MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY
- Cable Industry Embarrassed By The Word ‘Cable,’ Stops Using It
- FCC has to pay journalist $43,000 after hiding net neutrality records
- FCC (Read: Taxpayers) Forced To Pay Journalist’s Legal Bills After Tap Dancing Around FOIA Requests
- T-Mobile’s $50 home Internet service has no data cap, but plenty of limits
- AT&T’s “5G E” is actually slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds
- Another Study Finds Verizon’s 5G Is Barely Available, Not Scaleable
- Current Telecom Developments
- Bill To Restore Net Neutrality Moves Forward, And The Public Is Still Angry
- The regulators are coming: New EU online Platforms Regulation
- Five Minutes On… The EU Electronic Communications Code
- Comcast’s New Rented Streaming Box Is A Flimsy Attempt To Remain Relevant
DIGITAL
- Muslim Advocacy Group Files Suit Against YouTube, Facebook For Hosting Christchurch Shooting Videos
- Microsoft calls for ‘industrywide’ moderation plan after New Zealand shooting: The company’s president calls for more coordination
- New Zealand Censors Declare Christchurch Shooting Footage Illegal; Start Rounding Up Violators
- Brutal Startup Is Using Eye Tracking to Force You to Watch Ads: It’s basically like “A Clockwork Orange.”
- Social media platforms under increasing pressure to protect users from harm
- Facebook and Instagram Finally Ban White Nationalism and White Separatism
- Facebook’s new rules come down against white nationalism, separatism
- Will Facebook’s New Ban On White Nationalist Content Work?
- Facebook Settles Claims Alleging Discriminatory Ad Targeting
- Vice Media to Pay $1.9 Million to Settle Pay Discrimination Case
- Music labels sue Charter, complain that high Internet speeds fuel piracy
- RIAA Continues Its Legal War To Turn ISPs Into The Copyright Police: Sues Charter Communications
- The Latest Pro-PewDiePie Hackers Locked Users’ Files Until They Subscribed
- New Virus Steals Your Files Until PewDiePie Gets 100M Subscribers: Another ransomware variant encrypts your files unless you subscribe to PewDiePie – but even if you do, it deletes them anyway.
- PewDiePie fans keep making junk ransomware: Please, YouTube! Just hide PewDiePie and T-Series’ followers count and put this competition to bed.
- How Microsoft found a Huawei driver that opened systems to attack
- New Huawei phone has a 5x optical zoom, thanks to a periscope lens
- US Is Forcing A Chinese Firm To Sell Gay Dating App Grindr
- HMD admits the Nokia 7 Plus was sending personal data to China
- How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments
- HTML email reborn, as Google brings AMP to your inbox
- Google regrets ‘minor glitch’ that sent Ghanaian currency plummeting
- U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Search Google Settlement Agreement for Fairness
- SCOTUS Remands Google Case to the Ninth Circuit for Spokeo Standing Analysis
- Tenth Lawsuit Against Social Media Providers for “Materially Supporting Terrorists” Fails–Sinclair v. Twitter (Eric Goldman)
- The echo of American Fair Use and of its boundaries, in the EU and Italian System. A comparative analysis in the wake of the Fox News victory over TVEyes
- Nevada Judge Says Online News Publications Aren’t Protected By The State’s Journalist Shield Law
- Talking Cat App Should Keep Quiet on Advertising, CARU Recommends
- A ‘Dark Day’: Copyright Law That Threatens the Internet as We Know It Passes Final EU Vote
- EU parliament passes controversial copyright overhaul [Updated]
- EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes
- The European Parliament has voted in favour of Article 13: Critics argued that Article 13, and related legislation passed today by MEPs, risked infringing on freedom of speech
- Article 13 – MEME Law is coming…
- “Memes banned” – the European Parliament votes in the EU Copyright Directive including controversial Articles 11 and 13
- EU Parliament Passes Controversial “Meme Ban”: It’s a “dark day for internet freedom.”
