By Jon Festinger on March 16, 2015
Below you will find a link to the audio of a terrific panel I was privileged to be on at the UBC Press Start conference on “Working with Japanese Game Companies: Best Practices”. The panel included Atsuo Nakayama (Bandai Namco), Joe Nickolls (Capcom Vancouver), Sakae Osumi (Capcom USA), myself and Patrick Pennefather (Centre for Digital Media) as moderator.
https://pressstartubc.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/best-practices.mp3
Photo credit to Jia Lu, a student at the Centre for Digital Media.
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By Jon Festinger on March 16, 2015
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In the category of making me look and sound much too good comes this interview with the new website BasedGamer which originates here in Vancouver. You will find the short version (4:12) on top and the long version (10:37) below that.
Also, to be clear, the music bed underneath the interview does not in any way indicate that I will be teaching yoga classes at any time in the future.
BasedGamer itself can be found at http://www.basedgamer.com/
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By Jon Festinger on March 12, 2015
GAMES
1. ‘Turkey Not Banning Minecraft,’ Says Diplomat
+ Mojang Responds To Turkish Government’s Plan To Ban ‘Minecraft’
+ Turkish Ministry Recommends Banning Super-Violent Minecraft
2. Report: Mississippi deputy fired over threatening Xbox Live players: Offers racist slurs, home address, badge number during Call of Duty session.
3. GDC Awards Show Hosts Deliver Messages About Internet Hate
4. Massachusetts congresswoman urges FBI to take Gamergate seriously
5. Brianna Wu vs. the Troll Army: She set out to transform the video gaming industry by creating a hit game aimed at female players. Then came Gamergate. And the harassment. And the death threats.
6. The games industry is wrong about kids, gaming and gender
7. The People Who Make Brutal Video Game Porn
8. Video game bans: the debate about guns, GTA, and real-life violence
9. Australian Classification Board Turns To IARC To Streamline Ratings Process
10. Finally, African Fantasy Is Getting Its Own Gorgeous RPG
11. Intel Promises To Help Foster More Diversity in The Video Games Industry
12. Riot Games rated one of America’s top 15 places to work
13. CFP: Games for the Elderly, and the Representation of Aging in Video Games
14. Petition Call on Activision and Infinity Ward To Revamp ‘Modern Warfare 2’ for PS4, Xbox One
15. How Switzerland could be the model for better game communities
16. What is a gamer?
17. Comcast Blocks HBO Go on PlayStation Devices
18. PlayStation Network attacked “every day” – Yoshida
19. Swatting: It’s All Fun And Games Until Someone Gets Murdered
20. Majesco Hands Off Retail Publishing As Annual Shareholder Meeting Looms
21. Curt Schilling Speaks Out About the Failure of 38 Studios
22. A word on dealing with publishers: Don’t – Skulls of the Shogun dev Borut Pfeifer cautions indies against signing deals for marketing help, says many exist to leech value
23. The Rise Of Slow Gaming, Our Cultural Antidote To Angry Birds
24. Blizzard offers college tuition in new eSports tournament
25. Minecraft’s Markus Persson Tells All On His Sale To Microsoft, His $70 Million Home
26. VR sickness cannot be solved by hardware improvements alone: Walt Disney Imagineering’s Bei Yang points to game design as an ever present risk of sickness in virtual reality
27. Why video game engines may power the future of film and architecture: The original developer of Gears of War has an ambitious plan for the future of everything
28. History of Video Games (1950-1980)
29. The Merging of Artist and Audience: How Games will Redefine Fame
30. On killing virtual dogs
DIGITAL
31. Free to Be You and Me? Copyright and Constraint (Rebecca Tushnet)
32. 13-24 Year Olds Watching More YouTube Than TV – To The Surprise of No-one
33. U.S. NSA sued by Wikimedia, rights groups over mass surveillance
34. New smoking gun further ties NSA to omnipotent “Equation Group” hackers: What are the chances unrelated state-sponsored projects were both named “BACKSNARF”?
35. Je suis Charlie sentiment fades amid calls to tame free speech
36. Everyone Wants You To Have Security, But Not From Them (Bruce Schneier)
37. Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft: I’m putting more trust in communities than corporations (Dan Gillmor)
38. Two weeks on, Superfish debacle still causing pain for some Lenovo customers: Assurances on the demise of the dangerous adware are (somewhat) exaggerated.
