News of the Week; April 30, 2014
1. Stanford Has a Videogame Controller That Knows if You’re Bored
2. New ESA Report Offers Stats Galore on American Gaming Trends
3. PC market has surpassed console – DFC
4. Women increasing representation among US gamers – ESA
5. Virtual rape and slavery scandal rocks Minecraft community
6. Playing with privilege: the invisible benefits of gaming while male
7. How Dota 2 manipulates your behavior
8. Yes, There are Old Atari Game Cartridges Buried in the Desert
9. Digging up meaning from the rubble of an excavated Atari landfill
10. People donated $100,571 to pay for a game about being a bear
11. Zynga Founder Leaves Daily Role at Struggling Game Maker
12. So you want to publish a game in China…
13. This guy thinks killing video game characters is immoral
14. Video Games That Embrace Irony and Death
15. Sharing joysticks: how video games are opening up to LGBT themes
16. Danish government releases geographic data by way of 1:1 Minecraft map
17. Growth grinds to a halt for Angry Birds’ maker
18. Whatever happened to the arcade-style sports video game?
19. Nintendo Is Sort of Warming Up to This “Internet” Thing
20. Government Buries Massive Trademark Overhaul in Budget Implementation Bill
21. Trademark change bad for business
23. Appeals court deals Apple’s current case against Samsung a massive blow: key patent devalued
24. Two Rulings May Curb Lawsuits Over Patents
25. (Canadian) Government makes over a million requests a year for data from telecoms
26. Declassified FISC Order Shows Verizon Lost Challenge to NSA’s Mass Surveillance Program
27. Communications Privacy for and by Whom?
28. F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad
29. Putin’s Fear of the Internet
30. Justices appear open to limits on cellphone searches
31. Football team settles suit over text messages to fans for $3 million
32. FCC to Release Draft Net Neutrality Rules in May
33. Net Neutrality: A Guide to (and History of) a Contested Idea
34. Does Anyone Like the FCC’s Proposed Net Neutrality Rules?
35. U.S. Plan for Internet Fast Lanes Contrasts With European Rules
36. Different Regulations, Different Regulators: Behind Canada’s Net Neutrality Advantage
37. BitTorrent: Netflix should defeat ISPs by switching to peer-to-peer
+ Here Is the RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Firing Statement
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News of the Week; April 23, 2014
1. US v. SILVIUS, Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit 2014; mod chips conviction
2. King Settles Trademark Disputes With ‘CandySwipe’ and ‘The Banner Saga’ Makers
3. King Stock Bumped Up by Tencent Partnership
4. Candy Crush Gets Nationwide TV Ads in Japan, and They’re Super Weird
5. PS4 outsold Xbox One in March while Titanfall led software sales
6. It’s Official: Consoles Can Be Sold at Chinese Retail
7. China Details Copious Restrictions On Video Game Content
8. Sony sells all Square Enix stock
9. Perfect World to buy $100 million in Shanda shares
10. NCSoft Invests $4.8 Million in Lezhin Entertainment
11. For Zynga, a modest rebound would count as a win
12. Only 2.2% of free-to-play users ever pay – Report
13. My mother made me a gamer, and gave me the skills to deal with her death
14. How Minecraft is helping the United Nations improve the world
15. The Lawless Frontier of Deep Space: Code as Law in EVE Online
16. The Next Big Thing In Video Games: ‘Ethical’ Gaming
17. Tapping Into the Emotional Side of Video Games: Developing Hope, Healing and Love
18. The disappearing inventor (Blog entry by Ken Perlin on the real story of the origins of Oculus and the role of Mark Bolas of USC)
20. Telus must reimburse $2.6M in texting fees, court rules
21. Netflix Asks Appellate Court to Reconsider ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Ruling
22. For world’s biggest troll, first patent case ends up in tatters
23. Argument preview: Free TV, at a bargain price?
+ Why the Aereo Supreme Court case over TV’s future is too tough to call
+ Aereo analysis: Cloud computing at a crossroads
+ Here’s What the Supreme Court Wants to Know About Aereo, in the Justices’ Own Words
24. Copyright is Out of Control
25. Understanding the Crazy Math Apple and Samsung Use to Calculate Patent Damages
26. Record industry finds a new way to squeeze Pandora, but it won’t help musicians
27. When ‘Liking’ a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue
+ After Facebook Flap, General Mills Backs Down From Forced Arbitration Policy
28. The Effect of Social Media in Young Girls
29. Facebook Wants You Talking About the World Cup — So Advertisers Can Find You
30. Amazon Sales Take a Hit in States With Online Tax
31. Protests Continue Against Dropbox After Appointment of Condoleezza Rice to Board
32. Preston-Warner Threatens Legal Action in Github Scandal Fallout
+ Julie Ann Horvath on GitHub Investigation: “How Do You Sleep at Night?”