- Swedish MEPs Announce Support For Article 13, Demonstrate Near Total Ignorance Of What It Actually Entails
- New Report: Germany Caved To France On Copyright In A Deal For Russian Gas
- Enough MEPs Say They Mistakenly Voted For Articles 11 & 13 That The Vote Should Have Flipped; EU Parliament Says Too Bad
- Tell The EU Not To Wreck The Internet
- A Century Ago We Killed The Radio Commons; Don’t Let The EU Do That To The Internet
- EU Commission Refuses To Explain Why It Published Medium Article Mocking The Public’s Concerns Over Article 13
- EU Internet Companies Warn EU Parliament Not To Vote For Articles 11 & 13; Say They’ll Hand The Internet To Google
- MEPs Realizing How Bad Article 13 Could Be, Begin To Back Away From EU Copyright Directive
- Independent Musician Dan Bull’s New Song, Robocopyright, Warns Of The Dangers Of Article 13
- Sites Warn EU Users Of Just How Bad Article 13 Will Be
- Huge Protests Across Europe Protest Article 13; Politician Lies And Claims They Were Paid To Be There
- Supporters Of Article 13, After Denying It’s About Filters, Now Say It’s About Regulating Filters Which They Admit Don’t Work
- After EU Copyright Reform Passes, Susan Wojcicki Says “This Is The Beginning” Of YouTube’s Fight
- Most Advertisers Have Returned To YouTube After Comments Scandal, Google Exec Says
- YouTube Usage Comprises 37% Of All Mobile Web Traffic, Study Finds
- YouTube Facing Lawsuit That Alleges Toy Unboxing Videos Are “Abusive Advertising Practices” Aimed At Children
- YouTube Disabled Comments On Thousands Of Creators’ Channels To Prevent Child Predation. Tech Startup Respondology Thinks It Has A Solution.
- YouTube Shutters ‘Fantastic Adventures’ Channel After Proprietor’s Arrest For Child Abuse
- YouTube Millionaires: AR12Gaming Started Sharing His Love For Racecar Games On YouTube In 2012. Now, His Company Sponsors Real-Life Racers.
- How YouTube is changing toys
- YouTube cancels two original series but denies moving away from original content
- YouTube Content Head Susanne Daniels Denies Eyeing Exit Amid High-End Series Cancellations
- Kim Kardashian’s Daughter North West Entering YouTube Fray In Collab With JoJo Siwa
- Influencers Allegedly Run Roughshod Over FTC Warnings
- Influencer Law 101: influencer exclusivity
- Law School Exam Part 5: Am I An Influencer?
- #InfluencerMarketing: What advertisers need to know about disclosure
- Lil Miquela, Shudu, Bermuda and Sophia The Robot: CGI and Robot IT Girls Who Will Become the Influencers of the Future
- Studio71 Launches Weekly Reaction Series With Tal Fishman, Caylus Cunningham On ‘Caffeine’
- Ryan ToysReview’s Nickelodeon Series To Premiere On April 19
- YouTube’s FaZe Clan Inks Sponsorship, Content Pact With Automaker Nissan
- Liza Koshy Will Return To Her YouTube Channel After Yearlong Absence
- Liza Koshy Returns To YouTube With A Glitzy Musical For Her Dollar Store Shenanigans
- Creators Going Pro: Elle Mills’ YouTube Channel Is Becoming A Diary About The Raw, Vulnerable Parts Of Her Life
- Priyanka Chopra Launches YouTube-Funded Inspirational Special ‘If I Could Tell You Just One Thing’
- Admitted Meme Thief F-Jerry Sued for Allegedly Stealing a Meme
- Popular Meme Account Sued For Copyright Infringement and Other Claims
- Expansion of the Madrid System
- Ruling in Emoji Beach Ball IP Case Left Me Confused: Kangaroo v. Amazon (Eric Goldman)
- March Madness! Court Dismisses Lawsuit Over Massive Cyberattack After Basketball Game Loss–Higgins v. Kentucky Sports Radio (Eric Goldman)
- Amazon Will Soon Launch Mobile Ads In Search Results
- To rival Amazon, UPS enters healthcare—with doorstep nurse delivery
