EA Bans Myanmar Players From Origin, No Multiplayer Service Due To Embargo

Oct 31, 2016 07:30 am UTC| Technology Law

A recent thread on Reddit revealed that Myanmar was recently blacklisted by EA, thus banning its players from accessing the publishers Origin service. This effectively blocked players from using the multiplayer modes of...

US Election Series

In getting 'new' Clinton emails, did the FBI violate the Constitution?

Oct 31, 2016 02:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics

FBI Director James Comeys Oct. 28 bombshell letter to Congress which has the potential to affect the presidential election may be based on illegally obtained emails. In his letter, Comey says the FBI has learned of...

Why eyewitnesses give false evidence – and how we can stop them

Oct 30, 2016 23:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

In October 2004, a rumour of a gang fight circulated on an east London estate and a large crowd of around 50 young people gathered to take part. During the melee, one youth received a fatal blow from a sharp object and the...

FCC Issued Regulations Preventing Carriers From Selling Private User Information

Oct 28, 2016 10:05 am UTC| Technology Law

Recently, news came out that ATT was spying on its users and selling that information to government agencies in exchange for millions of dollars from taxpayer money. In response, the Federal Communications Commission...

Israel, where prostitution is legal, debates criminalising the men who pay for sex

Oct 28, 2016 08:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

How should the selling of sex be treated? What should law do about it, if anything? What kind of links are there between prostitution and sex trafficking? Such questions ignite vigorous controversies around the world, and...

Millions more voters legalizing marijuana won't clear up regulatory haze

Oct 28, 2016 07:46 am UTC| Law

Congress continues to resist decriminalizing marijuana even as a popular crusade to legalize its use state by state may soon mean almost a quarter of Americans can smoke up at will, not including the many more who can use...

The problems with AT&T's bid for Time Warner

Oct 27, 2016 05:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it. So it is with a sense of familiarity that we greet ATTs proposed acquisition of Time Warner. In early 2000, AOL acquired Time Warner for US$164 billion....