39. Attack Attribution and Cyber Conflict
40. Misuse of Canada’s Copyright Notice System Continues: U.S. Firm Sending Thousands of Notices With Settlement Demands (Michael Geist)
+ More Copyright Trolls Rushing In To Take Advantage Of Canadian Copyright Notice System Loopholes
41. Here’s why patents are innovation’s worst enemy MPAA Abusing DMCA Takedowns To Attempt A Poor Man’s SOPA
42. Federal Court finds meta tags do not infringe trademarks or copyright
43. Trial Court Doesn’t Unmask Parodist Twitterers
44. CRTC Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer issues $1.1 million penalty to Compu-Finder for spamming Canadians
45. How Reddit Became a Worse Black Hole of Violent Racism than Stormfront
46. This Is What It’s Like To Go To Prison For Trolling: In January 2014, two people were found guilty of sending death and rape threats to the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez in the most high-profile online abuse case Britain has yet seen.
47. WordPress Wins Case Against DMCA Abuser… Who Ignored The Proceedings
48. Will the FTC ever drop the hammer on paid Wikipedia edits?
49. Following the Digital Breadcrumbs: How to distinguish online nutcases from honest-to-God villains.
50. Spanish Court Limits Scope Of EU’s Right To Be Forgotten
51. Facebook post written in Florida lands US man in United Arab Emirates jail: Mechanic accused of slandering his employer, which is illegal in the Emirates.
52. Sofia Vergara Successfully Shuts Down “Fan Site” Via UDRP Proceeding
53. Europe reverses course on net neutrality legislation: EU member states have voted in favor of allowing the prioritization of “specialized” services.
54. MySpace – what went wrong: ‘The site was a massive spaghetti-ball mess’: Former VP of online marketing Sean Percival on corporate interference, Punch The Monkey, and a failed attempt to buy Spotify
55. Top 10 emerging technologies of 2015
56. Cognitive Technology: The rise of “bionic brains”
57. Licensing Your 3D Printed Stuff: Why 3D Printed Objects Challenge Our Copyright Beliefs
58. Why No One’s Talking About ‘Cord-Forevers’
59. Why It’s Almost Impossible To Teach a Robot To Do Your Laundry
CREATIVITY
60. The End of Creativity: The word “creativity” was made up less than a hundred years ago. It is time to stop using it.
61. Raising the Broadcast White Flag: What Lies Behind Bell’s Radical Plan to Raise TV Fees, Block Content, Violate Net Neutrality & Fight Netflix
62. Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke to pay $7.4m to Marvin Gaye’s family over Blurred Lines: Jury decides Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke copied 1977 hit Got to Give It Up in lawsuit filed by Gaye’s children
+ The Blurred Lines Decision
+ Jury Says Robin Thicke And Pharrell Infringed… Even If They Didn’t Mean To: Told To Pay $7.3 Million
+ How the ‘Blurred Lines’ case could have chilling effect on creativity
63. What The Law Really Says About Music Plagiarism: How you think about music ≠ how the courts think about music.
64. What We Talk About When We Talk About Crediting Photographers
65. Bryn Geffert On Securing Rights
66. India Threatens BBC Over Decision To Air Rape Documentary In U.K.
+ Indian Government Attempts To Censor BBC Gang Rape Documentary; Succeeds Only In Drawing More Attention To It
67. We can’t rely on corporations like Fox to care about ethics in journalism
68. Jury Decides Village People ‘Y.M.C.A.’ Songwriter Has 50 Percent Song Share
69. 2 Hockey Players And Elisha Cuthbert Want Cash From A TV Station For Airing A Joke Tweet
70. Liability may lurk in the vitriol of reader comments
71. Media mergers and the Competition Bureau: is the medium the market?
72. Rise Of The Robot Sportswriter: Now that the AP has announced that it will outsource sports stories to artificial intelligence, we can expect lots of freezing #ColdTakes!
