GAMES
- Pokémon Go is “new level of invasion,” says stony-faced Oliver Stone – Snowden director: “This data-mining game is what they call totalitarianism.”
- Nintendo posts biggest Q1 loss in five years: Last year’s profit turns to $232 million loss in the face of collapsing Wii U sales and the absence of new revenue streams
- Nintendo suffers huge first-quarter loss as Wii U and 3DS sales tumble
- Pokémon Go: Nintendo stock tanks after it issues profit warning: Nintendo admits to limited impact from app’s success—sees biggest shares drop since 1990.
- Nintendo issues reminder it didn’t make Pokémon Go, stock slumps 18%: $6.7 billion wiped from Nintendo’s market cap in its biggest one-day drop since 1990
- Nintendo’s stock drops as investors learn it didn’t createPokemon Go
- Nintendo stays the course despite flagging sales and profits
- Despite radical success, Pokemon Go won’t affect Nintendo’s bottom line
- Pokemon Go is popular but polarizing, according to Nielsen data
- The Endgame Grind Of ‘Pokémon GO’ Is Spirit-Crushing
- London restaurant drops Pokémon Go lures, revenues go up 26%: Covent Garden eatery has a dedicated employee who spends £100 per day on lures.
- Pair that brought guns to Pokémon tournament gets two years in jail: Sentencing comes after players showed off weapons in threatening online posts.
- Pokémon’s Big Carbon Footprint Illustrates Energy Reality
- How Pokémon Go changes the geography of cities
- The tireless, automated bots that want to play Pokémon Go for you: GPS-spoofing programs open up a big cheating problem for developer Niantic.
- Wherein An Associate Curses Out A Partner Over Pokémon
- Augmenting Reality: A Pokémon Go Business and Legal Primer
- Expanded Video Game Liability Post-Pokémon Go?
- The intriguing legal ramifications of Pokémon GO
- Pokémon Go — another reminder about the duty of competence for lawyers
- Is Pokémon Go success going to come to a Weezing halt?: Garry Barter of PlayerXP analyses the customer feedback for Niantic’s AR giant
- Pokémon Go developer’s first game, Ingress, surges in Japan
- How The 23 Named Skin Gambling Sites Have Reacted To Valve’s Cease And Desist Letter
- Heroes of the Storm player arrested for death threats against Blizzard
- Man arrested for threats against Blizzard: California man faces up to five years in jail after repeatedly suggesting he might “pay a visit” with an AK-47
- The patented “superformula” that could cause a legal headache for No Man’s Sky: Drama comes as game has been finalized, is set to launch on August 9.
- Over 775K emails stolen in Warframe hack
- Humble Bundle clarifies fraud policies: “Let us take care of this for you using our infrastructure” it tells devs
- Humble Bundle outlines fraud prevention strategy following G2A fiasco
- Report: China pushes past US to lead the world in App Store game revenue
- Alibaba invests $150 million in esports
- Renegades, Riot and the danger of absolute power
- ESL: “The onus is on us to set the bar” – Spike Laurie talks regulation, responsibility and reaching the mainstream
- Dota 2’s The International prize pool is the richest in eSports — again
- Gaming revenues down 9% at Microsoft as hardware sales slow
- Xbox One drops to $249, now half of its launch-day price
- Study: Sexualized female characters in games down over last decade
- How Are Games Companies Dealing With Online Abuse?
- No Consoles For Old Men: Ageism In The Game Industry
- Games For Grandparents: How the game industry is leaving today’s (and tomorrow’s) seniors behind.
- Top 10 Worst Star Wars Games Ever Made: These aren’t the games you’re looking for.
- Political snarls drive prominent game educators out of Wisconsin
DIGITAL
- Photographer sues Getty Images for selling photos she donated to public: Firm demanded $120 from Carol Highsmith for alleged copyright violation of her own photo.
- Photographer Suing Getty Images for $1 Billion
- Highsmith v. Getty Images, Complaint USDC Southern District of New York, July 25, 2016
- EFF Lawsuit Takes on DMCA Section 1201: Research and Technology Restrictions Violate the First Amendment
- EFF sues US government, saying copyright rules on DRM are unconstitutional: DMCA’s “anti-circumvention” rule has rankled hackers and scholars for a long time.
