News of the Week; May 27, 2015

GAMES

1. Rockstar sues BBC

+ Take-Two sues BBC over ‘Grand Theft Auto’ movie

2. These two Diablo III players stole virtual armor and gold — and got prosecuted IRL

3. ‘League of Legends’ player admits swatting and stalking multiple victims in the U.S. and Canada

+ 17-year-old pleads guilty to swatting: British Columbian admits to 23 offences, harassment mostly aimed at young women who played League of Legends

4. Wii blamed for RV Fire in Colorado Springs

5. Dodgy Elder Scrolls Online keys deactivated from today

6. Desura addresses delays in payments to developers

7. GTA Player Says He Hired Cheater To Rescue Him From…Another Cheater

8. BioWare Writer Talks Gay Romances and Sexual Diversity in Gaming: “Ultimately, it hasn’t really affected our sales insofar as we can tell.”

9. Multiplayer video games may improve cooperation, mitigate aggression: Research suggests cooperative gamers play nicer, even when the game is violent.

10. F2P Comes of Age: How to make money without being ‘evil’

11. Zynga’s old sports team hired by FanDuel – Report

12. Double Fine regains Iron Brigade publishing rights

13. How Sony Or Microsoft Could Use Subscription To Win Video Games

14. Kickstarter, or, Every Publisher’s New Greenlight Process

15. The First First-Person Shooter

16. This Is What Pac-Man‘s Creator Thinks 35 Years Later

17. My son has $23.6 billion. How is yours doing?

DIGITAL

18. The Mary Meeker Internet Trends 2015 Report

19. »Intellectual property rights are not human rights«, UN special rapporteur tells European Parliament

20. Garcia v. Google reversed; many sigh in relief (Rebecca Tushnet)

21. The NSA tried to use app stores to send malware to targets

22. The End of Privacy

23. Young Saudis, Bound by Conservative Strictures, Find Freedom on Their Phones

24. Anti-NSA Pranksters Planted Tape Recorders Across New York and Published Your Conversations

25. Which Students Get to Have Privacy?: There’s a fresh push to protect student data. But the people who need the most protection are the ones being left behind. (danah boyd)

26. If You Know About It, You’re the Publisher – Website Operator Liability for Defamation (Bob Tarantino)

27. This Is What It’s Like To Fall In Love With A Woman Who Doesn’t Exist: Leah Palmer was a high-flying fashionista with a jet-setting lifestyle and a host of admirers on social media. But her entire existence was a fraud – a multiyear hoax that depended on stealing someone else’s life. BuzzFeed News tells the extraordinary story.

28. Reddit CEO: Getting Rid of Salary Negotiations Helps Everyone, Not Just Women -Ellen Pao says her fight against gender discrimination in Silicon Valley isn’t over.

29. What If Facebook Actually Paid People For Content?

30. Lawyers circling lawyers in frenzied Facebook ownership flap: Attorneys who assisted fugitive’s claim to Facebook are fighting Zuckerberg back.

31. Trivial thoughts on substantial parts (Bob Tarantino)

32. Why It’s Time to Stop Hating Spotify

33. Robot Journalism: Algorithms are More of a Tool than a Threat

34. Will Periscope and Other Live-Streaming Apps Kill the Cable TV Star?

+ Fan streaming apps have sports world debating TV rights

35. David Letterman and the long, Internet-enabled decline of the nightly talk show

36. More Provinces Crowd into Crowdfunding, but Not Yet Ontario or Alberta

37. This Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Has a Few Concerns

38. Hacking Our Moral Compass

39. How The Raspberry Pi Sparked A Maker Revolution

40. What’s Hot in the Art World? Algorithms: Admirers hold on to computerized formulas; paying $2,500 for a ‘qrpff’ necktie

CREATIVITY

41. Brands, The New Merchants of Cool: What happens when corporations replace major labels as patrons of independent music?

42. Creative Thinking Can Inspire Unethical Behavior

43.  Pop Music Is More About Advertising Now Than Before — And Nobody Realizes It

44. 7 Deadly Sins: Where Hollywood Is Wrong About The Future Of TV

45. Jorge Ramos: Of journalists and dinosaurs

46. How Indie Rock Changed the World: The influence of geeks with guitars on culture, from DIY to social media

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