73. What It’s Like Publishing My Entire Book on Medium
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By Jon Festinger on March 1, 2015
GAMES
1. “Suspicious male in possession of flight simulator game” lawsuit moves ahead: Wiley Gill drew cops’ attention as Muslim convert; feds can’t dismiss his case.
2. Super Mario 64 and ‘mod’ culture: meet the man behind the high-def makeover: The revered video game is being re-imagined by Aryok Piñera, who started the project alone but now leads a motley crew dozens strong. The legality of such ‘mods’ is murky, but that won’t affect its practitioners’ passion for perfecting
3. People Are Already Making Bizarre Mods For Dragon Ball Xenoverse
4. What A Strong Modding Community Can Do: How Doom Has Been Yanked Into The Selfie Age
5. Makers Of Flow Free® Mobile Game Sue Cloner For Copyright And Trademark Infringement
6. ESA Downplays Its Level of Cooperation With The Administration On Cybersecurity Efforts
7. Death threats prompt PAX East exit for Brianna Wu’s Giant Spacekat
8. SCEE president: Gamergate “absolutely horrible”
9. Video Games’ Blackness Problem
10. The Order: 1886 Dev Says “Internet Is The New Playground For Bullies”
11. Troll deletes 11-year-old’s Destiny characters: “Henry has learned his lesson the hard way.”
+ Man Accused Of Deleting 11-Year-Old’s Destiny Data Also A Victim
12. Canadian Games Industry Wants Improvements To Temporary Foreign Worker Guidelines
13. Fake ‘Darkest Dungeon’ Game Pulled From Windows Game Store
14. Tim Schaefer Defends Peter Molyneux
15. PS4 to outsell Xbox One by 40% through 2018 – Report
16. King reigns as Zynga slumps – but why?
17. You got TV in my video game: Telltale, Lionsgate partner for episodic hybrid
18. Sega Networks purchases Demiurge Studios
19. Is Sega the next Atari?: Former Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske bemoans 20 years of wrong decisions from the Sonic maker, weighs in on whether Nintendo should go mobile
20. Diablo gets microtransactions as Blizzard experiments
21. Nintendo has started making bad free-to-play games like everybody else: Pokemon Shuffle brings the worst of mobile gaming to your 3DS
22. How Monopoly Helped Win World War II
23. How Madden Ratings Are Made: The Secretprocess That Turnsnfl Players Into Digital Gods
24. AI masters 49 Atari 2600 games without instructions: Brain-like artificial intelligence almost as good as professional games tester.
DIGITAL
25. You Had One Job, Lenovo: And it didn’t involve sneaking malicious adware onto your customers’ computers.
+ Superfish: A History Of Malware Complaints And International Surveillance
+ Thought Komodia/Superfish Bug Was Really, Really Bad? It’s Much, Much Worse!
+ EFF unearths evidence of possible Superfish-style attacks in the wild: Crypto-busting apps may have been exploited against visitors of Google and dozens more.
26. Yahoo exec goes mano a mano with NSA director over crypto backdoors
27. The Great Sim Heist: How Spies Stole The Keys To The Encryption Castle
+ NSA’s Stealing Keys To Mobile Phone Encryption Shows Why Mandatory Backdoors To Encryption Is A Horrible Idea
28. Google: Proposed government-sanctioned hacking is a threat to us all – “The implications of this expansion of warrant power are significant.”
29. “Total Information Awareness”: The Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Bill C-51 (Michael Geist)
