ICANN’s rulership of the internet is once again being brought up for redecision. In a nutshell
Currently, those domains are under the control of ICANN, which is in turn empowered to administer the directories under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with National Telecommuncations and Information Administration, a branch of of the United States Department of […]

Check me if I’m wrong here.  When you release a game, and it gets rated by some standards body to suggest who should or shouldn’t play it, that effectively says who’s hands the game should go in, right?
It’s then the responsibility of parents, kids, game owners, etc. to make sure that it gets carried out.
Now, […]

Ever see that nifty law that states you can’t sell someone a Bill of Sales? I can’t recall which one it is right now (if you’re aware, please share it). I’m assuming there might be laws against selling someone a document stating you’ve sold them nothing in other places, too.
Anyway. How’s this relate […]

Now, this is just a suggestion. But I think Patricia Vance, president of the ESRB needs some sort of “persuasion device” to deal with congress.  Either that or we need to replace her with someone with the IQ of a turnip that won’t actually take their job seriously, but will stoicly dissemble to the congress […]

While I’ll wholeheartedly agree that there are some games which are far to violent for my viewing pleasure I won’t go so refer to them as “speech”.
They’re not.
Nor will I gladly watch Congress critters dictate morals.  I’m perfectly capable of not buying a game on my own, without any regulation, thank  you very much.
But apparently […]

The RIAA is claiming victory on it’s running war with it’s own customers.  They’ve finally vanquished the beast of possible purchasers, and with CD sales declining feel they’ve won.
I’ve got to say, I’m sure all the label artists now making less money have to feel vindicated that they’ve paid for this.  Nothing like paying someone […]

DRM sucks. Not going to qualify that one, just state it.
But if you’re curious as to why DRM sucks, why not give YALB a quick look and read their excellent extrapolation of what’ll happen in a DRM’d future.
Seriously. Cars with region encoding… fun stuff. Check it out.
Once Upon a Time, in DRM […]

DC Parris has once again assumed the podium to give us his insightful look into Net Neutraility.
DC makes an excellent argument to oppose a law currently being brought before the Congress.  It would affect all of our abilities to host content and let bandwith providers charge an additional tax on internet traffic at every leg […]

Looks like America isn’t the only country fighting a turf war over civil liberties. Over in the UK they’re passing a law to give authorities the ability to force the disclosure of encryption keys.
Two problems there. How do you prove someone has an encryption key? Because they’ve got encrypted data? Hardly a […]

Looks like AllofMP3 (popular, legal Russian music download site) suffered some downtime over the weekend.  It’s come back up now, but there’s rumors floating of a Russian crackdown on anything the IP markets don’t like.  Civilizing or somesuch, I’m sure.
At any rate, El Reg is covering the story and promises to update once they’ve got […]