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(If you haven't seen "The Purge" yet, you should. Good movie.)]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c494 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:13:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c494 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c487 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:11:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c487 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c838 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:09:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c838 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c831 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:09:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c831
Far more likely that such a surveillance program would embolden a dictatorship like Hitler's rather than have prevented it.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c820 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:07:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c820 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c386 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:05:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c386
death to facebook!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1617 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:04:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1617
Then why is this any different for video games? Yes, the developers don't get money from used game sales, but neither does Ford when someone buys a used car. Newsflash: the original company already got their money when they first sold the product.

Here's a much better example: comic books. Does DC Comics try to get a cut of the sale of Action Comics #1 when it sold for over a million dollars at auction? No, because someone somewhere bought it from DC (then National) at a newstand in 1938.
Or another example: many comic books from the 1990's are being sold for less than cover price. Is DC getting upset because 1) they're not getting a cut of these sales and 2) people are buying these comics instead of new comics?

Why are companies complaining when, like many posters are saying, people sell the game for less than they paid for it? Why does the company think it should get a cut of a $40 sale at Gamestop instead on top of the $60 the customer paid when he originally bought it?
Basically, the main issue is one that TechDirt talks about over and over: make a better product at a reasonable price and people will buy.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/16480623431/us-chamber-commerce-bollywood-is-so-successful-without-strong-copyrights-that-it-will-fail-unless-india-strengthens-its.shtml#c552 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:01:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/16480623431/us-chamber-commerce-bollywood-is-so-successful-without-strong-copyrights-that-it-will-fail-unless-india-strengthens-its.shtml#c552
Obviously they're doing things all wrong.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c373 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:59:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c373
That would be the asshat ag from NY, every NY ag is an asshat.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c362 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:58:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c362 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c343 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:56:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c343
If the above is such common sense then why does it not apply to the manufacturers and retailers of firearms?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c322 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:51:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c322 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100419/1041349077/dailydirt-augmented-vision.shtml#c20 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:48:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100419/1041349077/dailydirt-augmented-vision.shtml#c20 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c299 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:44:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c299 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c482 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:43:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c482
Big time. Why do you think both Abraham Lincoln and JFK were assassinated?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/14341223521/google-without-admitting-it-gets-fisa-orders-files-lawsuit-to-challenge-fisa-gag-orders.shtml#c279 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:41:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/14341223521/google-without-admitting-it-gets-fisa-orders-files-lawsuit-to-challenge-fisa-gag-orders.shtml#c279
While the criticism may be warrented it still needs some clarification of extend, broadness and exactness. Untill then, stick to the broad strokes when criticising and be careful about demonising politician-speak. Often you can analyse what the politician say too much and come to the wrong conclusion.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1546 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:32:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/02053123505/dick-cheneys-crystal-ball-says-that-nsa-surveillance-could-have-stopped-911.shtml#c1546
Does he say whether it would have stopped him from outing Valerie Plame too?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c277 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:31:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c277
Realize that makes any web site subject to all country and state laws anywhere in the world and you will begin to understand the idiocy of US law.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/14341223521/google-without-admitting-it-gets-fisa-orders-files-lawsuit-to-challenge-fisa-gag-orders.shtml#c272 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:28:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/14341223521/google-without-admitting-it-gets-fisa-orders-files-lawsuit-to-challenge-fisa-gag-orders.shtml#c272