30. Humiliating Admission By UK Government That Yet More Of Its Surveillance Was Unlawful
31. Canadian Spies Collect Domestic Emails In Secret Security Sweep
32. Is Retweeting ISIS ‘Material Support Of Terrorism’?
33. World Wide Web Foundation: It’s Time The Internet Became a Basic Human Right
34. UK’s House of Lords Calls For Reclassification Of Internet Access As A ‘Public Utility’
35. We must bulldoze what’s left of the nerdy white men’s Internet
36. What’s Really at Stake in Ellen Pao’s Kleiner Perkins Lawsuit
37. Women are leaving the tech industry in droves
38. The big money behind Iran’s Internet censorship
39. Governance of Online Intermediaries: Observations from a Series of National Case Studies (Urs Gasser & Wolfgang Schulz)
40. Nominee For Attorney General Tap Dances Around Senator Franken’s Question About Aaron Swartz
41. Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada releases research report on privacy and cybersecurity (Timothy Denton)
42. Facebook’s Updated Privacy Policy Breaches EU Law, Belgian Study Claims; Other Countries Investigating
43. Be Careful What You Wish For: Bell Launches Legal Challenge Against CRTC Net Neutrality Decision (Michael Geist)
44. Something Is Going Right: Net Neutrality and the FCC (Lawrence Lessig)
45. Despite What The FCC Says, Some Carriers Still Make It Hard To Unlock Your Phone
46. The “Browsewrap”/”Clickwrap” Distinction Is Falling Apart
47. Nvidia hit with class-action lawsuit over graphics card RAM issues: Slow RAM partition in the GTX 970 leads to false advertising claim.
48. Ontario Securities Commission Updates Rules on Equity Crowdfunding, Startup Capital
49. Virtual currency ATM providers and trading platforms must now be authorised in Quebec
50. Why one photographer decided to fight a patent on online contests: EFF’s newest client: “How can you have a patent on a contest? It’s not logical.”
51. Reddit bans nude images posted without consent
52. Study shows patent licenses don’t lead to tech transfer
53. Apple ordered to pay $533-million for patent infringement
54. Machinima gets another $24 million in funding from Warner Bros.
55. The Gig Economy Won’t Last Because It’s Being Sued To Death: If Uber, Lyft, and others don’t stop relying on contract workers, business could crumble. Is it time for a new definition of employee?
56. 10 Fair Use Misconceptions
57. A Decade Later, YouTube Remains a Mystery, Especially to Itself: It’s way too complicated to explain this marvelous history quickly, but let’s try anyway
58. How a 13-year-old’s one-line blog post became a worldwide meme
59. Look Ma, No Hands: Drones You Can Pilot With Your Mind
CREATIVITY
60. Why Is Fair Use Good For Authors? (Pamela Samuelson)
61. Copyright Mixtape: How The “Blurred Lines” Lawsuit Could Change Music Forever
62. German court limits performances of Brecht play: Berthold Brecht’s heirs and notorious theater director Frank Castorf have reached an agreement over a controversial production of Bertolt Brecht’s “Baal.” The production will only be shown two more times.
63. Oscars: A Guide to Best Picture Intellectual Property Litigation
64. Judge tosses ‘Frozen’ lawsuit filed by N.J. author who accused Disney of ripoff
65. How the Photocopier Changed the Way We Worked—and Played: Decades before 3-D printers brought manufacturing closer to home, copiers transformed offices, politics and art
66. Martin Mills: New Billboard Chart Risks Dumbing Down Music
67. The Dangers Of Digital: Brian Eno On Technology And Modern Music
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By Jon Festinger on March 1, 2015
The Press Start conference was an unqualified success. Congratulations to Christina Laffin and Shige Matsui of the Faculty of Law for doing such an outstanding job making it a reality. Video and slides from my presentation on February 27, 2015 can be found below. In it I speculate that differences between “western” and “eastern” views of modding bifurcate along lines of property (western) and creative integrity (eastern). Video should follow soon.
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By Jon Festinger on February 21, 2015
This coming Friday and Saturday, February 27 & 28, 2015, scholars, players, and designers will come together in a wide variety of panels to discuss Japanese video-games and gaming culture. The conference is completely free and open to the public with a simple RSVP.
I will be presenting on “Legal, Normative & Cultural Perspectives on Mods and Modding of Japanese Video Games” as part of a panel on “Economics and Law in the Gaming Industry” at 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM at the UBC Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall.
The website for the conference can be found at https://pressstartubc.wordpress.com/
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By Jon Festinger on February 21, 2015
Below and above are links to a very good article in the Guardian about modder Aryok Pinera who loves all things Nintendo so much that he is remaking Super Mario 64 in HD. The article also contains a few quotes from me. As a bonus for those of you who know my passion for Grand Prix legends it seems entirely likely that the references in the article to that game stem from my incessant yammering to the reporter about my love of that game for both what the developer did and what the mod community did thereafter. The article can be found here:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/super-mario-64-high-definition-mod
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By Jon Festinger on February 18, 2015
GAMES
1. Apple removing guns in iOS App Store promo screenshots: You can have guns in your game, but just don’t show them off, OK?
