News of the Week; June 25, 2014
1. Nintendo loses UK patent ruling to Philips
+ The indefiniteness of Father’s Day fun – Triton Tech of Texas v. Nintendo of America
+ After losing patent suit, Nintendo plans appeal
3. Net neutrality the biggest issue facing games – Lanning
4. “Gamers are not criminals and they do not need DRM”
5. Spy Satellite Agency Wants to Utilize ‘Video game Technology’ for Improving Data Collection
6. Witcher 3 Design Documents Stolen, Leaked on Reddit
7. EA Looking Into Possible ‘False’ Bans in Battlefield 3
8. Ubisoft Comments on ‘Watch Dogs’ PC Mod
9. Ubisoft: Future Protagonists Will be More Diverse
10. How Making Games Helped Her Deal With Evil
11. How video games can affect adolescent brains
12. As game players diversify, developers start to rethink the stars of their games
13. Here’s how exploitative Minecraft servers can be
14. What Nintendo’s Top Game Creators Think Of Minecraft
15. EZK’s Take on Fair Use and Let’s Play Videos
16. Game software market to hit $100 billion by 2018 – DFC
17. IGDA: Over Half of Developers Surveyed Think Unions are a Good Idea
18. Crytek misses payroll for months – Report
19. Ubisoft responds to Quebec tax relief cuts
20. Xbox head on stand-alone Kinect: They’ll buy it
21. HB Studios: No licenses, no problem
22. How indie film financing could shape the future of games
23. What Are eSports? A Pro Videogaming Guide for the Rest of Us
24. Huh: School Offering Real League Of Legends Scholarship
25. The Kiss That Changed Video Games
26. How A Seemingly Impossible Game Is Possible
27. The five most disruptive ideas in video game design
28. Linden Lab is building a spiritual sequel to Second Life
29. Doing it wrong: World of Warcraft player grinds to max level by picking herbs in training level
30. Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo in Broadcasters’ Challenge
+ ABC v. Aereo (SCOTUS decision)
+ Statement from Aereo CEO and Founder Chet Kanojia on United States Supreme Court Decision
31. Canada’s New Trademarks Act Receives Royal Assent
32. Super Kat-Exclusive: here’s Commission’s draft White Paper on EU copyright
33. Of Course Tesla Wasn’t Just Being Altruistic In Opening Up Its Patents: That’s The Whole Point!
34. Chromebook Buyers Upset at Cutoff of Promised Free Data
+ Google gives $150 apology to Chromebook owners deprived of Verizon data
35. That Story You’ve Read About YouTube ‘Blocking’ Indie Artists… Yeah, That’s Not Accurate
36. (U.S) Supreme Court Recognizes Limits in Software Patentability
+ Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank (decision)
37. Bill S-4 Passes Senate, Despite Supreme Court Ruling Against Warrantless Access
39. Privacy and surveillance: 8 things every Canadian should know
40. House votes 293-123 to cut funding for NSA spying on Americans
42. Exposed: Massive mobile malware network used by cops globally
44. Canadian Court Asserts the Right to Censor Google Results Around the World
46. The richest man in Vegas has declared war on internet gamblers
47. Rights holders can control resale of digital content that is not software, rules German court
48. The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
49. These Haptic Gloves Can Teach Your Brain Skills Even When You’re Not Paying Attention
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News of the Week; June 18, 2014
1. Nintendo Wins Patent Infringement Lawsuit Appeal
2. How Apple TV might disrupt Microsoft and Sony
3. Research: ‘Polite’ Female and ‘Rude’ Male Gamers Accepted Most in Online Games
4. “Inclusivity always seems to end up on the cutting board”
