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Balance the Federal Budget with Budget Hero

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2008-05-21 07:29:22 by Jean Snow in Wired: Game|Life
...federal budget, letting you prove just how bad (or not) the U.S. government is handling things The flash-based game is produced by American Public Media, and tries to give players a better understanding of how the federal budget works and what is required to keep it running smoothly Budget Hero ] lets people explore the major issues of the...
 
Tags: federal budget, american public media, budget hero, social game website, game, congressional budget office, brad robideau, issues, amazon founder invests
 
 
 
 
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Kill Ten Rats: TOS Violation as Federal Crime

2008-05-17 09:55:41 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...federal felony conspiracy charge by arguing that she did this in concert with others to obtain information and to further tortious conduct intentional infliction of emotional distress violating the felony provisions of 18 U.S.C. 1030(a)(2 In other words, logging on while violating the TOS is the same thing as hacking the servers. Further bad...
 
Tags: tos, theory, governments theory, felony, felony provisions, myspaces terms, abusive, inflict emotional damage, legal theory
 
 
 
 
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An end to Madden monopoly madness? EA asks federal court to dismiss lawsuit

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2008-08-26 18:05:00 by Samit Sarkar in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
...federal court yesterday to have the suit thrown out on these grounds: It is not illegalunder any theoryfor EA to bid on exclusive licenses that intellectual property owners choose to offer. Exclusive intellectual property licenses are commonplace, and widely accepted in commerce and under the law as one legitimate way for an intellectual...
 
Tags: court, lawsuit, exclusivity agreement, corporations exclusivity agreement, espn nfl 2k5, nfl, monopoly, federal court yesterday, law
 
 
 
 
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An end to Madden monopoly madness? EA asks federal court to dismiss lawsuit

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2008-08-26 18:05:00 by Samit Sarkar in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
...federal court yesterday to have the suit thrown out on these grounds: It is not illegalunder any theoryfor EA to bid on exclusive licenses that intellectual property owners choose to offer. Exclusive intellectual property licenses are commonplace, and widely accepted in commerce and under the law as one legitimate way for an intellectual...
 
Tags: court, lawsuit, exclusivity agreement, corporations exclusivity agreement, espn nfl 2k5, nfl, monopoly, federal court yesterday, law
 
 
 
 
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Federal court blocks Minnesota games fines law

2008-03-18 07:27:52 by patlike in videogaming247
 
...federal appeals court has upheld a 2006 rejection to a Minnesota law restricting minors access to violent games. Under the proposed legislation, minors younger than 17 caught buying or renting video games rated M for mature or AO for adults-only would have faced a $25 fine The judge blocking the law cited constitutional concerns and a paucity...
 
Tags: video games, minors, minors access, federal appeals court, minnesota law, violent games, rejection, adults-only, availability
 
 
 
 
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Federal Trade Commission Digging Deeper into EAs T2 Takeover Bid

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2008-04-17 13:58:55 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a second request for data concerning EAs proposed hostile acquisition of Grand Theft Auto publisher Take Two Interactive The type of information sought by the FTC is not specified Thegovernment inquiry reminds us that Newsweeks NGai Croal reported recently the FTC might have anti-trust (i.e.,...
 
Tags: sports, sports competition, sports games, federal trade commission, sports revenue, ftc, monopoly, gravy, price
 
 
 
 
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German Federal Cartel gives the OK for Take-Two/EA mergeryou knowif that were to happen

2008-04-25 22:39:47 by RawmeatCowboy in GoNintendo
 
...Federal Cartel Office that the proposed transaction had been cleared Seems a bit silly to clear a merger that Take-Two keeps saying wont happen. I think Take-Two has made it extremely clear that they want no part of an EA merger Link
 
Tags: take-two, german competition authorities, merger, pre-merger, purchaser, bit silly, hsr act, link, doj
 
 
 
 
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GamePolitics speaks with federal game bill sponsor, ESA deems bill unconstitutional

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2008-05-10 00:00:00 by Alexander Sliwinski in Joystiq
 
...federal law forcing retailers to check IDs before selling M- and AO-rated games. One of the better moments in the interview is when GP asks Rep. Terry what game he was talking about when he stated there are titles players could score point for virtual rape . Terry responded, "That's a good question. I don't know of any [specific games]...
 
Tags: games, specific games offhand, esa, lee terry, terry, video games, bill, esa shares, rape
 
 
 
 
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Your Turn: Nanny state

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2008-11-17 19:47:12 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...Federal Government's plan to filter content on the internet Within 24 hours last week, two Your Say blogs popped into my email box on the subject, including the following piece from popular Screen Play contributor Misty, a 21-year-old Arts student majoring in Japanese Misty, whose hobbies include rock music, games, anime and cooking, lives...
 
Tags: introduce mandatory internet, mandatory internet, mandatory internet censorship, mandatory, internet, internet access, average internet speeds, internet user, internet performance
 
 
 
 
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Your Turn: Censor this!

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2008-11-18 00:51:33 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...Federal Government's planned introduction of an Australia-wide internet filter and the fact that they are misleading the public and ignoring all opposition to it by both experts and the community Censorship of any kind is something I personally don't agree with. While I may not like the views of some or the particular fetishes of others, I...