+ App Store devs report crackdown on images of guns and violence
+ Developers Say Apple Is Rejecting Games For Having Images Of Guns
2. Report: Valve Censoring Messages About Torrent Site in Steam Chat
3. ESA Downplays Its Level of Cooperation With The Administration On Cybersecurity Efforts
4. Zenimax Sends Cease & Desist Letter to ‘Fortress Fallout’ Makers
5. Law & Order SVU takes on GamerGate, everyone loses: Swatting, doxing, social justice warriors, and Ice-T whining about “campers.”
6. Mortal Kombat X Female Characters Will Be More Realistically Proportioned
7. Borders between devs, players blurring – Raymond
8. EA must lead on digital games transparency
9. Molyneux on Godus: “I made some horrendous mistakes”
+ Could Godus’ failure fuel a crowdfunding backlash?
+ On Kickstarter, everyone is Peter Molyneux: The structure of crowdfunding encourages overpromising and under-delivering.
+ Peter Molyneux Won’t Do Interviews After Death Threats
10. YoYo Games sells to PlayTech for $16.4 million
11. Nintendo cancels TVii for Europe
12. Zynga loses $226m in 2014, shutters Zynga China
+ Analyst calls for Zynga to fire Mattrick
13. Report: eSports revenues to hit $465m in 2017
14. World Of Warcraft pet raises $1.9m for Ebola
15. This Immersive Michael Jordan Simulator Is the World’s Coolest Basketball Court
16. Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS) 6(4)
DIGITAL
17. How tech trials force a choice between bad people and bad law
+ That 😉 You Type Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Court of Law
18. Patent troll claims to own Bluetooth, scores $15.7M verdict against Samsung
19. Europe: Now is the time to fix copyright!
20. Why the Copyright Board of Canada Needs a Leafs-Style Tear-Down
21. Fox hurts America yet again, losing fair use sj motion (Rebecca Tushnet)
22. All of This Has Happened Before and All of This Will Happen Again: Innovation in Copyright Licensing (Rebecca Tushnet)
23. Facebook still suspending Native Americans over ‘real name’ policy: Unlike Katy Perry’s Left Shark, many have to provide multiple forms of ID to prove they are who they say they are in latest row over controversial policy
24. Facebook legacy contact can keep your profile updated after you die: Rolling out in the U.S., users can choose legacy contact or opt to have profile deleted forever
25. How Google determined our right to be forgotten: Google has acted as judge, jury and executioner in the wake of Europe’s right to be forgotten ruling. But what does society lose when a private corporation rules public information?
26. Samsung Television Spies on Viewers
+ Samsung Tweaks Television Policy Over Privacy Concerns
27. Russia Reaches The Censorship Endgame: Banning VPNs, Tor And Web Proxies
+ The Anti-Information Age: How governments are reinventing censorship in the 21st century
+ Glavin: The fiasco of bill C-51
+ Bill C-51 Backgrounder #1: The New Advocating or Promoting Terrorism Offence (Craig Forcese & Kent Roach)
+ Bill C-51 Backgrounder #2: The Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s Proposed Power to ‘Reduce’ Security Threats Through Conduct that May Violate the Law and Charter (Craig Forcese & Kent Roach)
+ Obama Signs Executive Order Encouraging Private-Sector Companies To Share Cyber Security Information
+ Did British Spies Use NSA Data to Spy on You? (Quinn Norton)
+ Apple CEO Tim Cook Makes It Clear That He’s Not At All Interested In Giving The Government Backdoors To iOS Encryption
+ Thank Snowden: Internet Industry Now Considers The Intelligence Community An Adversary, Not A Partner
+ How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last: “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered.