+ Far Cry 4 to also skip playable female character due to workload
+ Animating the Ladies: Ubisoft fundamentally doesn’t get it
+ If Our Videogames Are Going to Be Sexist, Let’s at Least Be Honest About It
6. Looking at Link Between Violent Video Games and Lack of Empathy
7. Kojima: Bigger budgets make authorship more difficult
8. Mobile games market to hit $28.9 billion by 2016 – Juniper
9. Game subsidies cut as Quebec slashes spending – report
10. The world’s largest video game collection sells for $750k at auction
11. Valve Bans CS: Go Community Content Creators for Using Copyrighted Artwork
12. Notch clarifies Minecraft EULA changes
13. The DNA of Candy Crush Saga and Other Successful Match-3 Games
14. The Golden Curve: Determining player value in freemium apps
15. Is Sony’s PS4 Eating Microsoft and Nintendo’s Lunch?
16. Capcom shareholders reject anti-takeover plan
17. Nordic Games Owns ‘THQ’ Trademark
18. New AFM deal with Microsoft is welcome news for game musicians
19. PS4, Xbox One seeing much higher digital download attach rates
20. Oops: Xbox Advertisement Results In Aaron Paul Turning On Your Console
21. The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic
22. Canadian Supreme Court Says Government Needs To Get A Warrant To Get Your Internet Info
+ Supreme Court Delivers Huge Victory for Internet Privacy & Blows Away Gov’t Plans for Reform
+ SCC protects Internet users’ expectation of privacy in online activities
23. Congressman asks NSA to provide metadata for “lost” IRS e-mails
24. Microsoft challenges US gov’t warrant to access overseas customer data
+ Apple, Cisco, AT&T join Microsoft in fight against global search warrant
25. Get a warrant for cell phone location tracking, US appeals court says
26. Global Deletion Orders? B.C. Court Orders Google To Remove Websites From its Worldwide Index
+ Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack
27. Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions
28. The Facebook War: Would taking down the social network justify a real-world attack?
29. Why Online Tracking Is Getting Creepier
30. We Need to Regulate Technology That Can Detect Your Emotions
31. Thoughts on Privacy: The right way forward.
32. AT&T Phone Records, Social Security Numbers Hacked
33. FCC Looking Into Netflix’s Complaints About Verizon, Comcast
+ FCC gets Comcast, Verizon to reveal Netflix’s paid peering deals
34. Apple Settles E-Book Pricing Antitrust Suit
35. Tesla will use patents to subvert patent system
36. New study suggests patent trolls really are killing startups
38. The tech industry’s God complex is getting out of control
39. Marc Andreessen and the Inevitability of Catastrophic Ideas
40. YouTube to block indie labels who don’t sign up to new music service
41. The Dark Side Of Facebook, Where People Lie, Steal, And Make Millions
43. Winter Has Come for TV Advertising: YouTubers Are Getting More Viewers Than ‘Game of Thrones’
44. 7th Circuit confirms that Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain
46. Hackers are the immune system for the information age
47. Iraqis Turn to Whisper to Circumvent Government’s Social Media Blackout
jon
News of the Week; June 11, 2014
1. Activision Blizzard CEO must face lawsuit over $8.2-billion buyout
2. NCAA Settles Video Game Lawsuit
3. Marty O’Donnell files lawsuit against Bungie for unpaid benefits
4. Nintendo Shuts Down European HQ, Lays Off 130
5. Snatching Atari Back From the Grave, Again
6. Video Games Developed and Published in Canada Central to 2014 E3 Expo
7. E3 2014: EA talks of “commitment to put players first”
8. Mattrick: Zynga left its lunchbox unattended
9. Girly video games: rewriting a history of pink
10. Aisha Tyler on Race, Sexism and Video Games (Q&A)
11. No female Assassin’s Creed characters a “reality of development”
+ Assassin’s Creed’s female problems: Devs respond
12. Ubisoft, NIS America, and OUYA Support GaymerX
13. Award-winning game composer takes musicians union to task
14. FCC considers net neutrality rules, could impact video game industry
15. Study: Gamers are more educated, more social than the people who make fun of them
16. Guantanamo Prisoners Get to Play Video Games in a Recliner — While Being Force-Fed
17. Swedish Government’s ‘Democreativity’ Reveals First Round of Games
18. Why Would Google Want to Buy Video-Game Livestreaming Site Twitch?
19. Super Evil Megacorp Raises $15 Million to Prove Mobile Gaming Can Be Hardcore
20. Oculus signs exclusive content from Words With Friends creator
21. What Oculus Rift and virtual reality mean for sex, death, violence, and identity
23. Privacy Class Action Against Facebook Certified by BC Court
+ B.C.’s Privacy Act trumps jurisdiction selection clause
24. Texas Appeals Court Vacates Order Commanding Google To Hunt Down Third Party Content And Destroy It
25. Apple starts banning apps that reward video views and social sharing
26. Telecom giant Rogers got 175,000 info requests from government
+ Rogers’ Shocking Admission: It Does Not Track Disclosures of Subscriber Information to Authorities
