GAMES
1. EFF Files Amicus Brief Supporting EA in ‘Davis v. EA’
2. Techland Responds To ‘Dying Light’ Modding Community Concerns
+ YouTubers Respond To ‘Nintendo Creator’s Program’
+ PewDiePie criticizes Nintendo’s Let’s Play plans
6. Introducing ‘Joystiq X Engadget’: A new beginning
7. Hearthstone’s Team Archon releases Hosty hours after cheating allegations
8. Inside the Tragic, Obsessive World of Video Game Addicts
9. Code Reseller Targeted By Ubisoft Denies Wrongdoing
10. Raptr warns users of security breach
12. War Games: the link between gaming and military recruitment
13. PlayStation buoyant in mixed Sony quarter
14. SOE acquired, becomes Daybreak Game Company
15. Report: Alibaba pumps $10 million into Ouya microconsole to launch in China
16. Gree posts Q2 loss of ¥7.66bn on sales of ¥24.1bn
17. Sega Sammy Announces Restructuring Plans, Mass Layoffs
18. Law & Order SVU Tackles Video Games and Online Harassment in Upcoming Episode
19. Attorney For Former RI Secretary of State Faces Fine Over 38 Studios Court Action
20. Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on Steve Jobs and virtual reality
21. EFF’s ‘Stupid Patent of the Month’ Is Game-Related
22. Marshawn Lynch And Rob Gronkowski Have An Extreme ‘Mortal Kombat’ Showdown
DIGITAL
24. The Pirate Bay Is Back After Nearly Two Months Of Downtime
28. The Guardian Details The NSA’s Spying Activities on Leaky Apps Like ‘Angry Birds’
29. Harper proposes new powers for spies, plays down civil liberties concerns
+ Canada’s privacy commissioner weighs in on anti-terror bill; takes aim at oversight.
31. The Canadian Privacy and Civil Liberties Punch in the Gut (or Why CSE/CSIS Oversight is Not Enough) (Michael Geist)
32. Government’s Cloud Computing Strategy Focused on Keeping Data in Canada
34. “No Fast Lanes and Slow Lanes”: CRTC Rules Bell’s Mobile TV Service Violates Telecommunications Act (Michael Geist)
35. CRTC says that the future of over-the-air television is here, and it looks a lot like the past
36. FCC Raises Minimum Broadband Standards Substantially
37. FCC Prohibits American Businesses From Blocking Wi-Fi Signals
38. Verizon Finally Buckles, Will Allow A Total Opt Out From Sneaky Super Cookies
+ My Official Super Bowl Television Post (Bruce Boyden)
41. Copyright Law Is Eating Away At Our Cultural History: And It’s Time To Fix That
42. From vinyl to digital – the second hand digital music market and implications for copyright
44. New challenges for old laws: B.C. Court considers employee misuse of social media
45. Revenge Porn & Canadian Law
46. Formation 8 And Palantir Founder Joe Lonsdale Named In Sexual Assault Lawsuit
47. Why Does Facebook Censor Gay Images?
48. Tech’s High Barrier to Entry for the Underprivileged
49. Study: Facebook Can Cause Depression
50. From “Trust In News” to “News Profiling”
CREATIVITY
51.Bizarre Plagiarism Fight Erupts After Two People Take Exact Same Photo
52. My Gravity Lawsuit And How It Affects Every Writer Who Sells To Hollywood
53. How foreign governments can influence American media – and tried to block my documentary
54. How ‘Selma’ Got Smeared: On historical drama and its malcontents
55. The Digital Future of TV Networks & The Original Series Crunch
56. Creator Or Buyer: Who Really Owns The Art?
57. French Civil Supreme Court: A Corporation Cannot be the Author of a Work Protected by Copyright
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