http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100714/00462310203.shtml#c234 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:26:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100714/00462310203.shtml#c234 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c694 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:21:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c694 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c684 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:18:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c684 Advocating for known criminals and criminality is dicey at best.
Remember to state that the next time you need an attorney for any alleged wrongs you might of committed.. I'm sure it will go down well with your counsel's attitude towards you]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c669 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:15:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c669
If the outliers were the abuses then you might have a point, instead you are stating that abuse of process is okay because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.. WHO FUCKING DECIDES???!!!!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c663 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:14:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c663
Fixed]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c267 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:59:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c267 If I were interested in a movie, I might view it first to see if it's worth my hard earned money. If so, I'll go to any of a plethora of legal sites and pay to purchase it in high quality.

So you want to entirely enjoy the product, in it's complete form, and then decide if you might want to tip them? What you are suggesting here is very dangerous, that you should be allowed to obtain your side of the bargain (entertainment) without risk, and that they should provide it to you at 100% risk - and only one of you invested time, effort, and money to produce it.

It seems an incredibly unfair concept. Try that out on a hotel, rental car, train, or public transit one day. See how far it gets you.

Study after study shows that the top people downing without purchase invariably purchase IP they deem worthy.

The most recent study out of the UK showed that those people are such a small part of the market that the non-downloaders and even non-buying public combined spends 10 times as much as they do as a whole. There is no benefit shown to converting the large existing market into pirates (or giving them the product for your full free trial as suggested). There is little to show that they would suddenly spend more money, and ever reason to believe they would spend less.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c257 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:55:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c257 The Judge repeatedly requested the most basic of information, like who was the person behind a signature, who was the owner of a company, etc. And when no one gave him that information, he requested it from people who supposedly could.

Is this the judge's job? Or is this the job of the defense? If the judge felt there was fraud here, should he have not referred it to the police or other authorities to look into?

Dragging people not named in the case into court to give them a dressing down - and punishment - without due process is incredibly over the top. It's the same sort of thing you guys would whine about if a pirate was on the hook.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c793 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:54:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c793
...like the Rectal Insertion Administration of America?

Drop your pants and bend over, Mr. Babar.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c408 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:31:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c408 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1433 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:30:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1433
Probably because the falsehoods, lies and whining doesn't work, so all he has are insults and pretending that he's the real victim when people retaliate or report his comments. He occasionally stumbles across a nugget of fact or insight, but they're usually undermined by his childish attitude and inability to impart any wisdom without turning it into a personal attack on Mike or a regular commenter. Given that he cannot therefore take part in adult debate, he turns to insults and an imaginary sense of superiority - something he'll never realise is false since he's incapable of reading the times Mike has tried to debate him only to be attacked or misrepresented.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c746 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:08:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c746 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c863 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:06:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c863 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c738 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:05:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c738 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c251 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:44:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c251
What I do not grant, given the "Home Recording Act" that simply downloading a copyrighted work without compensation is harmful. Study after study shows that the top people downing without purchase invariably purchase IP they deem worthy.

Put another way...

If I were interested in a movie, I might view it first to see if it's worth my hard earned money. If so, I'll go to any of a plethora of legal sites and pay to purchase it in high quality. If I think it's trash, I've not expended any money, only my (to me) valuable time to review it.

How many times have you viewed a riveting trailer only to find that the entire movie's worth was in that trailer? I've lost count. It's in the thousands for me. Why should I generously shell out the geetius for garbage? Because it's protected by the "most holy" copyright act? Elephant dung thrown on canvas is protected by copyright. That doesn't give it any intrinsic or extrinsic worth to me. It's still excrement smeared on canvas.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c644 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:44:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c644
Why do you never acknowledge the faults with your beloved Copyright system?

Why do you fail to acknowledge the abuses of Copyright maximalist like yourself?

