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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
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: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Sunday June 11 2017, @12:54AM
There is no event.
There is no schedule.
Its nothing more than a notation on an electronic map.
People choose when to go to that notation.
They do it in their free time.
The city can choose when to close the park gates.
It doesn't matter how many bone headed arguments you dream up there is no possible way that any mention of the existence of a park needs a permit from the city with fees paid. There is no possible way that could be enforced, there is no possible way anyone could ever fulfill such a requirement to register and pay fees for every frickin park in the world.
You are lobbying (with unfathomable pinheadery) for a police state of ridiculous proportions to seize money from any company that so much as mentions a park when the taxpayers who actually own the park, and pay for it's upkeep, actually use the park.
I suppose I'm going to have to have a corporate sponsor to visit a park now? A badge issued by Pepsi, or Ford?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.