The LFG would like help putting together useful small applications, wordpress widgets on web and mobile phones for getting submission forms to Senators/Congressmen and perhaps even create an LFG iPhone app.

Interested parties should e-mail contact@leagueforgamers.org with a resume and link to samples.

Thank you!!!

We’ve been working with lawyers and accountants to find the ideal structure to set up before taking any further donations. One function of either this organization or one of its sister organization which we may need to create, is to fund political contributions to candidates who understand the Internet and gaming, and to oppose candidates who were in favor of SOPA/PIPA.

This will take time.

But if we do it right, we will be in a good position to do more than just petitions in the future.

We are also looking to assemble the writing group from the blog portion of this site. Thank you for submitting your resumes. We hope to get back to everyone in a week or two.

Finally, we hired a designer to help us with a design for this site and to enact forums, which everyone has been asking for.

That’s it for now. Thank you for your continued support!

Filesonic just announced that they have disabled file-sharing between users. You can now only download files that you have personal uploaded. It is widely assumed that this was in response to the criminal prosecution of Megaupload, which has lead to a “chilling” effect on filesharing services and possible innovation in this space. Is Dropbox next, for example?

Where does criminal copyright infringement start and stop for services which host files in the cloud? Are we destined for a future where people can no longer share files with each other? This is exactly what media companies would love to see.

Megauploads case will set a huge precedent for the future of file-sharing. We feel that it is infeasible and unreasonable to hold file sharing companies liable for the activities of their users. Phone companies are not liable for the criminal or unlawful information distributed through their cables…why should filesharing services be any different?  If  filesharing companies are liable for their user’s activities, where does it stop? Are ISP’s now liable? The companies that lay the fibre? How can any of these companies be responsible unless they are asked to spy on their users?

We completed this video yesterday, before the news of the ESA’s withdrawal of support from PIPA/SOPA. However, we still feel its important to get this message out there: