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Less Than One Week To Back Our Kickstarter For The CIA's Card Game; Also...

So, we’re now less than a week away from the close of our Kickstarter campaign for our version of the CIA’s recently declassified training card game, which we’ve dubbed: CIA: Collect It All. We’ve...

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Journalist Barrett Brown Kickstarting Project To Engage In The Same...

It’s not entirely clear what motivations lie behind Barrett Brown’s Kickstarter project, but you have to imagine it has to partially be an extended middle finger to the DOJ. Journalist Barrett Brown...

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The Gaming Platform Wars Are Beginning To Screw Up Crowdfunding Games

We’ve talked a great deal of late about Epic Games’ kicking off a PC gaming platform war with Steam through its own Epic Store. What the whole thing comes down to is that the Epic Store offers game...

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New Mexico City Starts Crowdfunding Effort To Pay For Its Stupid Defense Of...

Is it good for governments to supplement their normal crowdfunding efforts (taxes) with something more voluntary? That’s the question posed by this great Legally Weird post, which provides a number of...

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RomUniverse To Attempt To Crowdfund Legal Defense, Which Isn't Going Well At All

We recently discussed Nintendo’s lawsuit against RomUniverse, part of a longstanding war on ROM sites that seems less than absolutely necessary given just how much cash the company is raking in from...

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Woman Who Refused To Wear Mask At Starbucks Wants Half The $100k In Tip Money...

I know you’ve heard this before, but just so we’re all clear: wear a fucking mask, people. It’s truly not that big of a deal. I wear one at work any time I am not seated in my office. It’s crazy easy...

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Content Moderation Case Study: GoFundMe Addresses Controversial Fundraising...

Summary: Shortly after protests began in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the shooting of Jacob Blake by police officers, armed citizens began showing up ostensibly to protect businesses and homes from violent...

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Patent Troll Sable Networks Apparently Needs To Learn A Lesson: Cloudflare...

In The Princess Bride, the character of Vizzini famously says: “Ha ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is ‘never get involved in a land war in Asia,’...

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Kickstarter For Hand-Drawn Video Game Manuals Shuts Down Due To IP Threat

You may recall that about a year ago we discussed one man’s attempt to digitize the game manuals for really old games. Notably, that project didn’t appear to face any threats over copyright laws by...

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Our Crowdfund For Our Paper Exploring NFTs Will Be Ending Soon

Support our crowdfunded paper exploring the NFT phenomenon » Last week we announced that we wanted to write a paper exploring the NFT phenomenon, and specifically what it meant with regards to the...

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