http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c3407 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:56:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c3407 http://bit.ly/17fS1oZ

It is also relevant to Japan as the Japanese large publishers are lobbying to turn the authors rights into publishers rights before they move into the digital age. The government, on the other hand, is trying to build content distribution platform integrated with copyright clearance authority. It is in fact a revival of 1935-47 wartime regime for censorship.

Thank you,

Hiroki Kamata
Editor, E-Book 2.0 Forum]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1106 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:54:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1106 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1098 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:47:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1098 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01163623501/why-nsa-president-bush-got-fisa-court-to-reinterpret-law-order-to-collect-tons-data.shtml#c550 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:38:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01163623501/why-nsa-president-bush-got-fisa-court-to-reinterpret-law-order-to-collect-tons-data.shtml#c550
This, if actually used and accepted, would make enforcing copyright law practically impossible. Along with a lot of other law, actually...]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1048 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:37:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1048
After all, if you don't really know then you don't really know do you?

"Trust Us. You're Safer."

Uhh... no thanks - I think I'd rather do drugs and fight 'til the death, but thanks.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/06151423469/philippine-record-labels-get-government-to-play-whack-a-mole-with-kickass-torrents.shtml#c591 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:33:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/06151423469/philippine-record-labels-get-government-to-play-whack-a-mole-with-kickass-torrents.shtml#c591
So it is a safe assumption from the quantity of lies that you tell, that you have no soul left.

I guess when you lie as much as you do, eventually, you are going to start to believe in your lies.

The rest of us on the other hand, can still see your lies for what they are.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/04161223468/first-french-file-sharer-sentenced-to-disconnection-under-hadopi-judgment-may-be-unenforceable.shtml#c677 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:32:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/04161223468/first-french-file-sharer-sentenced-to-disconnection-under-hadopi-judgment-may-be-unenforceable.shtml#c677 "What a shame that you can't be bothered to defend anything you publish. That says it all about you, unfortunately."

The fact that you feel fully entitled to an author's time and attention says a lot about you. You have an unrealistically high impression of your own worth.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130610/11401523395/japans-prime-minister-mocks-tpp-protestors-facebook.shtml#c16 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:31:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130610/11401523395/japans-prime-minister-mocks-tpp-protestors-facebook.shtml#c16 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130615/17251223497/more-than-half-senate-skips-town-rather-than-attend-briefing-about-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c442 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:29:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130615/17251223497/more-than-half-senate-skips-town-rather-than-attend-briefing-about-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c442 http://ovisarie.com/multiple-sclerosis-b12-deficiency/]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/10465223506/british-intelligence-spied-g20-officials-phone-calls-emails-during-2009-summit.shtml#c260 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:27:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/10465223506/british-intelligence-spied-g20-officials-phone-calls-emails-during-2009-summit.shtml#c260 don't use their products/services.

The fact that you claim that you are still 'being spied on' by them suggests either that you have fallen for the 'Google is everything' lie that the *AA's and several governments have been pushing, or that despite claiming to hate their 'spying' on you, you continue to use their products, like a masochist that just cannot get enough suffering and/or needs something to complain about.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01375623502/retired-federal-judge-explains-why-fisa-court-should-not-be-trusted.shtml#c445 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:25:33 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01375623502/retired-federal-judge-explains-why-fisa-court-should-not-be-trusted.shtml#c445
A rubber-stamp is even more untrustworthy than he implies.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01375623502/retired-federal-judge-explains-why-fisa-court-should-not-be-trusted.shtml#c439 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:22:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01375623502/retired-federal-judge-explains-why-fisa-court-should-not-be-trusted.shtml#c439 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1031 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:21:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1031
It's one or the other folks. We drive over this cliff or jump. I'd say that you can always find a new ride, it just might be a little rougher because I'm pretty sure that I can't fly.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1004 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:14:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1004
Conspiracy theories are brilliant.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/06151423469/philippine-record-labels-get-government-to-play-whack-a-mole-with-kickass-torrents.shtml#c583 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:13:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/06151423469/philippine-record-labels-get-government-to-play-whack-a-mole-with-kickass-torrents.shtml#c583
And yet EVERY dissenting opinion on techdirt IS STILL VIEWABLE.

If you want to complain about censorship complain to the people on your own side that do it]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/10465223506/british-intelligence-spied-g20-officials-phone-calls-emails-during-2009-summit.shtml#c241 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:10:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/10465223506/british-intelligence-spied-g20-officials-phone-calls-emails-during-2009-summit.shtml#c241
It also might provide political cover for a nation that has (theoretically) realized they're getting screwed over on free trade or international IP agreements to, uh, revisit their commitments to such agreements.

Add one more (imaginary) revelation, and the international relations could get pretty complex pretty fast.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c978 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:07:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c978 asses!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/10465223506/british-intelligence-spied-g20-officials-phone-calls-emails-during-2009-summit.shtml#c222 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:06:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/10465223506/british-intelligence-spied-g20-officials-phone-calls-emails-during-2009-summit.shtml#c222 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/06151423469/philippine-record-labels-get-government-to-play-whack-a-mole-with-kickass-torrents.shtml#c569 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:06:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/06151423469/philippine-record-labels-get-government-to-play-whack-a-mole-with-kickass-torrents.shtml#c569 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c973 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:05:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c973
We can arrest them and call them schnookums. "You are my schnookums and you belong in this box with these other people and they can be your friends and they are my schnookums too."

Good times.]]>