- StyleHaul Notifies Employees Of Layoffs, Shutdown Of U.S. Operations (Exclusive)
- Here’s Why Netflix Launched ‘Love, Death & Robots’ With A Different Episode Order For Certain Users
- Netflix Reaches Tipping Point As Originals Now Outpace Acquired Titles – Study
- Netflix Asks Court To Dismiss Chooseco’s Lawsuit For All The Obvious Reasons
- Here’s How Apple’s Spending Its Massive $1 Billion Original Content Budget Ahead Of Streaming Service Launch
- Here’s the Full Rundown on Apple TV and the New Apple TV+
- Apple finally enters TV streaming space with new Apple TV+ service
- Here’s all the TV+ shows Apple flew out celebrities for
- Apple’s New Genre Shows Are Still Mysterious, But Here’s What We Learned Today
- Apple’s Streaming Service Apple TV+ To Launch This Fall, Will Have Zero Third-Party Content — But Plenty Of Add-Ons
- Liveblog: Apple unveils its TV service and more at the March 25 “It’s show time” event
- Apple promises its new credit card is a privacy-protecting beast
- Apple debuts its own credit card with a physical version to complement the app
- The Apple Card Is Great at Privacy but Mediocre Overall
- Everything that’s happening with Apple’s News+ subscription service
- Apple News+: A newsstand of 300 glossy magazines for $9.99/month
- Apple Used Its Oprah Moment to Pull One Over on Us
- Apple Designates Amazon As an Authorized Reseller of Apple – Highlighting the Importance of Online Sales Control for Even the World’s Most Powerful Brand
- Clippy briefly resurrected as Teams add-on, brutally taken down by brand police
- Microsoft ships antivirus for macOS as Windows Defender becomes Microsoft Defender
- Microsoft exec bans company from pulling any dumb April Fools’ pranks
- Streaming Powers U.S. Latin Music Market to 18% Growth
- eMarketer claims Spotify US will overtake Pandora by 2021
- AI-music startup Endel to release albums through Warner Music
- A Survey Of The EU’s AI Ecosystem
- Expert views on the frontiers of AI and conflict
- How to develop a successful IP strategy for AI
- Can AI Be A Fair Judge In Court? Estonia Thinks So
- How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
- Artificial Intelligence: A Potential Cybersecurity Safeguard or Viable Threat to the Healthcare Industry?
- Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer
- Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program
- Study shows complexity and uncertainty of IoT regulation in Europe
- New York City Apartment Residents Sue Landlord Over New Smart Locks [Updated]
- US computer science grads outperforming those in other key nations
- Rethinking the rights of children for the internet age
- Disruptive Developments @20EssexStreet: What is the difference between a cryptocurrency trading platform and a kitchen blender?
- What’s in a (User)Name?
- Freetown Man Arrested for Keeping Flat-Screen TV Delivered to Him by Accident With Amazon Order
- This Truck Spilled 40,000 Pounds of Printer Ink In a Crash That Probably Cost a Gazillion Dollars
- Man Steals $122 Million From Google And Facebook By Just Asking Them For Money
- Digital Business in Canada
- Internet Platform Governance, Part 1: What’s the Problem?
- Cloud computing in the United States
- Federal Prosecutors Recommend Paul Hansmeier Spend The Next 12 Years In Prison
CREATIVITY
- Photographer loses lawsuit over use of her photo in political mailer
- $35 billion in research funding “now at stake” after Trump executive order
- New waves in the battle against piracy of sports rights
- Copyright Ownership DJ Claim Must Plead Disputed Ownership
- What do Bruce Springsteen and Venus and Serena Williams all have in common?