27. Microsoft fights U.S. search warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server
28. Ars tests Internet surveillance—by spying on an NPR reporter
29. Vodafone Says Some Governments Have Direct Access to Eavesdrop
30. US Secret Service wants software to “detect sarcasm” on social media
31. Google will flag search results erased due to “right to be forgotten”
32. Yes, Verizon Is At Fault In Netflix Dispute; It’s Not Delivering What It Sold Customers
33. The best explanation of net neutrality and why it matters, ever, period.
34. Public Responds Negatively to FCC’s Net Neutrality Proposal
35. Google, the fight to forget, and the right to remember
36. Google’s university book scanning can move ahead without authors’ OK
+ USCA decision in Author’s Guild Inc. v. HathiTrust
37. The Samuelson Clinic releases “Is it in the Public Domain?” handbook
38. EU Court Of Justice: Just Viewing Stuff Online Isn’t Infringing On Copyright
39. Okkervil River Responds to Don Henley: Copyright Laws Kill Art
40. Should you have a right to sell your ebooks and digital music?
41. E.U. to Launch Formal Investigation Into Apple’s Irish Tax Deal
42. Cat Videos, Binge TV Watching Will Account for 84 Percent of Internet Traffic, Cisco Says
43. Netflix to Verizon: Nope, Your Congested Pipes Are Still Your Fault
44. Theater chain bans Google Glass
45. Your Personality Type, Defined by the Internet
46. The Forgotten Firsts: 10 Vintage Versions of Modern Technology
jon
News of the Week; June 4, 2014
1. Lawyers win big in Electronic Arts college sports settlement
2. Honda Jet Removed from ‘FlightGear’ After Trademark Complaint
3. Creator Of Flappy Bird Clone Claims His Duplication Is Covered By Trademark
4. Uplay’s Poor Performance Affecting ‘Watch Dogs’ and Other Games on Multiple Platforms
6. Riot Bans Two Pro ‘League of Legends’ Players
7. Gamers Bullying Jewish Students Online
8. Fired Community Manager Says He Was A Victim Of ‘Outrage Culture’
9. When geopolitics meets the game industry. A study of Arabic video games and what they teach us
10. Why did Fox and Murphy sign ‘non-disclosure agreements’ with 38 Studios?
11. Protestors Tell RI Lawmakers: Don’t Bail Out 38 Studios
12. EA Shutters Warhammer Online Developer Mythic
13. U.K. Rag Tries To Link Teen Suicides With Call of Duty
14. Glen Beck Criticizes ‘Watch Dogs’
15. Newzoo Report Predicts Global Gaming Revenue of Over $100 Billion by 2017
16. Take-Two CEO skeptical of Oculus’ broad appeal
17. The Next Eminem/Activision Deal: How Big Data Can Reinforce Gut Instincts
18. eSports viewing nearly doubled in 2013 as games-watching fanbase grew
19. Technology And Video Games Make Kids Think Differently About Old Questions
20. How to Dig Up a Landfill: The history, hurdles and local politics behind the search for E.T.
22. Why has the Canadian government given up on protecting our privacy?
23. Critics decry new Privacy Commissioner’s appointment
24. Snowden: NSA Revealed Only One Email, Shows NSA Lied Before
25. The Top 5 Claims That Defenders of the NSA Have to Stop Making to Remain Credible
26. The NSA Intercepts Millions of Images per Day for Facial Recognition
27. Anonymous No More: Sabu Walks
28. Google Starts Taking Removal Requests for EU ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Law
+ Google Got 12,000 Requests To Be ‘Forgotten’ In The Service’s First Day
+ Google inundated with “right to be forgotten” requests
29. A “right to be forgotten” in Canada?
30. U.S. patent troll bill unsuccessful – what is the situation in Canada?
32. FCC comment site breaks after comedian asks trolls to fight “fast lanes”
33. Is Some Tech Too Addictive?
34. Is Nvidia Playing Fair With Their New Development Tools?
35. Cryptocurrency!
36. Don’t Fear the Network: The Internet Is Changing the Way We Communicate for the Better
37. The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world
38. He Said, He Said: the Comcast-Netflix Edition
39. Netflix Loves Big Data, But Won’t Use It To Make TV Shows
40. In a Reversal, Kickstarter Largely Ditches Rules and Human Moderation Requirements
41. Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood: Clash of the Corporate Cultures
42. Data Vs. Creativity: The Content Marketer’s False Choice
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