Into the Emotional Side of Video Games: Developing Hope, Healing and Love
18. The disappearing inventor (Blog entry by Ken Perlin on the real story of the origins of Oculus and the role of Mark Bolas of USC)
20. Telus must reimburse $2.6M in texting fees, court rules
21. Netflix Asks Appellate Court to Reconsider ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Ruling
22. For world’s biggest troll, first patent case ends up in tatters
23. Argument preview: Free TV, at a bargain price?
+ Why the Aereo Supreme Court case over TV’s future is too tough to call
+ Aereo analysis: Cloud computing at a crossroads
+ Here’s What the Supreme Court Wants to Know About Aereo, in the Justices’ Own Words
24. Copyright is Out of Control
25. Understanding the Crazy Math Apple and Samsung Use to Calculate Patent Damages
26. Record industry finds a new way to squeeze Pandora, but it won’t help musicians
27. When ‘Liking’ a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue
+ After Facebook Flap, General Mills Backs Down From Forced Arbitration Policy
28. The Effect of Social Media in Young Girls
29. Facebook Wants You Talking About the World Cup — So Advertisers Can Find You
30. Amazon Sales Take a Hit in States With Online Tax
31. Protests Continue Against Dropbox After Appointment of Condoleezza Rice to Board
32. Preston-Warner Threatens Legal Action in Github Scandal Fallout
+ Julie Ann Horvath on GitHub Investigation: “How Do You Sleep at Night?”
33. Government of Canada proposes important changes to PIPEDA
34. Key differences between US and Canadian anti-spam laws
35. Big Data is the new Artificial Intelligence
36. Right of Publicity? First, Let Me Take a Selfie
37. Twitter’s Turkey Headache That Won’t End
38. China’s New Internet Crackdown: Not About Porn
39. Google Patents Contact Lenses That Contain Microcameras
41. Hollywood Sci-Fi Films Are Ripping Off Anime
42. Theories of intellectual property: Is it worth the effort?
43. Ignore age—define generations by the tech they use
45. Ethereum
+ Ethereum: Freenet or Skynet ?
46. How the Internet Is Taking Away America’s Religion
jon