News of the Week; February 11, 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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