League of Legends Publisher Riot Games Stands up Against SOPA, Representitive Who Plays LoL Comes Out of the Woodwork

Posted by | January 11, 2012

league-of-legendsBig and bright in the news today is that the Riot Games, the publisher of the extremely popular MMO, Riot Games, came out to the US political arena as being squarely dead-set against the Internet censorship bills SOPA and PROTECT-IP. They’ve even sent a representative attorney to Reddit to solicity the community there about how they should go about proceeding with their advocacy against these bills…

But it gets better!

In the very thread that they published about their opposition to the bills, a United States Congressman, Representative Jared Polis of Colorado, posted a comment explaining his position on SOPA

“As a member of the League of Legends community (partial to Anivia and Maokai),” Rep Polis writes, “and as someone who made his …

Keep reading »

Comment

Video games still suffer from copyright culture rot

Posted by | December 2, 2009

This on the heels of a discussion with our kaywngstiad about how we would both pirate our own already owned content (DVDs) in a form we could actually access if our computers continued to keep telling us we cannot play them. The video game community still suffers under stupid Digital Rights Management mechanisms which are defective by design and only serve to drive otherwise honest players away from honestly buying and playing games.

Who the hell wants content that cannot be accessed? If you want me to pay $50 for a game, it better be playable as many places as I want. Every fewer place lowers its value for me. A game I can only play on one machine ever is worth 1/10th as much. Sure, I’ll buy it for $5. Otherwise, why should I bother?

Using Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture as quasi-

…

Keep reading »

Comment