http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c698 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:50:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c698 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c680 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:49:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c680 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1682 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:43:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1682
Oh, really... what about a DVD, or a BluRay, or a CD, or a (well treated) Book then. A used game (on disc) degrades about the same, yet we don't have the MPAA, RIAA, or the Authours Guild trying to pull this shit with their physical products.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c704 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:41:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c704 The United States is the government.

Or the Ford Motor Company. As in, what's good for them is good for America.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c693 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:39:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c693 And the whistleblowers are supposed to be the enemies of the country?

Enemies of the country? No.

Enemies of the state? Absolutely.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c674 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:38:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c674
Unless you're Mike's alt meant to drum up activity, in which case... joke's old man.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c677 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:37:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c677 This is an unconscionable situation in the richest nation in the world.

Only 25% of the United States is the richest nation in the world. I think richer than the rest of the world combined.

The rest of us are no-one to speak of.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1663 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:31:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1663 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c656 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:23:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c656 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2344098/NSA-hearing-Tell-boss-I-owe-friggin-beer-Hot-mic-catches-NSA-boss-praising-FBI-chiefs-supportive-testimony-surveillance-programs.html]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c130 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:13:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c130 "Intellectual property" is a valid notion

How do you figure, OOTB2? Given that more than one person can have an idea whose property is that idea? Lookup Knuth-Morris-Pratt string matching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%E2%80%93Morris%E2%80%93Pratt_algorithm) - hardly trivial, yet discovered at least twice. Many other computer algorithms suffer from the same problem. Also, spread-spectrum frequency hopping radio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-hopping_spread_spectrum#Multiple_inventors

So, whose property is KMP? Whose property is spread spectrum frequency hopping radio?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130610/11401523395/japans-prime-minister-mocks-tpp-protestors-facebook.shtml#c277 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:58:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130610/11401523395/japans-prime-minister-mocks-tpp-protestors-facebook.shtml#c277
Remember we promised to liberalize the rice trade decades ago. How much American rice does Japan buy? How much American rice can you see on the shelves in Seiyu, Jusco or Aeon supermarkets?

I'm more worried about Abenomics! Anybody need a bridge built in the middle of nowhere or a nuclear reactor that is almost guaranteed to fail critically?

Here's what 70yrs of the LDP gave us http://regex.info/i/JEF_027676.jpg]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c113 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:58:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c113 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

Here is one of many stories that repeat themselves over and over again.

The guy Alan Bond had an idea for a new propulsion system in 80's, he obviously patented, after securing some funding from the British government and Rolls Royce, the patents were marked "classified" material by the British government and he couldn't talk to anyone after the same government withdrew funding, twenty years later after the patents lapsed he restarted looking for funding and investor and made another company to build an SSOL(Single Stage to Orbit Launcher), but this time around he didn't patent anything is all protected by the old trade secrets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)
BBC Four: The Three Rocketeers (Documentary 45 min)

The tools used by the rich to keep reach are the exclusionary tools that so keep defending, the same tools that allow "to big to fail" to happen without any safety net(competitors) for that event.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c250 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:49:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c250 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c100 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:40:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c100
IP laws are mercantile practices dude, don't you ever read anything?

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Mercantilism.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism

Debit and Credit by Gustav Freytag
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19754

A Short View of the Laws Now Subsisting with Respect to the Powers of the East
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37082

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier and Smith
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38194

Laissez-faire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire

Goes contrary to IP laws, where is the capitalism in a market create by governments not the need to trade?

Fraking ignorant dweeb.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c84 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:34:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c84
I keep telling myself so I feel like there is hope for the future. If we keep on the path we are on, mankind is screwed.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/16480623431/us-chamber-commerce-bollywood-is-so-successful-without-strong-copyrights-that-it-will-fail-unless-india-strengthens-its.shtml#c641 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:17:33 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/16480623431/us-chamber-commerce-bollywood-is-so-successful-without-strong-copyrights-that-it-will-fail-unless-india-strengthens-its.shtml#c641 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c72 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:58:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c72
You're more relevant how, exactly?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/12553023511/nsa-boss-asks-congress-legal-immunity-companies-that-help-nsa-spy-everyone.shtml#c656 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:53:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/12553023511/nsa-boss-asks-congress-legal-immunity-companies-that-help-nsa-spy-everyone.shtml#c656 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01573323504/senator-lindsey-graham-defends-nsa-surveillance-arguing-about-something-entirely-different.shtml#c692 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:48:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01573323504/senator-lindsey-graham-defends-nsa-surveillance-arguing-about-something-entirely-different.shtml#c692 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121006/10153520628/time-warner-cable-suddenly-forced-to-compete-kansas-city-complains-google-has-unfair-advantage.shtml#c1543 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:42:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121006/10153520628/time-warner-cable-suddenly-forced-to-compete-kansas-city-complains-google-has-unfair-advantage.shtml#c1543