http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1421 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:34:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1421 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c615 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:33:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10290323174/vod-service-acetrax-shuts-down-germany-customers-movies-are-lost-due-to-drm.shtml#c615 A question, if the media file is already on a HD, isn't it possible to just recode the movie into a different format like avi, mp4 or DV and avoid the drm?

Why bother? Much easier to just get it from a torrent site, and no different morally. You've already paid for the movie, you're just letting someone else format shift it for you.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c523 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:32:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c523 https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/486828_10151439770029067_1296824877_n.jpg]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c247 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:32:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c247
DTD :)]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c231 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:31:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c231 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c635 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:31:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c635 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c222 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:29:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c222 http://brettandshannonscaribbeanwedding.com

Guys with less than $500 often have expensive Caribbean destination weddings.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c447 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:28:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c447 I think people also have to take things into context.
What's really wrong with the idea that if you shoot someone in the back]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179.shtml#c1128 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:27:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179.shtml#c1128 An abuser always tries to convince the world, and the victim himself, that the victim is crazy when he decries unjust treatment. It's not crazy if it's true.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c948 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:27:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c948
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/081611thirty

You can scroll through the comments and see a couple different variations where people have put all thirty years in one graph. My favorite is almost at the end of the thread, where you can see CD sales as an enormous blue bubble holding the industry aloft for *years* while consumers convert their LP collections to CDs as the labels slowly bring out their back catalogues on CD in shitty masters, and then finally in decent remasterings that consumers buy yet again.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c434 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:24:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c434 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c204 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:24:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c204 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1406 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:20:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1406 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c413 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:19:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c413 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c389 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:18:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c389
I have a Samsung S3, and Samsung's website lists the dimensions as 5.38 x 2.78 x 0.34 inches and the S4 is .31" thick. The iPhone 4 is listed as being .037" thick, while the iPhone 5 is .30" thick.

While there is a .17 caliber bullet, the most common smallest rounds are the .204 and the .22 caliber rounds.

For argument's sake, a Samsung S3 built to be a gun using a .204 caliber round would have to have a barrel that is less than .07" thick. ( .34" - .204" = .136" AND .136"/2 = .068")

That gun would be a bigger threat to the person pulling the trigger than to the cop.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c193 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:18:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c193 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1382 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:15:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/01382223168/new-york-times-tells-startup-it-cant-even-mention-ny-times.shtml#c1382 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c926 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:13:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c926
Could the MAFIAA replace iTunes or Amazon? Honestly that ship sailed twenty years ago. I think it's been sufficiently demonstrated that the recording industry has zero interest in competing with iTunes or Amazon.

So where would a consumer go to buy their bland, regurgitated product? I say pull the plug and let them die with dignity.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c817 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:13:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c817 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c185 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:13:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c185