News of the Week; January 28, 2015

GAMES

1. Company Wants All EA Profits From Nine Sports Games Due To Alleged Patent Infringement

2. ‘DOTA’ Banned in Salawag, Philippines After Fatal Stabbings

3. Valve Bans ‘Counter-Strike’ Pros For Match Fixing

4. Lohan v. Take Two – Reply in Support of Motion to Dismiss.pdf

5. One Week of Harassment on Twitter (Anita Sakeesian)

6. Feminist Frequency to pivot toward combating “gendered online harassment”: FF discloses financials, announces plans for new “masculinity in games” video series.

7. Digital addiction afflicts young players, cramps lives: Growing numbers of people are seriously hooked on video games, social media, digital devices

8. Dragon Age: Inquisition recognized by GLAAD

9. Former RI Secretary of State Fined $18K For 38 Studios Lobbying Case Antics

10. PSN hack settlement process begins

11. Nintendo does not reward risk taking – Adelman

12. Ubisoft Takes Heat for Deactivating Game Keys Over The Weekend 

Deactivated Ubisoft game keys were bought from EA’s Origin using stolen credit cards

13. Sony is now actually removing features from PlayStation Vita

14. EA holiday quarter exceeds expectations

15. Mobile-only gamers account for 20% of the market – NPD

16. ISIS and gaming: 5 students want to teach about surviving under the militants’ heel

17. Inside the Largest Virtual Psychology Lab in the World: Riot Games wants you to behave yourself when you play League of Legends, so it’s turned the game into a virtual lab

18. Athlete and Hollywood focused talent agency acquires e-Sports group

19. The Untold Story Of The Invention Of The Game Cartridge: How A Forgotten Company’s 1970s Technical Breakthrough Launched A Billion-Dollar Business And Helped Spawn A New Creative Medium

20. The Psychology of Flow: What Game Design Reveals about the Deliberate Tensions of Great Writing

21. New digital library will preserve video game journalism for future generations

DIGITAL

22. Top 10 Internet Law Developments Of 2014

23. 2014: the year in review for Canadian copyright law

24. Zoë Keating vs YouTube: The End of an Artist’s Right to Choose Where Their Music Appears on The Internet.

25. Recording Industry Has ‘Virtually Eliminated Illegal File-Sharing’ In Norway — By Offering Better Products

26. DRM Destroys Value: Why Years Old, But DRM Free, Devices Sell For Twice The Price Of New Devices

27. The Entire Concept Of Intellectual Property Is Proof That Free Markets Aren’t Perfect

28. 4 Ways Copyright Law Actually Controls Your Whole Digital Life

29. College Claims Copyright On 16th Century Michelangelo Sculpture, Blocks 3D Printing Files

30. The Eureka Myth: How misunderstandings about creativity sustain a flawed copyright system. (Jessica Silbey)

31. It’s all over: Barrett Brown, formerly of Anonymous, sentenced to 63 months

US reporter jailed for linking to stolen data

32. Can robots break the law? (Andres Guadamuz)

33. DOJ Pays $134,000 To Settle Case Of DEA Agents Impersonating A Woman On Facebook

34. Your Private Data Isn’t Yours — Maybe It Never Was

35. Pointing the Finger: Who should be held liable when there’s a massive data breach at a big company?

36. The Internet of Things just got a watchdog: FTC issues official report: Thinking about security first could be a tall order for small companies.

37. Verizon’s Mobile ‘Supercookies’ Seen as Threat to Privacy

38. Netflix’s Viewing Data: How We Know Where You Are in House of Cards

39. Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads

CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents: Global sites for sharing movies, photos, music targeted in mass anti-terror surveillance

Canadian spy ops targeted global file-sharing services, drowned in Glee episodes: Canada’s version of the NSA targeted RapidShare, MegaUpload, and SendSpace.

40. Cops decry Waze traffic app as a “police stalker”

41. China Cracks Down On VPN Services After Censorship System ‘Upgrade’

42. Mass Surveillance Report (Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights)

43. We Need a Manhattan Project for Cyber Security

44. EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance

45. Europe’s data protection laws are changing, are you prepared?

46. Turkish court orders Facebook to censor pages insulting Prophet Muhammed

Rather than face ban in Turkey, Facebook blocks “anti-Islamic” pages

47. The news website that’s keeping press freedom alive in Egypt: Mada Masr was formed just before military coup of 2013. Amid growing censorship, its staff have risked their lives to continue reporting. Can they stay true to their mission?

48. Deep Web Marketplaces

49. Coinbase Is Opening The First Regulated Bitcoin Exchange In The U.S.

50. Is the Digital Taxman Headed to Canada? (Michael Geist)

51. Hands-on: Microsoft’s HoloLens is flat-out magical

Project HoloLens: Our Exclusive Hands-On With Microsoft’s Holographic Goggles

52. How virtual reality ate the Sundance Film Festival: The future of independent film may not be film at all

Virtual reality: a new creative medium where the default state is belief

53. Feminist bloggers are not your therapists

54. Fighting Sexism In Silicon Valley

55. Bill Gates on Mobile Banking, Connecting the World and AI

56. This reality show confronts online trolls in real life

57. Exclusive: politicians are supporting Comcast’s TWC merger with letters ghostwritten by Comcast: Documents reveal the cozy relationship between lobbyists, officials, and the FCC

58. Back-up brains: The era of digital immortality

59. The Future of Medium: A critical look at the successes, challenges, and ambitions of this growing platform

60. Building an Internet Movement from the Bottom Up: The Internet is simply an effective tool for connecting people. Whether it becomes a force for good or evil is up to its users.

61. People can be induced to remember crimes they never committed: Implanting a false memory of committing a crime is easier than you think.

62. Could Virtual Reality Make Us Better People?: Scientists are using new immersive technology to have people virtually walk a mile in others shoes. Can we create empathy with just a silly headset?

63. From Science Fiction to Reality: The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

CREATIVITY

64. The Trademark Lawyers For The Seattle Seahawks Have Apparently Lost Their Minds

65. Hockey Player Feels The Streisand Effect After Trying To Defensively Trademark His Nickname

66. Nike sued over Michael Jordan logo

67. We Should All Step Back from Security Journalism: I’ll Go First (Quinn Norton)

68. How Rap Genius and explainer sites are killing music journalism

69. Newsonomics: The U.S. Newspaper industry’s $1.4 Billion Money Hole

70. Bigger than Hollywood: Apple paid $10 billion to developers in calendar 2014.

jon