- Counterfeiting and the importance of brand protection in beauty
- Fashion and cultural expressions
- Dutch Golden Age painting returned to heirs of Nazi Spoliation victims
- Intellectual Property Law Year in Review – March 2019
SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
- Facebook apps logged users’ passwords in plaintext, because why not
- Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text
- Facebook Screws Up Again
- Vigilant And Its Customers Are Lying About ICE’s Access To Plate Records
- Thomas Goolnik Again Convinces Google To Forget Our Story About Thomas Goolnik Getting Google To Forget Our Story About Thomas Goolnik
- Illinois Appeals Court Says Fifth Amendment Protections Apply To Cellphone Passwords
- California and European Privacy FAQs: Does the GDPR require that a company obtain consent from a website user before placing cookies on its browser?
- The privacy risks of unchecked facial-recognition technology
- The Government Is Using the Most Vulnerable People to Test Facial Recognition Software
- Having Privacy in Public: Limits to Unwanted Surveillance in Public Spaces
- Hijacked ASUS software updates installed backdoor on at least 0.5 million PCs
- Asus Goes Mute As Hackers Covertly Install Backdoors Using Company Software Update
- Reckless VII: Wife of Journalist Slain in Cartel-Linked Killing Targeted with NSO Group’s Spyware
- Critical flaw lets hackers control lifesaving devices implanted inside patients
- A rogue’s gallery of bad actors is exploiting that critical WinRAR flaw
- Telegram Goes Nuclear With New Message Deletion Feature
- Preparing for Compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act
- Casino Screwup Royale: A tale of “ethical hacking” gone awry
GAMES
- Blog: How games software and hardware could top $200 billion by 2023
- Opinion: After Christchurch – What we owe our game communities
- “If we make room for them, then there is no room for anyone else”: IGF Award host Meg Jayanth calls for devs to reject fascists, demand better treatment for themselves and their colleagues
- #1ReasonToBe: “Inclusivity is a battle we can win”: Rami Ismail’s final stint hosting the panel shares the stories of a refugee turns games developer, an Egyptian woman who refused to let a visa rejection silence her, and more
- Overwatch saw 40% less disruptive behavior with the endorsement system
- PUBG Corp and NetEase settle Battlegrounds lawsuit
- PUBG Corp, NetEase settle copyright lawsuit: After suit alleging Knives Out, Rules of Survival copied PUBG and countersuit against “shameless attempt” at genre monopoly, companies now dismissing cases
- Madden Litigation Sputters Out With Settlement
- EA Lays Off 350 People In Marketing, Publishing, And More
- EA lays off 350 staff in marketing, publishing, and operations
- EA closes Japan and Russia offices amid mass layoffs
- EA lays off 350 amid major organizational changes: Company reorganizing marketing, publishing, operations teams, decreases presence in Japan and Russia
- Electronic Arts closes Japan office as part of mass layoffs: Russian division also appears to be shuttering with operations moving to larger, regional office
- EA signs publishing deal with Vicarious Visions founders
- Sega removing actor from Western version of Judgmentafter drug scandal
- Judgment has sold through 97% of stock following controversy
- “Hard Rock” Hamilton Says Microsoft Can’t Leave Gears of War Lawsuit
- Judgement sales surge following voice actor drug charge controversy: There was “no correct way to deal with the situation,” says Sega chief creative officer
- Labor organizers share insight and tips on unionizing the game industry
- Roblox on creating kinder communities
- Game source code is a teaching tool, not a trade secret, argues VGHF founder
- Apple Finally Jumps Into Games with Subscription Service Featuring 100+ Exclusives
- Apple announces its own game subscription service, Apple Arcade
- Apple unveils Apple Arcade subscription service for iOS, Mac, Apple TV games
- Apple Arcade Games Subscription Service Announced
