At her best! Like totally awesome….

 People Daily’s article discusses China’s new policy on online gameplay to stop the online game addiction. The system is as quoted:

The government yesterday issued a regulation, which takes effect on April 15, demanding online operators set up a “game fatigue system” that encourages players under 18 to play less than 3 hours a day.

It’s interesting because it creates an in-game incentive for people to play less, but MMORPG’s are just not the kind of game system that will work, it means that 17 year olds are always at a disadvantage to 19 year olds or up. I also think that it will cause a massive case of fraud reporting on real ages to circumvent this.

A long  but interesting post on the taking down of a fan based video which also happens to be one that I like a lot as well.

Produced by Adarahs, Ultimate Utopia is a fan parody of Final Fantasy (and I’m a BIG FAN of Final Fantasy) if you didn’t already know that.

The main point made is that this is not about copyright at all, otherwise why take down a Final Fantasy based parody, not related to Viacom at all but instead that it is “old media” trying to hurt the whole user generated content business and using copyright as a kind of excuse.

The Video is available still on a variety of places, including here and here.

Viacom should try that in China…I don’t think they will get very far!