http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c170 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:12:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c170 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c831 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:06:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c831 So frustrating that everyone seems to think it's just okay to use someone else's content.

You should learn what fair use means. Might help.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c446 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:59:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16203623112/nintendo-exchanges-goodwill-control-issues-mass-monetization-claims-lets-play-videos.shtml#c446 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c162 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:54:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c162 Laughter is good

Of course it is.

And believe me, Mike, people laugh at you all the time.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c139 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:53:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c139 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1917 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:52:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1917
The real issue at hand here is that society as a whole has lost respect for each other, and in doing so, has also lost the tolerance for youthful exuberance and learning to play with others. Teachers feel so disrespected, principals feel so powerless to stop anything, that the only way they deal with things is by involving a higher authority, the police.

Imagine the outrage if these kids got suspended. Lawsuits from the parents claiming the kids are being denied an education. You could be sure one of them was "not white" and would play the race card, and perhaps if there was a girl involved she would claim that the school security guard touched her inappropriately somewhere along the line. The schools don't want to resolve anything at their own level because the students and the parents don't respect them and attack them at every turn.

So what happens? When anything out of the ordinary happens, they call in the police. They don't deal with it, they call in the authorities. Getting a photocopy of tomorrows math test a day early is now theft, treated by the police. It's all out there.

Where does it come from? Generation Disrespect. We are slowly but surely sinking down to where the whole world is being ruled by people who will use the legal system, guns, and worse to get everything their way, no matter what.

Sort of like the anti-copyright anti-patent people, it's all about pulling the covers there way no matter what, even if they don't deserve it.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c178 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:51:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c178 "Patent Abuse Reduction Act".]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c237 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:31:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c237 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c710 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:29:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c710 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c694 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:22:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c694 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/14172323158/judge-not-impressed-prenda-alan-cooper-lawsuit.shtml#c897 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:53:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/14172323158/judge-not-impressed-prenda-alan-cooper-lawsuit.shtml#c897 He makes John Steele look smart ten times over.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c273 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:40:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c273
Consent is also limited.
If I participate in an interview, I have no right to withdraw my consent to the effect that everyone knowing of my action should have their archives deleted and being jailed or punished for speaking about me.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c703 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:33:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c703
Neither Google nor wget magically know what files are available on a site. For the files to show up in a recursive wget (or to the Google spider, for that matter), it means that the files had to be actively linked to from other accessible pages on the site. Somewhere on their public-facing website, there was a link pointing to all those thousands of insecure, confidential documents that the company wasn't even supposed to be keeping in the first place.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1904 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:25:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1904 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c233 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:21:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/10364522962/eric-schmidt-still-fan-figuring-out-way-to-erase-past.shtml#c233
Ah...but what we do post on the Internet can be public if we choose it to be. We can delete stupid Facebook posts and pictures at will. When someone with a juvenile record turns 18 in the US, that record is sealed from the court system's use and cannot legally be used against that person in any way. What you did is sealed off.

Do you see the problem in what Schmidt is proposing as it entrusts web users not to lie about their ages, and websites to fully erase your personal data when you become an "adult"?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c127 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:13:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c127
That's probably the only thing that the proponents of compulsory licensing and the major record labels agree on.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1885 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:12:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c1885
Schools are full of some not-so-bright people sometimes, but they see the writing on the wall. If they try to fix it themselves, they get sued, pay money, are easy targets. Instead it's "Zero Tolerance" and call the cops -- see we did all we could, didn't touch any one, didn't restrain anyone, didn't tolerate something we should have stopped. It's Zero Tolerance bullying, Zero tolerance touching, zero tolerance of anything that might make someone sad... it's 5 year olds with Behaviour Contracts because they won't play well with other, it's suspending a kid for biting his poptart into a gun shape, a 12 year old boy is a sex offender for trying get a girl he likes to talk to him, on and on and on. Parents do the same, saying my kid needs to be protected from everything, no traumatizing events like being called a name or having to deal with someone she doesn't like talking to her.... that is what it is coming too.

We get what we incentivize. We sue people, organizations, entities at the drop of a hat, even if they win it's costs thousands - millions of dollars. All because someone couldn't tolerate being called a name. We make children who can't deal with a confrontational situation, parents who overreact to everything. We incentivize stupidity and intolerance in the very name of the tolerance of diversity we preach. Now we are getting the society of call the cops for everything, I mean in school for that last 30 years, whenever there was a problem we had to get a teacher involved, not resolve it ourselves, we might get punished. Now those kids they run the schools and they still do that but a teacher is now a cop.

The end result -- all the protected, nurtured individuals cease development, by pure numbers, they squeeze out the stronger natural order breeds and the civilization as a whole get's weaker.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c124 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:12:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c124 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120824/12382120149/authors-guild-continues-to-battle-present-attacks-another-legal-service-as-infringing.shtml#c1251 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:59:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120824/12382120149/authors-guild-continues-to-battle-present-attacks-another-legal-service-as-infringing.shtml#c1251 pay-us-eternaly-for-we-will-be-extending-copyright-on-everything-just-before-it-is-about-to-expire-see-mickey-mouse-protection-act.com/legal/terms/
That should work.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c78 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:56:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/22543223166/modest-proposal-going-piracy-neutral.shtml#c78
How's this for a remix? Just shorten "And, because people who angrily write comments on this site rarely read to the end of the post, I'll just point out that this is a joke, not anything even remotely serious." down to This site is a joke, not anything even remotely serious.]]>