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posted by takyon on Saturday June 10 2017, @07:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the full-life-consequences dept.

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: 2) by takyon on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:08AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:08AM (#523655) Journal

    Here's a policy that may work for you. Ban people from going to the public park. It's closed forever. We could also try banning people from public sidewalks.

    These AR apps don't even need events to draw people into these locations. Somebody codes up FlowerPower, the game where you use your smartphone camera to harvest flowers for your manure farm. You only have one good park in the area that has flowers maintained there. The game is a runaway success and thousands of people ruin bits of grass in the park. Wow, too bad. Can't be helped. Raise local sales taxes if you can't maintain the park.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @02:19AM (#523659)

    Here's a policy that may work for you. Ban people from going to the public park. It's closed forever. We could also try banning people from public sidewalks.

    There's no need to ban people, just men. Men don't respect public property, private property, or the supremacy of women. All men belong in prison.