News of the Week; June 17, 2015

GAMES

1. YouTube Announces YouTube Gaming, A Standalone App To Compete With Twitch

2. Shenmue 3 Raises More Than $1M On Kickstarter In Less Than Three Hours

3. Winko Games raises $1.4 million for core mobile title

4. €2m for eSports startup Dojo Madness

5. No Man’s Sky E3 2015 Gameplay Shows Universe-Sized Sandbox

6. Arc System Works buys Double Dragon rights

7. Xbox One to be Backward Compatible with Xbox 360 Games, Microsoft Reveals at E3 2015

8. 3DS tops 15 million sold in US

9. EA: “We have to start building new IP that might feel like a big risk today”

10. EA VP: “It’s not worth paying for Paris Hilton”

11. Minecraft “Playdate”

12. Amazon embraces “long-form” mobile gaming 

DIGITAL

1. B.C. Court of Appeal decision prohibits Google from delivering offending search results

+ BC Court of Appeals affirms worldwide injunction against search engine

+ Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Google Inc., 2015 BCCA 265 (CanLII)

2. Russian Roulette and the Right to be Forgotten: The newest Russian proposal to restrict free speech on the internet

3. Entrepreneurs And Investors In Turkey Emboldened By Election Results

4. USA Freedom Act to end NSA bulk data collection

+ Thought bulk data collection was gone? Think again

5. What The U.K. Surveillance Powers Review Says On Encryption And Hacking

6. An Online Refuge for Venezuela’s Intellectuals

7. Stephen Witt: ‘Music piracy is illegal – but morally, is it wrong?’ – Kitty Empire talks to Stephen Witt about his eagerly awaited book charting the rise of the MP3 file, the online pirates who exploited it and the record industry that ignored its cultural impact until it was far too late

8. Juror ruling prompts call to look at Criminal Code

9. Reddit Bans Five Harassing Subreddits, Its Trolls Respond Exactly As You’d Expect

10. Facebook Now Cares About How Long You Look At Stuff In Your News Feed

11. The FTC Goes After Its First Failed Crowdfunding Campaign

12. The FCC will now take your net neutrality complaints: File complaint on FCC.gov, and your ISP has to respond within 30 days.

13. YouTube trains its sights on traditional TV: ‘It’s a no-growth business’

14. Periscope, Piracy, Profit? What the future holds for live-streaming apps: An intellectual property attorney and video streaming executive discuss the possible outcomes of this new form of media infringement.

15. AMC’s streaming move sends shudders through cable but will the bubble burst?: As AMC tests Shudder, its horror-only streaming service, Brian Moylan sees the future less in a proliferation of niche subscriptions than in mergers

16. Will Bitcoin Finally Bring Down The House Of Medici?

17. Will Shazam Break the Video-Recognition Logjam?

18. Canadian Competition Bureau issues draft update of Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines

19. This Is How Men and Women Handle Email Differently

20. Why Technology Hasn’t Delivered More Democracy: New technologies offer important tools for empowerment — yet democracy is stagnating. What’s up?

CREATIVITY

1. Numaish Karachi – can art installations change this violent megacity’s image?: Pakistan’s largest city has suffered 13,500 killings in the past five years – a level of violence that has severely restricted the use of its public spaces. So a group of local residents decided it was time to reclaim them for the people of Karachi

2. Are We All Mistuning Our Instruments, and Can We Blame the Nazis?: A small cadre of fanatics insists music would sound better if instruments were tuned differently.

3. PC Music And The Limitations Of Parody

4. Divining the Future of Television

5. Why a groovy 1970s sex ed comic book sparked lawsuits and loathing

jon