33. Government of Canada proposes important changes to PIPEDA
34. Key differences between US and Canadian anti-spam laws
35. Big Data is the new Artificial Intelligence
36. Right of Publicity? First, Let Me Take a Selfie
37. Twitter’s Turkey Headache That Won’t End
38. China’s New Internet Crackdown: Not About Porn
39. Google Patents Contact Lenses That Contain Microcameras
41. Hollywood Sci-Fi Films Are Ripping Off Anime
42. Theories of intellectual property: Is it worth the effort?
43. Ignore age—define generations by the tech they use
45. Ethereum
+ Ethereum: Freenet or Skynet ?
46. How the Internet Is Taking Away America’s Religion
jon
News of the Week; April 16, 2014
1. Legal battles shook Titanfall dev Respawn, report says
2. Halo composer fired “without cause”
3. Inside Eve Online’s Fear of a Russian Star Cluster
4. Spector aims to build “Navy SEALs of game development training”
5. How A Drexel Professor Created The World’s Biggest Game Of Tetris
6. Virtual Reality, Oculus Rift, and Computing’s Next Big Reset
7. An oral history of the last 20 years of gaming, as told by PlayStation’s Shuhei Yoshida
8. PC gaming: Not just still alive, but still dominant, says PAX East panel
10. ESA Responds to Column Comparing Drug Use and Slavery to Game Addiction
11. Dispute flares on why game addict killed son
12. Research: The Impact of Video Games on Teen School Grades is Almost Negligible
13. China’s Communist Party Publicly Shames Politicians for Online Gambling, Drinking, and Gaming
15. Traditional games are the real bait-and-switch – Cousins
16. Study finds that 0.22 percent of players account for 46 percent of mobile app revenue
17. Sony sells all Square Enix stock
18. SOE: One Player Has Already Made $100K Creating Items in Player Studio
19. Georgia Passes Law Providing $25 Million in Tax Credits to the Video Games Industry
20. Some Gamers Fear a Dystopian Free-to-Play Future
21. Philippines Government Investigating Leland Yee Gun Smuggling Allegations
22. The FBI Gamified the Hunt For One of Its Most Wanted
23. Supreme Court weighing when online speech becomes illegal threat
24. Laws and Ethics Can’t Keep Pace with Technology
25. Court Declares That, Yes, Bloggers Are Media
26. ECJ declares Dutch home copying levies incompatible with EU law
27. Is Anonymous Texting Ethical?
28. After Netflix pays Comcast, speeds improve 65%
29. Top Android Executive Says Google Didn’t Copy Apple’s iPhone
30. Obama: NSA Must Reveal Bugs Like Heartbleed, Unless They Help the NSA
31. Why Heartbleed Is the Ultimate Web Nightmare
32.All sent and received e-mails in Gmail will be analyzed, says Google
33. Why the Digital Privacy Act Undermines Our Privacy: Bill S-4 Risks Widespread Warrantless Disclosure
34. 10 Charts That Are Changing the Way We Measure Content
35. You Knew This Day Would Come: Crowdfunding Site Raising Crowdfunding for Itself
36. Two Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Talk to Each Other & Get Into a Deep Philosophical Convseration
