http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c890 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:30:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c890 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/17490723465/leaked-nsas-talking-points-defending-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c1189 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:22:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/17490723465/leaked-nsas-talking-points-defending-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c1189
"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict." ~Witold Pilecki]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c878 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:21:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c878 Only 50?

Well, it took Osama only 1 to make the Americans turn their freedom-loving country into a police state.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/17490723465/leaked-nsas-talking-points-defending-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c1186 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:16:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/17490723465/leaked-nsas-talking-points-defending-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c1186
And now two brief sponsored messages, one for the Voting Cattle and two for the Sheepeople, who live near a steeple, that don't fly a flag of the yellow. Red, White and Blue cuts through all party lines. Like truth, justice and the American way.

http://youtu.be/NwztaQgv3-Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b70TUbdfs

Spying on Citizens within America is Spying. And Treason of their Oath of the Office.

First they came for the Facebooks,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't "Facebooker."

Then they came for the Twitters,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a "Twitterer."

Then they came for the Youtubes,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a "Youtuber."

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_UV2Mao2-E]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/00503223401/public-outcry-taiwan-kills-their-version-sopa.shtml#c62 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:04:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/00503223401/public-outcry-taiwan-kills-their-version-sopa.shtml#c62 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/00483923515/nsas-lockbox-has-no-lock.shtml#c716 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:02:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/00483923515/nsas-lockbox-has-no-lock.shtml#c716 no warrant: who you call
warrant: what you said]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130608/03355523371/warning-letters-under-uks-three-strikes-plan-unlikely-to-be-sent-out-before-2016-if-ever.shtml#c21 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:57:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130608/03355523371/warning-letters-under-uks-three-strikes-plan-unlikely-to-be-sent-out-before-2016-if-ever.shtml#c21 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/00503223401/public-outcry-taiwan-kills-their-version-sopa.shtml#c58 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:43:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/00503223401/public-outcry-taiwan-kills-their-version-sopa.shtml#c58
The most I have seen is Mike discussing his dislike of copyright abuse, not copyright enforcement.

Personally, I will not go back to the US, and will stay in Taiwan, until the government gets its collective head out of its ass and starts enforcing the original "for the public good" copyright viewpoint, instead of allowing the **AA's to push their abusive views on the general public.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/12373623425/mpaas-chris-dodd-will-be-chair-free-speech-week.shtml#c1609 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:37:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/12373623425/mpaas-chris-dodd-will-be-chair-free-speech-week.shtml#c1609
You however, labour under the delusion that you are owed discussion when you have no legitimate argument to address.

You refuse to face the undisputable fact that you're wrong. In that regard, you are a coward.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130605/18192323331/dhs-finally-releases-2011-report-civil-liberties-impact-suspicionless-electronic-device-searches-says-agent-hunches-trump.shtml#c882 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:35:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130605/18192323331/dhs-finally-releases-2011-report-civil-liberties-impact-suspicionless-electronic-device-searches-says-agent-hunches-trump.shtml#c882 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c768 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:54:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c768
The fact that you just out and out dismiss any counter arguments does not make you 'right.']]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c155 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:27:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c155 Entrepreneurs are unable to develop their businesses beyond a certain stage as they lack exclusive rights to or control over their innovations.
Another reason for not scaling up is that they have enough income, and do now want to sell their company to a capitalist.
Scaling up almost always result in the management, and then the workers being replaced. hat is why their are so many serial entrepreneurs. These are people who like running a small company, and hate corporate boardrooms with all their political infighting.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/00503223401/public-outcry-taiwan-kills-their-version-sopa.shtml#c35 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:26:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/00503223401/public-outcry-taiwan-kills-their-version-sopa.shtml#c35 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c766 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:19:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c766
I think it is seriously getting close to the need for a violent uprising by the people, lets do like France did and chop of their heads for their corrupt ways.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c765 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:19:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c765 Carried to is extreme, it would result in hosting providers moderating everything posted to sites that use their services.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c746 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:13:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c746
It would hurt the attorney general more if a full page add was taken out claiming that the attorney general was corrupted into attacking a site than any advertisement against a business, especially if a few sites owners had to get together and attack them.

Who is going to believe the AG when it is shown over and over again that they accept legal bribes and monies for themselves to use on whatever they want, where they receive paid holidays all the time to do attacks on others or to help pass laws. Seriously i don't think websites have any problem as long as they attack the AG where it hurts, in the press , with attacking their moral conduct in public , just as the AG has done and made acceptable.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/00503223401/public-outcry-taiwan-kills-their-version-sopa.shtml#c21 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:05:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/00503223401/public-outcry-taiwan-kills-their-version-sopa.shtml#c21 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#c702 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:03:13 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#c702
Yes, isn't that how you define success for American movies? Are you now moving the goalposts because the results don't match your agenda, or are you going to finally give us an objective means to measure whether something is successful?

"They're comically horrid."

Sorry, your personal tastes don't matter when assessing the output of a foreign culture. Let me guess, you're one of those people who think that your personal taste dictates everything that should be made?

They're certainly lower budget than American movies, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Most American output is crap, and there's enough people watching these things outside of India to demonstrate that there's a market even if you don't like them (e.g. Bollywood movies regularly break the top 10 in the UK, despite never being press screened or even shown outside of certain cities).]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c721 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:53:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c721 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c2546 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:42:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c2546