The article by Shannon P. Duffy appeasing in Law.com’s
3rd Circuit Upholds FCC’s Deregulation of High-Speed Internet Access succumbs to the regulation/de-regulation doublespeak pressed by the Internet regulators. I would have hoped a law rag would have been sharp enough to avoid such gullibility.
This is not at all a ruling in favor of deregulation. To […]
My jaw dropped open when I read the press release of the Parents Television Council, PTC Applauds Gov. Schwarzenegger for Appealing Violent Video Game Ruling, in which the PTC President suggests, by implication, that parents need not be involved in their children’s decisions to purchase video games, so long as they are not rated M […]
Culver City is offering public wi-fi access to the Internet with two big caveats: It’s not really the Internet, and to use it you agree to give up your civil rights.
That’s right. First, they offer Internet access, but you must agree to “limited” Internet access. And they don’t mean limited hours of the […]
“81% of a random sample of Mature-rated video games included content that was not noted on the game box.” So declares the press release crowing about findings of a study led by Associate Professor Kimberly Thompson of the Kids Risk Project at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). ”Study Finds M-Rated Video Games Contain […]
For the last several years, state and federal government executives and lawmakers have assumed they can garner more votes by cow-towing to a few self-described “family” organizations and demanding direct or indirect censorship of movies, music and video games. At the federal level, the executive and legislative branches urged the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) […]
The National Institute on Media and the Family issued its Tenth Annual MediaWise Video Game Report Card. The Report begins with quite a bit of the same foolishness that has characterized past endeavors, as it addresses a “problem” that can only exist in problem families.
They have for years complained about the Entertainment Software Ratings […]
Thanks to a major flaw in our patent system, Yale University is, as reported in the Yale Daily News, is weighing whether to pay Acacia Research Corporation an annual sum to make a questionable patent claim over streaming technology go away, or pay lawyers possibly more to prove that Acacia’s claim is baseless.
Acacia has […]
LiveJournal reports the good news that a law-breaking lawyer has been kicked off of a case (Jack Thompson Thrown off Alabama Case by Judge). Attorney Jack Thompson has abused his own freedom of speech in seeking to abridge the freedom of speech of buyers and sellers of a popular video game. Attorneys ordinarily […]