http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c254 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:50:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c254 If we killed all the lawyers (except mine - I need him to play banjo in our bluegrass band)I'm pretty sure that won't do much about politicians (other than the ones that are also lawyers, which is a good start), but it's an excellent plan anyway. Yours can just have a lobotomy instead.... a bit of plastic surgery to enlarge his ears and he'll be good to go for the band and a far more useful member of society :-)]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c541 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:50:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c541 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c247 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:45:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c247 This will never happen as there are "too many secrets". Movie reference anyone?Unfortunately, even with a magic answering machine to decrypt all (apparantly american only) computer systems, politics and politicians are unlikely to change while our "democracies" are such that it is a de facto requirement to be beholden to corporations in order to get elected.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c537 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:36:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c537 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1033 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:33:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1033
The crowd want more forms to be filled out for DMCA claims to *prevent* misuse, not allow it as has undisputably occurred here.

If the people filing these claims were honest and scrupulous, Klose wouldn't have to file any counterclaim.

There's no honest person who can claim this DMCA takedown is anything short of completely unscrupulous.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/09382823173/chicago-school-system-foia-requests-stonewalling-obfuscation-paper-shredding.shtml#c314 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:31:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/09382823173/chicago-school-system-foia-requests-stonewalling-obfuscation-paper-shredding.shtml#c314 .]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1023 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:28:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1023
He's not lionizing the scum, he's lionizing the people that the scum want rid of.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c527 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:21:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c527
DRM on music was a disaster. It did nothing to stop piracy, and fragmented the market giving Apple a monopoly on digital music distribution while those left over had to deal with the horrendously incompatible Microsoft DRM. It created a huge number of issues for consumers, putting many of them off even trying digital purchases, and destroyed consumer confidence when servers started to shut off. It's only when they dropped the demand for DRM and allowed universally compatible MP3s to be sold that sales took off, and true competitors like Amazon began to challenge Apple's dominance.

Here, the same thing's happening with movies. Restricted files, compatibility issues, lack of device support, artificial monopolies, competing DRM systems - and no appreciable reduction in piracy. It's about time they follow the example of the music industry and dropped this mess, before they lose even more sales from the simple fact that they refuse to offer what consumers are demanding.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c515 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:14:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c515
Whenever that day is, that's the first time I will even consider buying a digitally distributed movie from any non-independent source.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1021 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:00:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1021 Coincidence? All four at once? Anomaly?

No, actually it reads more like someone playing some sort of trick to get it to happen, in order to get the Mike's beloved effect into play. The video pretty much disappeared off everyone's radar within a few days of it's release. The choirboys say it and said amen, the rest of us who cared looked at it and sort of giggled at how one sided it was.

This stinks of shameless self-promotion and a nasty attempt at "going viral".]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c293 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:00:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c293
Yuk, pre-coffee comment... let's try again:

"half the issues discussed here wouldn't exist"]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130425/17042522839/how-gema-is-still-worst-collective-rights-organization-world.shtml#c969 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:57:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130425/17042522839/how-gema-is-still-worst-collective-rights-organization-world.shtml#c969
You're and idiot.

yaaaiiiiiii.

I wish I could have your ignorance, must be bliss!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c499 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:54:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c499
It's funny how you're so obsessed with commenting on this site, yet you've somehow missed that this is exactly the claim that most articles here completely disprove. Why, it's almost as if you're dishonest and never bother to read anything!

Either way, simple reality proves you wrong. Apart from all the physical example of why that's a lie (bottled water sells very well despite every home having it literally on tap), there's a wealth of history that shows you're a liar. iTunes and Amazon are very successful at selling music despite the existence of both piracy and free radio. Books sell despite libraries, eBooks sell despite piracy. We've already had one of the top 10 internationally grossing movies of all time this year alone despite free alternatives. Linux hasn't shut down paid OSes, OpenOffice hasn't shut down MS Office, people still pay for phones and texts despite the existence of Skype and WhatsApp.

Reality proves you are a liar.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1009 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:44:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1009 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c268 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:40:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c268
No, because it all happened before Disney pushed the twisted version of copyright you so slavishly follow and worship. In Disney's time, he was able to take freely from works by dead authors. Those authors, in turn, took from centuries of traditional stories by dead authors. Nobody complained because there was literally no problem, morally or legally, in doing so. It's only now that current generations are blocked from taking from Disney's stories now that he's dead. People are complaining because they're blocked from doing perfectly acceptable things using freedoms their predecessors enjoyed without question.

"Of course Disney is bad example for later years, but was absolutely true up to 28 years from creation date."

So why do you support the extension well beyond that 28 years that's now in place? If that 28 year limit was still in place, half the issue discussed here wouldn't exit. But you're not honest enough to admit that, are you?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c254 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:07:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c254 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c246 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:06:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c246 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c980 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:57:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/11032823096/how-low-can-drones-go.shtml#c980
Are Beer Drones the Future of Music Festivals? A Q&A With Darkwing Aerial's Dean Engela | Billboard

I can see it being used to drop supplies in remote areas, too.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130210/01422321932/ron-paul-un-hater-asks-un-to-take-ronpaulcom-forcefully-ron-pauls-biggest-supporters.shtml#c1598 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:50:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130210/01422321932/ron-paul-un-hater-asks-un-to-take-ronpaulcom-forcefully-ron-pauls-biggest-supporters.shtml#c1598 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121221/03290221463/graphic-novel-declared-terrorist-operation-us-government-advance-money-seized.shtml#c513 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:50:33 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121221/03290221463/graphic-novel-declared-terrorist-operation-us-government-advance-money-seized.shtml#c513