News of the Week; July 15, 2015

GAMES

1. Nintendo asks GitHub to make Javascript-based Game Boy emulator disappear: More than 20 games— Pokémon Silver and Gold included—were formerly available.

2. Randy Pitchford on ‘Aliens Colonial Marines’ lawsuit: ‘a huge waste of time’

3. Multiple Epic Games forums suffer security breach

4. Time study: boys think women are over-sexualised in games

5. Tale of Tales takes aim at game industry’s support of violent content

6. Konami removes ‘ Kojima’ branding from ‘Metal Gear Solid V’ cover art

7. Ubisoft selling twice as many games on PS4 as on Xbox One: Xbox One games only selling at the same rate as last-gen Xbox 360 and PS3.

8. If consoles can’t crack China, their future is limited

9. iOS game revenues show top 20 dominate – Newzoo

10. “It’s down to having to be in the top 10 to actually turn a profit”

11. Capcom signs first-ever 3D printing deal for ‘Street Fighter V’

12. Microsoft: First version of HoloLens won’t be for games

13. EA offers game streaming through Comcast

14. Games deals fell 89% in first half of 2015 – Digi-Capital

15. The UK National Videogame Arcade is the inspirational mecca that gaming needs: More interactive installation than arcade, the NVA shows you what makes games tick.

16. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died at age 55

+ Obituary: Satoru Iwata

DIGITAL

1. Right to be forgotten: Supreme Court of British Columbia denies injunction to compel a search engine to remove search results worldwide Niemela v. Malamas, 2015 BCSC 2014 

2. British Columbia Court of Appeal orders Google to remove search results worldwide

3. ACLU to appellate court: Please halt NSA’s resumed bulk data collection

4. China’s new Internet law introduces stricter censorship, surveillance powers

+ How China Tamed The Country’s Top Bloggers, And Took Back The Net

5. Putin Aide, Apparently Non-Ironically, Gives Facebook A Lecture On Free Speech

6. Internet censorship reaching dangerous levels in Turkey

7. Patent troll lawsuits head toward all-time high: Of high-tech patent suits, 90 percent are filed by “non-practicing entities.”

8. Troubling Trademark Ruling Over Amazon’s Internal Search Results

9. Here are EFF’s most influential cases from its first 25 years

10. FTC exploring whether Apple’s 30% cut from music streaming apps is legal

11. Creepy or Cool? Your Phone Knows When You’re Depressed: A new study from Northwestern used an individual’s smartphone habits to predict whether or not the individual was depressed.

12. Panopticon For Sale: Trade between authoritarian regimes and corporations peddling cyber-surveillance systems has all but eradicated notions of privacy.

13. Hacking Team orchestrated brazen BGP hack to hijack IPs it didn’t own

14. The Web We Have to Save: The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying. Why is nobody stopping it?

15. EU Parliament Rejects Bad Proposals On Copyright Over Outdoor Photography And Links

+ EU parliament defends Freedom of Panorama & calls for copyright reform

16. Canada Completes Ratification of Convention on Cybercrime

17. Conservative MP says Bill C-51 reflects the teachings of Jesus

18. Ellen Pao steps down as reddit CEO: Exit comes one week after massive user backlash against site management.

+ Reddit’s secrets are being leaked by the company’s former CEO

19. reddit loses another prominent female employee as chief engineer quits

20. Canada’s Thriving Tech Sector: By The Numbers

21. Apple is China’s top brand device – Newzoo

22. Nobody can link to this article: considering the legal issues involved in the Pan Am games website’s terms of use prohibition on linking without permission

23. Maybe passwords on sticky notes are the way to go?

24. The HoloLens’ limited field of view doesn’t matter, and here’s why

25. Virtual reality creates potentially real legal issues

26. Intel confirms tick-tock-shattering Kaby Lake processor as Moore’s Law falters 

CREATIVITY

1. Judge Rejects New “Blurred Lines” Trial, Trims Damages to $5.3 Million

2. U.S. museums and Looted art—is it whether you win or how you play?

3. Federal court upholds cancellation of REDSKINS trademark registration

4. Europe Frees Zorro From Trademark Restrictions

5. Why give away your work for free?: What do acclaimed authors Cory Doctorow, Paulo Coelho, Neil Gaiman, Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss and Hugh Howey all have in common? They give away their best work — for free.

6. What Is Canada’s International Copyright Policy?

7. Chain, Chest, Curse: Combating Book Theft In Medieval Times

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