http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c36 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:55:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c36 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c597 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:46:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c597
Filling Users Content Knowledge Entirely Digital - FUCKED.

or Content Universally Needs Trading - CUNT


it's all good.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c715 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:44:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c715 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c759 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:43:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c759
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reno_v._American_Civil_Liberties_Union

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalition

District Court ruling goes down in flames.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/06201422976/chicago-blackhawks-fire-reporter-over-silly-old-youtube-videos.shtml#c325 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:37:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/06201422976/chicago-blackhawks-fire-reporter-over-silly-old-youtube-videos.shtml#c325 Major automakers concocting horrible advertising around suicide

you keep talking about it. Short term fail perhaps, but long term everyone knows the name of the ocmpany. Most businesses would do anything for this level of exposure, good or bad.

It's actually funny to see bloggers like you played in this manner.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c848 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:33:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c848 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c752 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:29:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c752
I'm surprised this whole law wasn't declared unconstitutional. I mean, I understand the desire to ban "anything immoral", but that's so open to interpretation that it seems to be impermissibly vague. I don't like the idea of a law which automatically incorporates "community standards". If you want to make written depictions of child sex illegal, then you should explicitly say so, and not leave people to guess.

I mean, we ordinarily have specific laws against things like arson and murder. We don't just leave it to some generic law that prohibits "indecent acts" with the implication that murder and arson are indecent. Because that would be silly. Yet somehow, it's deemed acceptable here.

This entire CHAPTER of the law has some rather over the top punishments, too. Using an epithet on a postcard can get you 5 years. Because... what, the mailman might get offended?

"interactive computer service (as defined in section 230(e)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934)"

OK, I just had to laugh at that.

"Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance"

Come on now, get out your thesaurus, I think you missed a few synonyms.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c590 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:28:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c590 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c575 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:26:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c575 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/10360323060/criminal-nabbed-his-own-food-porn.shtml#c40 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:23:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/10360323060/criminal-nabbed-his-own-food-porn.shtml#c40
Isn't that just called analytics nowadays?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c571 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:22:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c571 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/06201422976/chicago-blackhawks-fire-reporter-over-silly-old-youtube-videos.shtml#c301 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:17:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/06201422976/chicago-blackhawks-fire-reporter-over-silly-old-youtube-videos.shtml#c301 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c836 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:10:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c836 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c558 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:09:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c558 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c544 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:06:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c544 really get their attention: revocation of copyright.

Since they seem to love the idea of 6-strikes for piracy, just turn it around on them, with 5 bogus takedowns allowed in a year, and at the 6th their copyright over whatever it is they are issuing the DMCA claim for is revoked instantly, and it goes into the public domain.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c728 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:00:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c728 Even if it doesn't involve real children? Would you rather pedophiles find a different outlet than fantasy to satisfy their urges?

The lesser of two evils option does not minimize the evil. You can go and read up on things like escalation and training to understand why you can't just trade one for the other and feel better.

Age doesn't make any difference to fictional characters. They react however the author wants them to react. But it seems there's something you'd like to say about "sex with slightly underage boys or girls (say 15 or 16)" in general?

Any basic text on sexual urges will tell you that there is a big difference between pre and post pubescent desires. All I am saying is that many of us (except perhaps the geeks around here) had sex before their 18th birthday, but hopefully none before your 10th birthday. There is a really big difference, one that almost anyone can see.

Bypass what, exactly? Obscenity is always determined after the fact. There is no law that defines it in a way that would create a "loophole" of any kind.

The bypass is that once they got a ruling saying that the written word is rarely obscene, they all piled in. Real CP is rare as hell on the open internet, but you can find pedophile spank stories all over the place (just search for the author's name in question on Google...). They saw a way to share and communicate with each other about their experiences and fantasies, while skirting the law by hiding in the first amendment.

Training material? Are you suggesting anybody could be trained? Could you? As in "there but for the grace of God go I"?

Nice attempt at baiting, but you fail. You really do need to go read up a bit before you toss stuff like that out there. Yes, people can be trained, they go from having a basic urge but not knowing a way to express it into being a well trained soldier who learns from these stories ways to lure children.

Please stop trolling, okay?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1369 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:56:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1369
Try talking about the article and see what happens. But you will need to leave the author out of it.

Here is a free tip:
Always consider your audience and do not underestimate their intelligence.

Birds of a feather, fly together. I was drawn to the flock not for what was being told, but because of beliefs I had beforehand. Copyright is out of control and is too much of a burden on the public.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1360 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:52:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1360 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/10360323060/criminal-nabbed-his-own-food-porn.shtml#c35 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:44:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/10360323060/criminal-nabbed-his-own-food-porn.shtml#c35
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