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In August, Milwaukee's Lake Park saw swarms of Pokémon Go players, some of whom trampled and trashed the area, making a general nuisance of themselves. Not everyone behaved badly, as John Dargle, Jr, director of the Milwaukee County Department of Parks, Recreation & Culture, acknowledged in a letter [PDF] at the time. But a subset of thoughtless gamers created enough of a burden that Milwaukee County Supervisor Sheldon Wasserman proposed an ordinance [PDF] to require augmented reality game makers to obtain a permit to use county parks in their apps.
The ordinance was approved and took effect in January. It has become a solution waiting for a problem – according to a spokesperson for Milwaukee County, no game maker has bothered to apply for a permit since then.
[...] Nonetheless, in April, Candy Lab, a maker of augmented reality games based in Nevada, filed a lawsuit "out of genuine fear and apprehension that this ordinance, conceptually and as written, poses a mortal threat not only to Candy Lab AR's new location-based augmented reality game, but also to its entire business model, and, indeed, to the emerging medium of augmented reality as a whole."
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Whoever on Saturday June 10 2017, @09:22PM (1 child)
It was always private property (although it will soon be a public park), it was fenced off, but one could still get in. I sent photos showing the fencing, the no entry signs, the private property signs, yet still they would not remove the locations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @09:40PM
its like when google honors just one request to remove some distasteful content. Suddenly they are responsible for all of it.
But I agree, there is stuff included in these programs and services that shouldn't be there anyway. Just because I live on the planet doesn't mean I want people's foot traffic as they climb over my fences to get properly geotagged so they can capture an augmented reality figment of a developer's imagination. That is profit driven, and while I wouldn't want to harm anyone to get them off my property, it seems that asking nicely should be more than enough.
We know it's not, and sometimes the best recourse is not to ask everyone that arrives to leave, but to have the developers remove the signs pointing to my property since I didn't ask for guests.