- America’s broken digital copyright law is about to be challenged in court: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the US government over ‘unconstitutional’ use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- EFF Lawsuit Challenges DMCA’s Digital Locks Provision As First Amendment Violation
- China Clamps Down on Online News Reporting
- China To Ban Ad Blockers As Part Of New Regulations For Online Advertising
- Just As We Warned: A Chinese Tech Giant Goes On The Patent Attack — In East Texas
- Russian Copyright Law Allows Entire News Site To Be Shut Down Over A Single Copied Article
- It looks like Russia hired internet trolls to pose as pro-Trump Americans
- Unified Patents files legal challenges against top three patent trolls of 2016: Patent trolls sent hundreds of demand letters over package tracking and DRM.
- Qualcomm settles class-action gender bias suit for $19.5 million: Chip-maker will now address imbalance within its ranks, implementing reforms to improve pay and opportunities for women
- Search Engine Snippets Protected By Section 230–O’Kroley v. Fastcase (Eric Goldman)
- Appeals Court Rejects Silly Case Against Google Over Search Results Summary
- Paramount ends geoblocking tactics after EU antitrust breach warning: Movie studio commits to boldly allow access where no European had access before.
- Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics
- Dear US Olympic Committee: Tweeting About The Olympics Is Never Trademark Infringement
- Batten down the hatches—Navy accused of pirating 585k copies of VR software: Bitmanagement Software says Navy “did not license” its virtual reality product.
- Message Board Operator May Be Liable For Moderator’s Content–Enigma v. Bleeping
- Isohunt Founder Settles With Music Industry For $66 Million
- IsoHunt Settles The Last Of Its Lawsuits, Laughably Agrees To ‘Pay’ Recording Industry $66 Million
- Will The FTC Investigate People & Companies Paid By Facebook To Use Facebook Live?
- Twitter Continues Push Into Live Sports Streaming With Announcement Of MLB And NHL Partnership
- Breaking Down Twitter’s Flurry Of Streaming Rights Deals
- The Future Of Live Streaming Sports Lies With Social Media Networks
- It’s Official: Verizon Buying Yahoo for $4.83B in Cash
- Official: Yahoo snapped up by Verizon in $4.8 billion deal – ’90s Internet pinups Yahoo and AOL together at last.
- Verizon Buys Yahoo In $4.8 Billion Attempt To Bore The Internet To Death
- Does The Snapchat Generation Even Know What Yahoo Is?
- Verizon To Unite AOL & Yahoo Against Facebook, YouTube
- How Yahoo Lost Its Way: The seminal early tech giant never quite found a way to successfully pivot.
- What Hot ’90s Tech Company Should Verizon Buy Next?: Yahoo today, maybe Neopets tomorrow
- Why Netflix Is Stumbling Overseas
- Facebook CEO: ‘In Five to Ten Years AR Will Be Where VR is Today’
- Massachusetts issues guidelines for using third-party robo-advisers
- North Carolina Clarifies Digital Currency Amidst Growing Interest in Blockchain Technology
- Bitcoin ‘not real money’ says Miami judge in closely watched ruling – Defendant acquitted of illegally transmitting $1,500 worth of cryptocurrency – Judge: ‘Bitcoin has a long way to go before it is the equivalent of money’
- Florida judge: Bitcoins aren’t currency, so state money laws don’t apply
- In Rejecting Bitcoin as Money, Florida Court Sets Likely Precedent
- Leslie Jones And Twitter’s Troll Economics
- Twitter’s Wholesale Rejection of Donald Trump’s Speech Was Oddly Comforting
- Hillary 2016 app sees gamification of political activism for iPhone-owning Democrats
- The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikely Supporter
- MIT Media Lab Launched Disobedience Award, Funded By Reid Hoffman
- Canada’s National Digitization Plan Leaves Virtual Shelves Empty (Michael Geist)
- Why Canada should adopt a national IP strategy
- The rise in cyber attacks shows we need to change the way we think about crime
CREATIVITY
- Turkey Cracks Down on Journalists, Its Next Target After Crushing Coup
- Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All: “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it.
- Donald Trump Threatens ‘Art Of The Deal’ Ghostwriter, Claiming His ‘Disloyalty’ Somehow Amounts To Defamation
- Demand Letter and Response re Author of Trump’s “Art of the Deal”
- Why Donald Trump Should Have Gotten Song Permission from The Rolling Stones (But Not Queen)
- But Wait: Copyright Law Is So Screwed Up, Perhaps The Rolling Stones Are Right That Donald Trump Needed Their Permission
- Whose Copyright Office? (Annemarie Bridy)
- Led Zeppelin Copyright Trial, Round 2: Band’s Accuser Files for Appeal
- The Hamster Case Continues as District Court Denies Hasbro’s Motion to Dismiss
- Harris Faulkner Says It Doesn’t Matter that Hamster Toy Doesn’t Look Like Her
- Daily Mail Must Face Defamation Suit After Using Photo of Porn Star in HIV Story: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals concludes that reasonable readers could have assumed that Danni Ashe had tested positive.
- How to Libel a Porn Star (Noah Feldman)
- Gawker Founder Nick Denton Wins Temporary Reprieve From Hulk Hogan Judgment
- How the Real Edward Snowden Helped Write the Ending to Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’
- The weirdest ads made by your favourite filmmakers: Everybody needs to pay the bills – for directors that might mean surrendering creative control to a brand and making films you might not normally make
- Technology changes how authors write, but the big impact isn’t on their style
COMMUNICATIONS & BROADCASTING
- Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations, Roger Ailes Resigns As Chairman And CEO Of Fox News
- What does Fox News do after Roger Ailes?
- RNC 2016 Ratings Have Fox News Flat, Big Jumps for CNN, MSNBC
- A Stony Silence at Fox News After Ailes’s Departure
- Why Did It Take Roger Ailes So Long to Fall?: The real surprise may be that some accusers were willing to step forward despite the likely consequences.
- Roger Ailes’s Fox News Ending Was The Story He Couldn’t Control
- Amazon, Cable Industry Molest The Definition Of Copyright In Ongoing Scuff Up Over Cable Box Reform
- Lawsuit Claims Frontier Misused Millions In Federal Broadband Stimulus Funds
- Verizon to disconnect unlimited data customers who use over 100GB/month
- Netflix’s cable box deal with Comcast won’t exempt it from data caps: Netflix video will stream on Comcast cable boxes—but without special treatment.
- Are You Compliant with Canada’s Anti-Spam Law? Expect the Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuits to Start Next Year
- AT&T to lead robocall “strike force”—after claiming it can’t block them: Industry might finally take stronger action against robocalls after FCC demands.
- NBC Turns to Digital Influencers to Draw TV-Averse Millennials to Olympics Coverage
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Why this internet celebrity is hacking his fans’ social media accounts
- Pop star tells fans to send their Twitter passwords, but it might be illegal: #HackedByJohnson entices young fans so he can post cute messages in their name.
- All Signs Point to Russia Being Behind the DNC Hack
- Critics blast Trump calls for Russia to locate missing Hillary Clinton e-mails
- New evidence suggests DNC hackers penetrated deeper than previously thought: Consultant’s Yahoo Mail suspected of being targeted by state-sponsored hackers.
- Connecting the dots: How Russia benefits from the DNC email leak
- Wikileaks Leak Of Turkish Emails Reveals Private Details; Raises Ethical Questions; Or Not…
- Secret algorithms that predict future criminals get a thumbs up from Wisconsin Supreme Court
- In Secret Battle, Surveillance Court Reined in FBI Use of Information Obtained From Phone Calls
- Judge Orders Yahoo to Explain How It Recovered ‘Deleted’ Emails in Drugs Case
- Protecting the Fourth Amendment in the Information Age: A Response to Robert Litt (Cindy Cohn)
- Nonagenarian model citizen wants secret surveillance data on him deleted: Classed as a “domestic extremist,” the RAF veteran is suing UK police at the ECHR.
- A Side-By-Side Comparison of “Privacy Shield” and the Controller-Processor Model Clauses: The Easiest Way to Understand What Privacy Shield is and What You Need to Do to Use it
- Microsoft ordered to stop tracking Windows 10 user behaviour—or face piddling fine: France’s data watchdog also eyes Microsoft’s clasp of discredited Safe Harbour scheme.
- Police asked this 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man’s fingers to unlock his phone
- Apple’s Touch ID blocks feds—armed with warrant—from unlocking iPhone: Supreme Court has not ruled about compelled unlocking of fingerprint-locked devices.
- Snowden Designs a Device to Warn if Your iPhone’s Radios Are Snitching
- Hacker who published LA Times login credentials ordered to prison: Matthew Keys must begin serving two-year sentence for putting login info online.
- The Internet Of Things Is a Security And Privacy Dumpster Fire And The Check Is About To Come Due
- Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Mark Boal Sues U.S. Government Over Bowe Bergdahl Interviews: Boal says he shouldn’t be held in contempt in a military court for refusing to comply with a subpoena.
- FTC: Most Americans Don’t Know How Much Companies Track And Sell Their Data – As Americans face ubiquitous data collection with too little transparency or control, Edith Ramirez, the head of the Federal Trade Commission, wants a comprehensive privacy law.
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