- Apple reveals game subscription service Apple Arcade: Program to launch this fall with focus on new, premium titles
- KO_OP, ustwo games announce Apple Arcade exclusives
- Opinion: A closer look at the strategy behind Apple Arcade
- Google Stadia Streaming Platform Launch, Game, And Feature Details Revealed
- Google Exec On Stadia’s Internet Speed Requirements
- Hands-On With Google Stadia
- Google Claims Stadia Is More Powerful Than PS4 And Xbox One Combined – GDC 2019
- Google’s Stadia Could Take Video Games Out of Your Hands: The new streaming service could make owning a video game a thing of the past
- In Wake Of Google Stadia, Reports Suggest Walmart Is Exploring A Game Streaming Service
- Report: Walmart is looking to enter the game streaming business
- Walmart exploring its own game streaming service – Report: Retail giant began talking to developers and publishers about its plans earlier this year
- Phil Spencer Reportedly Says Stadia Announcement Had ‘No Big Surprises’, Says Xbox Will ‘Go Big’ At E3
- Xbox will reportedly “go big” on streaming at E3 2019: Internal email from Phil Spencer says Google Stadia is a “validation” and notes “no big surprises” in Google reveal
- Report: Microsoft’s disc-less Xbox One S gets name and launch date
- Microsoft unveils new indie game showcase calledID@Xbox Game Pass
- Another World designer Eric Chahi sets up indie studio Pixel Reef
- Blog: My full time indie developer life – Year 2
- Blog: The colonial, non-colonial, and decolonial in video games
- All the Game Streaming Services Google Stadia Is Up Against
- Would a Google Stadia subscription service be bad news for the industry?: Analysts discuss Stadia’s potential to drive “a major downward trend” on prices, and what subscriptions mean for developers and diversity of games
- Google Stadia will support the Xbox Adaptive Controller: Microsoft’s accessible device included among third-party controllers Google’s platform will support
- Google tries to reassure gamers about Stadia speed and latency concerns
- How id Software went from skeptical to excited about Google Stadia streaming
- Slow Broadband, Usage Caps Could Mar Google Stadia’s Game Streaming Ambitions
- Google Stadia can succeed if it follows Fortnite’s footsteps | Opinion
- Nav promoted his new album in Fortnite stream with Ninja
- In-venue streaming and broadcasting of live sporting events – key legal issues for sports clubs and leagues
- Valve stays the course despite intensifying competition
- Valve Software dreams of analyzing your brainwaves to tailor in-game rewards: “We can figure out what kinds of rewards you like, and the kinds you don’t.”
- Valve is pushing new social features for Steam later this year
- Standalone Vive Focus Plus will cost $799 when it arrives in April
- Valve Psychologist: Brain-computer Interfaces Are Coming & Could Be Built into VR Headsets
- PlayStation VR headset sales have topped 4.2 million
- ‘No Man’s Sky’ is Getting Full VR Support for PSVR, Rift, and Vive
- Sony Announces 4.2 Million PlayStation VR Units Sold
- Putting Sony’s 4.2 million PSVR sales in context
- Sony is pulling digital PS4 games from sale at GameStop, other retailers
- Sony stops selling digital game codes at physical retailers
- Sony pulls full game download codes from all stores: PlayStation confirms to GamesIndustry.biz new strategy starts April 1, cards for DLC and virtual currency will still be available
- Devil May Cry 5 shipped 2m units in two weeks
- Devil May Cry 5 has sold 2 million copies in first two weeks
- 6 years in, Warframe nears 50 million lifetime players
- Fallout 76 and a handful of upcoming Bethesda titles now headed for Steam
- Metro Exodus on Epic Store outsells its predecessor on Steam — but what does that tell us?: “It’s about the game, and not the store you sell on,” suggests Epic
- Observation will be an Epic Games Store exclusive, Steam page pulled
- Epic offers support for third-party key sales — but not for exclusives
- Sweeney commits to human moderators & quality filters for Epic’s Games Store
