News of the Week; May 6, 2015

GAMES

1. Valve gives developers power to ban players

2. Sooner or later, paid-for mods are coming

3. id Software planned to pay mod makers in 1995

4. Internet Archive’s MS-DOS Twitter games suspended

5. Glu Mobile gains $126 million Tencent investment and signs up Britney Spears

6. ‘Dota 2’ The International 2015 Compendium generates $2 million for prize pool at launch

7. Revenues up 33% YoY for PlayStation

8. EA grows sales to $4.5 billion in Fiscal 2015

9. Lawyer: 38 Studios documents shouldn’t be released piecemeal

10. What is happening at Konami?

11. A Saudi Prince Is Using Video Games To Fuel An Intellectual Renaissance In The Middle East

12. Homophobic game gets pulled from Steam Greenlight, developer issues statement

13. Valve: “Getting people sick isn’t a choice”

14. Game of Fear: What if a stalker had an army? Zoe Quinn’s ex-boyfriend was obsessed with destroying her reputation—and thousands of online strangers were eager to help.

15. GamerGate D.C. gathering targeted by bomb threat

16. Interzone CEO faces 120 years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering

17. Myst TV show reportedly heading to Hulu

18. Headline: The Era of Japan’s All-Powerful Videogame Designers Is Over

19. These are the first finalists for the new World Video Game Hall of Fame

20. Madden 16 simulation predicts which players will be arrested this season

21. Ten Old Car Video Games That Are Still Great Today

22. A reenactment of Floyd Mayweather v. Manny Pacquiao in ‘Mike Tyson’s Punchout’

23. This Video Game Has Solved The Problem of Learning Guitar: I tried taking lessons. I tried reading guitar tabs online. The only thing that worked was Rocksmith.

24. A Rediscovered Mainframe Game From 1974 Might Be The First Text Adventure

DIGITAL

25. “Homophobe” brings Ireland’s first “right to be forgotten” court case

26. Revenge porn – the need to legislate between privacy and copyright?

27. Protecting Users’ Location Data From An Unconstitutional Search

28. Privacy trade-offs in retail tracking

29. Apple Has Plans for Your DNA: The iPhone could become a new tool in genetic studies.

30. How YouTube and Build-A-Bear Engage Kids Without Collecting Data

31. Secret Shuts Down

32. Norms of Computer Trespass (Orin Kerr)

33. The Great Database of China: Rating Moral Behavior, Blacklisting Citizens

34. And Another One Bites The Dust: Mass Surveillance Ruled Unconstitutional In Slovak Republic

35. New EFF ‘404’ Report Shows How Draconian Copyright Policies Stifle Online Speech Worldwide

+ Executive Summary: Missing Stories From the 301 Blacklist

+ USTR Releases Its Annual Special 301 ‘Naughty’ List Of Countries; EFF Responds With ‘Special 404’ List

36. Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch: Aggressive tactics from the music giant have garnered scrutiny from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission

37. Fair Use At Risk When Private Companies Get To Make The Decision For Us

38. Grooveshark Shuts Down to Settle Copyright Infringement Suit

39. The Great Unbundling

40. Why Film Bizzers Are Still Outraged Over Europe’s Digital Single Market Plan

41. Rogers agrees to $5 million refund for charges resulting from misleading ads

42. Forget, Mayweather v. Pacquaio: The Big Fight Was Apparently Hollywood v. Periscope Streaming

43. Pro-Russian Videos Get Fake Views With Help From Malware

44. 3D printing and intellectual property rights in Canada

45. Facebook legacy contact initiative expands to Canada

46. Facebook Opens Internet.Org To All Developers In Response To Net Neutrality Concerns

47. Dear Tom Wheeler: I’m Sorry I Thought You Were A Mindless Cable Shill

48. Someone Has A Domain For Carly Fiorina’s Name And Is Pretty Upset With Her Layoffs While At HP

49. Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook are at war over the future of news — and one of them tried to buy a media company

50. The (Very) Big Fight For The Small Screen: A rising class of Internet video companies is challenging the supremacy of broadcast TV—and they’ve come with a list of 10 Totally Awesome Reasons Why They’re Doing It Wrong.

51. Coding has become the fourth literacy 

CREATIVITY

52. ‘Blurred Lines’ Judge Asked to Grant New Trial

53. FBI Spent Years ‘Researching’ The Lyrics To ‘Louie, Louie’ Before Realizing The Copyright Office Must Have Them

54. Judge Upholds State’s Alamo Trademark

55. John Green’s Brandcast Speech

56. Is the news behaving more like advertising?

57. Katy Perry’s left shark – take 2 

58. How Hollywood Keeps Out Women

59. Billionaire investor Peter Thiel: ‘Always aim for a monopoly. From society’s perspective, it’s complicated. But from the inside, I always want to have a monopoly.’

60. Technology is disrupting Hollywood and its gonna hit hard

jon