Why don't you acknowledge how Copyright stiffles innovation and creation?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c246 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:15:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c246 or otherwise, remember.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c790 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:10:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c790 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c774 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:47:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c774 Causing actual harm to children is, in most people's view, evil. Writing about causing harm to children is a lot more dubious. You might be on slightly less shaky legal ground if you had evidence that fiction incited people to immediately molest children. I have not seen such evidence.

There are any number of studies out there that show that there are people who have these urges but do no act on them for various reasons. Getting in contact with like minded people, or getting what amounts to instructional stories from people may push them to actual acts. You can look around Google, I am sure you will find interesting reading to expand you mind on this horrible tendency that exists in some.

videotaping a fifteen-year old having sex is illegal, because it's considered to be exploiting and harming the child. Writing about a fifteen-year old having sex does not harm the child, and is not illegal. When the court prosecutes someone for molesting a child, they are not required to tailor the punishment based upon the child's age.

Part of this is a question of black and white law, the day you turn 18 you are old enough to get naked on camera and die for your country, but not drink. Arbitrary settings which we accept as law for various reasons. I could wish that some of the pirates here were so virtuous in respecting the law! In some places (such as Canada) writing about underage sex for titilation / pleasure was made illegal. In the US, there has been great protection for the written word, but since some choose to push the very limits, there is always someone who will step over.

I'm not sure where to even start on this one. "Skirting the law by hiding in the first amendment" is equivalent to "obeying the law". People do legal things on the internet when they want to.

It's actually the idea that since someone erotica has been deemed legal in certain ways, that these people decided to push it to the nth degree and go all out pedophile in the nastiest way possible.

Let's look at it a different way. Straight porn videos are for all intents and purposes legal now. Even a recent past AG was quoted as saying that some porn does garner 1st amendment protection as legal and protected speech. Yet, on the other hand, guys like Paul Little have gone to jail for obscenity - mostly because he pushed the limits and went beyond the public's comfort zone. Obscenity isn't a black and white issue, and it's a poor judgement system legally, but it is what it is. I doubt there are very many people here on Techdirt who would enjoy extreme pedophile fiction, and most would find it disgusting and degrading. That is pretty much the standard for finding something obscene.

Speaking as someone who feels no particular urge to molest children, I also feel no particular urge to read a lot of other people's fantasies about molesting children. I think that you're confusing cause and effect, here.

You and I are normal people and don't have these urges. However, some people do. Most of them apparently never act on the urges, instead getting their satisfaction with the Sears catalog or whatever. Most people who collect CP (in all it's forms) have not acted on their urges before obtaining the material, but some will after. They can learn from the stories of others ways to achieve those goals.

If you don't think people follow example, consider how many people have been killed lying down on the line in the middle of the highway following a certain movie release. These aren't people who "had the urge" to die, but they did it anyway. People learn, good and bad, from example.

yet we would not expect those to be prohibited because they can be misused

Nobody is prohibiting writing. That is one of the least honest arguments in that case, the typical misdirection of those who seek to obscure their bad acts behind smoke and mirrors and logical dead ends. Some people think that a scud missile launcher makes a nice lawn ornament, but that isn't going to make owning a real one any more legal.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c226 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:46:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c226
You seem to be blatantly misrepresenting what happened in the course of this trial. You're saying they were not given time to make a defence, but they were not being accused of a single thing.

The Judge repeatedly requested the most basic of information, like who was the person behind a signature, who was the owner of a company, etc. And when no one gave him that information, he requested it from people who supposedly could. And when every single claimant and every single legal representative directly involved with this case could not answer a single question, the judge imposed legal sanctions.

Once again, these sanctions were not for committing a crime. They were for obstructing the legal process.

Piracy is irrelevant to this.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c637 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:42:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c637 "Yet, you only hyper-focus on the outliers. What's the matter with a little perspective on things, Mike?"

What perspective is required for a story about four film studios all trying to illegally suppress a film about a website they hate, and which is (probably) critical of their actions? This isn't just just an "outlier", this is an egregious example of copyright abuse as censorship, an act that is the complete antithesis of the stated supposed of copyright, i.e. encouraging creativity.]]>