- Epic Games Store is making the industry better but “gamers don’t see that”: CEO Tim Sweeney addresses backlash against exclusivity deals, promises human curation to block “shock controversy games” like Rape Day
- Report: Nintendo Is Releasing Two New Switch Models
- Report: Nintendo planning two new Switch models
- Nintendo Allegedly Set To Release Two New Switch Models
- Report: Nintendo to release two new Switch models in 2019
- Stardew Valley is the best-selling indie game on Nintendo Switch
- Dead Cells has passed 1 million sales, and Switch leads the way on consoles
- Nintendo’s Labo VR Kit Is Its Wildest Cardboard Adventure Yet
- This Might Be the Least Fun Switch Accessory
- Oculus Founder: Rift S Suitable for Only About 70% of Population Due to IPD
- eSports and Copyright between choreographies and UGC
- GameStop moving into esports with new events venue
- GameStop partners with three esports organisations: Games retailer signs deals with Houston Outlaws, Envy Gaming, and OpTic Gaming
- Comcast plans to build a $50 million esports arena in Philadelphia
- SuperData: Apex Legends’ $92m launch month the best ever for a free-to-play game
- Mobile strength pushed Tencent past $19bn games revenue in 2018
- WarDucks raises $3.8 million to expand studio and create location-based AR game
- WarDucks raises €3.3 million for location-based AR mobile game
- I played 11 Assassin’s Creed games in 11 years, and Odyssey made them all worth it
- UK Charts: Sekiro Shadows Die Twice is the seventh new No.1 of the year – Activision and From Software title narrowly beats The Division 2
- Kabam acquires Montreal-based mobile studio Riposte Games & Co
- GAME revenue dips but profits jump on ‘relentless’ cost savings
- Indies clean up at GDC Awards 2019: God of War takes home yet another Game of the Year gong, and Return of the Obra Dinn wins $33,000 in IGF prizes
- GDC 2019 attendance sets new record at 29,000
- GDC celebrates record-breaking attendance and locks in 2020 dates!
- Blog: The best slides I saw at GDC 2019
- GDC 2019, as told through livetweets
- Video Game Deep Cuts: The Game Developers Conference Aftermath
- A dev trained robots to generate “garbage” slot machine games—and made $50K
- Intel and Spirit AI are working on machine learning-powered voice chat moderation
- Video: Systemic AI design in Just Cause 3
- Get a job: DeepMind is hiring a Games Designer
- Deep Dive: Flexiscope, the play-time aware dungeon generator in Book of Demons
- Don’t Miss: Devs weigh in on the best ways to write and design characters
- Relinquishing Control: Remedy’s paradigm shift – Game director on leaving behind the tightly controlled experiences of Alan Wake and Quantum Break for, “a world that can support many stories, not just one story”
- Daedalic: “If we do this right, no one else will be able to make a Gollum game” – CEO discusses plans for the iconic character, who will star in the first of many Lord of the Rings games
- Critical Consensus: Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 – Critics lament the lack of political heft in its story, but The Division 2 gets much right that BioWare’s Anthem got wrong
- ‘Buddy pass’ will let Wolfenstein: Youngblood players share with friends
- Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt spent heavily on R&D in 2018
- Boyfriend Dungeon dev examines why game fashion sucks, and what to do about it
- First-person digger: Stanley Black & Decker’s game controller for excavators
- The next generation starts with you | Opinion: Game Dragons’ Philip Oliver offers advice on how to better work with academia to improve the quality of graduates
- Twitch Launches ‘Squad Stream’ Feature, Enabling Four-Person Multiplay
- Ninja Is Getting His Face On A Red Bull Can
- Building a ‘homebrew’ video game console
- Niantic announces second Pokémon GO Earth Day event
- Obituary: Take-Two founder Ryan Brant has passed away
- Take-Two founder Ryan Brant dies: Publisher expresses condolences, gratitude to Brant for his vision and contributions
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