37. All rise: The era of legal startups is now in session
jon
News of the Week; April 9, 2014
1. Video Game Store Owner Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion, Faces Five Years in Prison
2. Study: Games’ link to aggression comes from challenge, not violence
3. Ultimate Gay Fighter To Be Renamed After Legal Pressure
4. The Reality of Sexism in the Game Industry
5. Are Japanese women the future of its gaming?
6. Blizzard, trans clans, and the evolution of online harassment policy
7. Report: Russia Proposing Stricter Age Restrictions for Video Games and Web Sites
8. This War Of Mine turns war survivors’ tales into game design
9. TabTale: “We don’t believe in virtual currency for kids”
10. Regulatory and tax issues posed by Convertible Virtual Currencies
11. Computers Are Now Able to Teach Each Other Pac-Man, The End is Near
12. Last year, 71 million people watched other people play video games
13. Most Mobile Game Players Quit After One Day
14. Wargaming to Invest $10 Million in Support of eSports
15. Amazon Fire TV: A “nonevent” for games?
16. Ridley Scott is working on a Halo project for Microsoft
17. Xbox has landfill dig for Atari games approved
18. Microsoft will let you share Xbox One clips on YouTube starting tomorrow
19. How pinball and boardwalk amusements gave rise to video games
20. Mozilla’s Chief Felled by View on Gay Unions
21. Why Mozilla’s Chief Had to Resign
22. New California law extends additional protections to minors on the internet
24. Supreme Court passes on NSA bulk phone surveillance case
25. EU high court strikes down metadata collection law
26. Illegal Spying: BCCLA files class action lawsuit against Canada’s electronic spy agency
27. Snowden Speaks: A Vanity Fair Exclusive
29. From Turkey’s ban to “Cuban Twitter”: How countries manipulate the masses on social media
30. Nearly Half Of Americans Claim They’ve Changed Their Behavior Due To NSA
31. U.S. Calls Out Canadian Data Protection as a Trade Barrier
32. E.U. Lawmakers Approve Tough ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules
33. 5 Privacy Laws I Would Put on the Books Right Now
35. Royal Society of Canada says Wi-Fi appears safe, exposure limits fine
36. Court Quickly Rejects Contempt Motion Against Google By Innocence Of Muslims’ Actress
37. Aereo Gets Support from Cable Operators, Law Professors, Tech Industry
38. Competition Bureau Seeks Input on the Updated Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines
39. Never Use the Words “Intellectual Property” When It Matters
41. Why it is not possible to regulate robots
42. Automated ethics
43. The Internet of Things: Monopoly Capitalism vs. Collaborative Commons
44. Is Native Advertising Legal? Does It Matter?
45. The Guilt of the Video-game Millionaires
46. NBA star Jeremy Lin says DOTA 2 is “more than just a game”
jon
News of the Week; April 2, 2014
1. The Times They Are a’Trollin’: World of Warcraft Wins Suit against Patent Trolls
2. PlayStation problems: no defense in Sony’s cyberattack suits
3. 3DRealms to Gearbox: ‘We Still Own Duke Nukem’
4. Epic’s goal: Don’t be Comcast
6. Is The Oculus Rift Acquisition A PR Disaster For Kickstarter And Facebook?
7. Oculus founder didn’t expect “so many death threats” after Facebook deal
8. Is Facebook buying Oculus a boost for Morpheus?
9. Study finds online gamers aren’t antisocial basement dwellers
10. Free-to-play whales more rational than assumed
11. Console microtransactions: $352 million annually and growing
12. Games evangelists and naysayers
13. A Video Game Without Rules Inevitably Devolves Into Lord of the Flies
14. Was CCP right to ban this Eve Online player?
15. Banned Titanfall Players Can Still Play Online… With Other Cheaters
16. Violent Video Games Don’t Exist
18. A Lesson in Stupid Moral Panics: The History Of Dungeons And Dragons Bans
20. EU approves UK games tax relief, signalling £188m windfall
21. App Maker Buckles on 1st Day of Trading
22. Inside the disintegration of a game jam reality show
23. EA’s Moore apologises for Frostbite prank
24. NSA performed warrantless searches on Americans’ calls and emails – Clapper
26. Turkey Escalates Internet Blocking With YouTube Ban
27. Huawei on NSA: If foreign spies attacked a US firm, there’d be “outrage”
28. Google says government requests ‘up 120%’ in four years
29. Microsoft will no longer look through your Hotmail to investigate leaks
30. Activists to Appeal US Judge’s Ruling on Baidu’s Censorship
31. UK Court Says Information Stored Electronically Is Not ‘Property’
32. The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz
33. Supreme Court Seems Wary of Software Patent Case
34. Apple faces certified class action suit over e-book price conspiracy
35. Big Changes Coming to Canadian Trademark Law
36. The Canadian legal landscape in 3D scanning and printing: The next frontier of IP law
37. The rise of the API economy and consumer-led ecosystems
38. Op-ed: The legality of virtual currency
39. Old Rivalry Aired Again in Patent Case Between Apple and Samsung
40. Three Mozilla board members—including former CEOs—step down
41. At Mozilla, a Chief’s Support of Gay Marriage Ban Causes Conflict
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