ISK, In-Game Friendship, and AI – 3Qs to Hilmar Veigar Pétursson

"More people use the EVE ISK than the Icelandic ISK — that’s one metric where we’ve won."

www.netopia.eu/isk-friendsh... #GameDev #AI #GenerativeAI #DigitalEconomy #OnlineCommunities, #TechTrends, #GameIndustry, #FutureOfAI,

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

DEMOCRACY JACKING
"Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups"
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The Tech Coup....

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

DEMOCRACY JACKING
"Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups"
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

EU copyright developments in early 2026; covering AI, platform liability, and internal market issues. Good roundup here ->
#Copyright #AI #EUlaw #IP ©️legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-blog/eu-copyri...

Indeed, you have a good point; and this is also where fines don't work, the income from the infringement outweighs those fines at every juncture.

FEP and global book organisations are pushing to boost reading among young people — a timely reminder that literacy underpins creativity, education, and future innovation.

#Reading #Literacy #Education #Books #Publishing #YouthDevelopment #CreativeEconomy www.fep-fee.eu/FEP-and-othe....

The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy AI has pushed society into a period of tumult and confusion. What comes next will determine if humanity remains the author of its own story.

"What once belonged to politics — the imaginative labor of collective destiny — has been quietly surrendered to the corporate logic of the algorithm. The result is not enlightenment but enclosure: a society awake to everything except itself " www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Spotify just won $322 million from music pirates it can’t find A symbolic win, given enforcement concerns.

Spotify just won $322 million from music pirates it can’t find

www.theverge.com/policy/91300...

Warner Bros. Files Criminal Complaint Against Chilean IPTV Operator Over "Alarming" Piracy Growth * TorrentFreak Warner Bros. filed a criminal complaint targeting Streaming Chile SpA, an operation that claims to serve over 35,000 customers worldwide.

Warner Bros. Files Criminal Complaint Against Chilean IPTV Operator Over “Alarming” Piracy Growth

torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-...

MPA's Rivkin: "Protecting copyright an economic necessity" Motion Picture Association Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin has reaffirmed the body’s commitment to protecting copyright in the age of AI. Delivering his an

“Protecting copyright an economic necessity."

www.advanced-television.com/2026/04/15/m...

CDA 230 Thirty Year Anniversary - Netopia Remember the internet in the 1990s? No social media, no video-sharing, no encrypted chats. It was early days enthusiasm, the wonder of sending messages across the world, chatting with strangers on ICQ...

CDA 230 Thirty-Year Anniversary
Think about it: neutral platforms. Network neutrality. Principles of non-interference. It makes sense for roads, so why not expand it to all kinds of services?
www.netopia.eu/cda-230-thir... #regulation #copyright #cda230 #tech #digitalpolicy

#StarterPack emphasis on platforms, competition law, digital rights, tech regulation, press freedom, market dominance, surviellance capitalism, and tech landscape within EU (Copyright Directive, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Fairness Act, GDPR & AI Act).

Section 230 Anniversary: How It Created the Internet as We Know It - Netopia Review of The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet by Jeff Kosseff (Cornell University Press 2019) The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet by Jeff Kosseff, cyber-security law professor at...

Section 230 Anniversary: How It Created the Internet as We Know It

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CDA 230 Thirty Year Anniversary - Netopia Remember the internet in the 1990s? No social media, no video-sharing, no encrypted chats. It was early days enthusiasm, the wonder of sending messages across the world, chatting with strangers on ICQ...

#NEWPOST: www.netopia.eu/cda-230-thir...

"Much of the regulation and compliance requirements that have been brought in the last decade – DSA, DMA, different flavours of national regulation and so on – come from the need to mitigate or reverse the effects of CDA 230."

What if It’s Not Tech Addiction, but Something Worse? - Netopia Our devices control us more than we control them. We have become slaves to technology. Instant gratification triggers our dopamine system keeping us hooked on social media. We touch our phones several...

Meta is held liable in cases of social media addiction.
What if addiction isn't the only problem?
But something worse?

www.netopia.eu/not-tech-add...

Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines Larger publishers with better brand recognition and stronger direct-to-consumer products are more insulated from declines in traditional search traffic.

Small Publishers Hit Hardest by Search Traffic Declines

www.axios.com/2026/03/17/c... @fep-fee.bsky.social #publishing #goodreads #copyright #genai #creators #journalism

A jury is rewriting the platform accountability playbook in the US - The Platform Law Blog By Dr. Konstantina Bania A California jury has done something US courts have long refused to do: hold Meta and YouTube legally responsible not for what users post, but for how their platforms are desi...

"the EU has already made design a regulatory object; the Meta/YouTube verdict shows US tort law converging – not on speech, but on architecture."

the-platform-law.com/2026/04/15/a...

Each new tech is more capricious and nefarious than the last.....Has Silicon Valley run out of hype...?

A jury is rewriting the platform accountability playbook in the US - The Platform Law Blog By Dr. Konstantina Bania A California jury has done something US courts have long refused to do: hold Meta and YouTube legally responsible not for what users post, but for how their platforms are desi...

"the EU has already made design a regulatory object; the Meta/YouTube verdict shows US tort law converging – not on speech, but on architecture."

the-platform-law.com/2026/04/15/a...

Copyright Absurdism - Netopia There is a pattern in the copyright debate, which I think is different from most other fields of policy. Whatever the proposal, quickly the most extreme and absurd interpretation emerges and takes cen...

Copyright Absurdism (#archivepost from 2018)
There is a pattern in the copyright debate, which I think is different from most other fields of policy. Whatever the proposal, quickly the most extreme & absurd interpretation emerges and takes centre stage.
www.netopia.eu/copyright-ab... ©️

Copyright Absurdism - Netopia There is a pattern in the copyright debate, which I think is different from most other fields of policy. Whatever the proposal, quickly the most extreme and absurd interpretation emerges and takes cen...

Copyright Absurdism (#archivepost from 2018)
There is a pattern in the copyright debate, which I think is different from most other fields of policy. Whatever the proposal, quickly the most extreme & absurd interpretation emerges and takes centre stage.
www.netopia.eu/copyright-ab... ©️

Tech coup meets Lawfare.

‘Irresponsible failure’: Google, Meta, Snap and Microsoft slam EU over child sexual abuse law lapse Experts warn lapse could sharply reduce reports of abuse, echoing a 58% drop during a similar legal gap in 2021

Tech can track you to within an inch of your life but can't stop CSAM without a legal carve out?

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Unclear Legal Landscape for AI Spawns Licensing as US Sees 100 Copyright Cases www.mlex.com/mlex/intelle...

Not so fast. EFF has pocketed $1m from Google and Facebook alike. These are not knights in shining white armour. No, No

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Fastly, LaLiga collaborate on anti-piracy innovation Fastly, a specialist in global edge cloud platforms, and LaLiga, Spain’s Professional Football Association, have partnered to develop technical solutions to a

LaLiga estimating that piracy costs its clubs between $700-$800 million (€600-€700 million) each year

#AntiPiracy #DigitalEnforcement #ContentRights #IPLaw #StreamingPiracy #SportsRights #PlatformLiability #AIEnforcement #EdgeTech www.advanced-television.com/2026/04/10/f...

Cloudflare and GoDaddy team up to help websites fend off Big Tech's AI bot swarm Cloudflare and GoDaddy are partnering to give websites control over AI crawlers, aiming to fix the web's broken business model in the AI era.

Will @cloudflare.social & @godaddy.com respect robots.txt?

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