Since when is fair use something we must beg for on a triennial basis? I guess the answer is since 1998 when the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was signed into law. This law not only extended copyright terms by an additional 20 years, it created a section of law that basically told the public that we do not own the media and computing devices we buy. No, the companies that produced that media and those computing devices own it as long as those companies put DRM on the products to lock out uses they don’t approve of.
Month: October 2015
Representative Steve Russell is back with his third Waste Watch report, which now looks to be coming out on a quarterly basis. In this report, Rep. Russell takes aim at a National Endowment for the Humanities study on toxicity in online video game communities and a NEH grant to continue funding a game based on Thoreau’s book Walden, a game that Senator Coburn panned in his 2012 Wastebook report.
On this week’s show (episode 164) hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight discuss the latest GamePolitics poll (“How should Nintendo have handled the risqué…
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Last week, I learned that Valve has done two very odd things in Steam when it comes to games with Linux support. The first move is that Valve has switched out the Linux Tux icon with its own Steam OS icon. The second is that it is removing the SteamOS icon from any games that claim Linux support but don’t work out of the box on SteamOS. These are troubling moves for those of us who like to game on Linux.
On the latest episode of Super Podcast Action Committee (163) hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight discuss how Sega’s Yakuza games could be big…
Leave a CommentOn this week’s show (episode 161) hosts Andrew Eisen gives his first impressions of MidBoss Games’ Read Only Memories (1:45) and explains why he spent…
Leave a CommentOn this week’s show (episode 161) hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight discuss the latest GamePolitics poll (“Should Twitch allow streaming adult games?” –…
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