28. Why Bell’s Targeted Ad Approach Falls Short on Privacy (Michael Geist)
29. Why we need social media: Press freedom is still declining rapidly
30. Notorious 8chan “subboard” has history wiped after federal judge’s doxing
31. Report: Millions stolen from banks through sophisticated malware
32. Corruption in Internet Governance – Bribery, Cronyism and Nepotism (Ewan Sutherland)
33. Megaupload Programmer Takes Plea Deal, Though It’s Still Unclear What Criminal Law He Violated
34. Your cable company hates you: Why Comcast abuses its customers – That customer service call wasn’t an isolated incident. It’s just part of a depressingly effective business model
35. The Future of Crime: Smartphone Tracking, Neurohacking, and AI Assisted Murder
36. How the NBA became the first major sport to embrace VR: Will intimate access make it more than a gimmick?
37. The revolution wasn’t televised: The early days of YouTube
38. Modern Family’s new episode never leaves the screen of a MacBook Pro: ‘Connection Lost’ feels like a half-hour Apple commercial — but it actually works
39. How Silicon Valley’s counterculture went corporate and ruined everything
40. The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants
CREATIVITY
41. Journalists Face Increasing Danger As Press Freedoms Collapse Worldwide
42. The Untold Story: How Radius Brought the Edward Snowden Doc ‘Citizenfour’ to America
43. Dan Gilbert Didn’t Like A Yahoo Blog Post, So Yahoo Deleted It
44. Dear Elon Musk: Please Put SpaceX Photos In The Public Domain
+ When SpaceX Takes Photos on a NASA Mission, Copyright Law Explodes
45. The Canadian Privacy Cases of 2014
46. Aural, erotic, outrageous: From Madonna to Miley, how video changed the love song
47. How networks speed up TV shows to shove more ads in your unsuspecting face
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By Jon Festinger on February 15, 2015
GAMES
1. ‘DOA 5: Last Round’ Producer Concerned About The ‘Morality’ Of Modders
+ Dead or Alive maker asks modders to be “good and moral” with content: Series’ first PC port could be its last if mod community doesn’t behave.
2. Report: Turkish Government Investigating Violence in ‘Minecraft’
3. Nintendo’s YouTuber Affiliate Plan Is A Bureaucratic Mess Of Delays And Control
4. Content Protection Company Makes Bogus ContentID Claims On Gameplay Videos; Sega Steps In To Clean The Mess Up
5. Valve warns CS:GO tournament players against gambling on events: Stance follows match-fixing scandal that led to prominent player bans.
6. Garena Philippines eSports Changes Policy on LGBT Players in Iron Solari League
7. Brianna Wu speaks up about death threats and personal cost of opposing #GamerGate
8. Women in Games: Everyone needs a hero
9. Crash Override: “Our mission is to return control to the victim”
10. PSA: ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Tackles Gaming, Online Harassment, and More in Tonight’s Episode
11. Video Games Were Never a ‘Boys Club,’ and Never Will Be
12. Pro CS:Go Players Get Banned For Match Fixing, Five Get Reinstated After Investigation
13. ‘I put a troll in jail using my PlayStation’
14. Diablo lll Cheaters Banned
15. More Violent Video Game Research Says Real World Violence Link Is (Junk)
16. Gamer gets swatted while streaming before thousands of viewers: Incidents of so-called swatting pranks appear to be increasing.
17. Video Game Maker Sued By Lawyer/Necromancer For Featuring General Patton In-Game
18. GDC Panel Discussion Explores Moral and Ethical Dilemmas in Games About War
19. More Clarifications From Nintendo on Creator’s Program
20. Godus designer admits Kickstarter promises likely can’t be kept
21. Valve “really uncomfortable” with devs giving away game keys
22. Is Premium Mobile Gaming Viable?
23. $2 Million Up For Grabs In The 2015 Pokémon World Championships
24. Blizzard: “We view eSports as a community builder”
25. TheScore Jumps on Plans to Cover Video Games Like Sports
26. Netflix Is Making A ‘Game Of Thrones’ For All Ages Legend Of Zelda TV Series
27. Call of Duty European championships to be hosted by Royal Opera House: To paraphrase the popular saying: it ain’t over ‘til the fat lady scores a seven-hit killstreak
28. Sony Xperia Z3 range offers PS4 Remote Play
29. How Sega Built The Genesis
DIGITAL
30. What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women
31. UK-US surveillance regime was unlawful ‘for seven years’: Regulations governing access to intercepted information obtained by NSA breached human rights laws, according to Investigatory Powers Tribunal
32. What Rogers will tell you about the police looking into your account
33. Intelligence Community’s Top Lawyer Endorses Desire For Unicorns, Leprechauns & Golden Keys That Don’t Undermine Encryption
34. On Polemics And Substance In Bill C-51 Antiterrorism Act (Craig Forcese)
35. An Open Letter to Prime Minister Cameron: 20th-century solutions won’t help 21st-century surveillance (Jonathan Zittrain)
36. RuNet Watchdog ‘Baffled’ by Twitter’s Refusal to Block Kremlin’s Opponents
37. NSA wins key ruling in years-old phone and Internet spying lawsuit: Case not over yet, says EFF, will continue “fight to end NSA mass surveillance.”
38. EFF Responds to USTR Bullying the World to Repeat Our Copyright Mistakes
+ US’s ‘Naughty List’ Of Countries Whose Intellectual Property Rules We Don’t Like Is A Joke That’s No Longer Funny
39. Fifty Shades Of Fair Use: from the be-thankful-for-fair-use dept
40. Left Shark Bites Back: 3D Printer Sculptor Hires Lawyer To Respond To Katy Perry’s Bogus Takedown
+ Taylor Swift One Ups Katy Perry Again: Threatens To Sue Fans For Etsy Fan Products
41. In Defence of the CRTC’s Super Bowl Advertising Ruling (Michael Geist)
42. Common law trademark exempt to the application of the charter of the French Language
43. Twitter CEO: ‘We suck at dealing with abuse’ – Dick Costolo says trolls are costing Twitter users
44. The Internet is Real: Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road trial, and the quasi-fictions of internet culture.
45. The Report of the Advisory Council to Google on the Right to be Forgotten
46. Will the internet of things finally kill privacy?: Why the FTC’s new report doesn’t go far enough
47. An Exclusive Look at Sony’s Hacking Saga
48. Google executives explain why the MBA approach to building things is ‘stupid’
49. TracFone Pays $40 Million Settlement to FTC For Throttling ‘Unlimited’ Customers
50. FCC Previews ‘New Rules for Protecting the Open Internet’
51. The Decision That Could Finally Kill the Revenge-Porn Business: The Federal Trade Commission says people cannot exploit personal information shared in confidence for commercial gain.
52. People were asked to read aloud the terms and conditions for popular apps and were shocked by what they actually agreed to
53. Samsung’s Smart TV privacy policy sounds like an Orwellian nightmare
+ Today In Creepy Privacy Policies, Samsung’s Eavesdropping TV
54. Google’s slippery slope: If search giant pays Twitter for content, should it pay all publishers?
55. Apple Is Finally Adding the Racially Diverse Emojis You’ve Been Waiting For
56. How YouTube changed the world
57. Why Google Glass Broke
58. Why Oculus is Doomed
59. The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
60. Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence: A true AI might ruin the world—but that assumes it’s possible at all.
61. Why Robot?: Automated journalism is no longer science fiction. It’s time to change what we call it.
+ Coding Creativity: Copyright and the Artificially Intelligent Author (Annemarie Bridy)
62. Before we give doors and toasters sentience, we should decide what we’re comfortable with first: It’s becoming more and more common for everyday appliances to have features we don’t expect, and the implications for privacy and freedom can be surprisingly profound. We should be sure we know what we’re buying into.
63. Rethinking Duration: Disaggregating Copyright’s Rewards and Incentives via a System of Rolling Rights (Rebecca Giblin)
CREATIVITY
64. Labels, not Spotify, are (hurting) artists and breaking the music industry. Here’s how to fix it.
65. The powerful cheat for themselves, the powerless cheat for others: The upper class isn’t less ethical, just more likely to lie for selfish reasons.
66. Investigative Journalists and Digital Security: Perceptions of Vulnerability and Changes in Behavior (Pew Research Center)
67. Yes, Major Record Labels Are Keeping Nearly All The Money They Get From Spotify, Rather Than Giving It To Artists
68. No copyright for recipes, says US court
69. How Japan became a pop culture superpower: Virtually every childhood craze of the past 30 years has its beginnings in Japan. Today its influence is stronger than ever
70. What the Vinyl “Comeback” Really Looks Like…
71. A History Of The Arcade And The Arcade-Goer
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