Latest Techdirt Comments http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/10401723156/if-you-think-you-should-actually-own-products-you-bought-now-would-be-good-time-to-call-congress.shtml#c22 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:02:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/10401723156/if-you-think-you-should-actually-own-products-you-bought-now-would-be-good-time-to-call-congress.shtml#c22
Waste of time. I have zero faith in a Congress that can't even take the time to fix the problems which made the DMCA an issue to begin with.

We don't need new laws. We need the existing laws corrected.

And obviously, my calls to my (Ind) senators have done nothing to make this happen.

Do that, instead of supporting this law, please.

Tell Congress to fix what they broke in the first place.]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c256 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:02:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c256 Higher standards http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c602 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:01:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c602 Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c234 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:01:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c234 Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c269 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:59:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c269
There was never purported to be one, at least in the UK version.]]> Re: This is progress http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c985 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:57:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c985 Re: Re: Re: Recording http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c513 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:55:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c513
Bottom line. When dealing with the FBI or the police. Shut up. Shut. Up. Just shut up...until your lawyer arrives.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c268 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:54:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c268 Re: No more Fox for me... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c267 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:54:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c267 Re: Re: Re: Yet again, Mike can't find a lower bound. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951.shtml#c986 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:53:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951.shtml#c986 "Free speech is like pretty much every other right, your rights end where mine start."
That's right. Your right to live in a world devoid of stuff that offends you ends at the exact spot where my right to free speech begins. You always have the option not to look at stuff that offends you.

... it's one of the area of the law based a little more on morals ...

The law has no business regulating morality.

Anyway, no matter what, your free speech rights are not unlimited. That's a fact.

It's a legal fact. It's also debatable whether obscenity should be one of the limits imposed on speech.]]> Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c244 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:53:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/01321523153/kitchen-nightmares-lawyers-threaten-infamous-samy-amy-if-they-talk-about-their-experience-show.shtml#c244 I don't know about Kitchen Nightmares, but Hell's Kitchen IS a bunch of out of work actors and family/friends of people on the staff. There is no actual Hell's Kitchen restaurant, it's just part of a TV recording studio.

That's why some of them seem like they're there just to make a big enough fuss to get themselves on TV, because they are.

I've always thought this was true. It's like they raid the out-of-work (or over-aged) modeling agencies in LA.]]> Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c577 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:53:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c577 overwriting the memory isn't necessarily that difficult.
You're going to have a hard time overwriting storage without leaving some traces in a subsequent dump.

Even if the video itself is not recoverable, there should be some evidence there.]]> Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: HEY, TIMMY, don't forget the illegal WARS: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c929 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:52:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c929
Just as a sidebar, there is no such thing as an allowed nuclear state.

The NPT has two types of signatories, states with nuclear weapons who are promising to disarm and states without nuclear weapons who are promising not to develop nuclear weapons. The only nuclear related thing "allowed" to states is that every signatory nation is "allowed" to develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes, although US interpretation of that is, as is generally the case in their foreign relations, unless we don't like you.]]> Re: Meanwhile, in DC.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c568 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:52:19 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c568
This data should be retained for a minimum of 2 years and any person involved in any type of incident with the officer should be able to request copies of any of the records. And not just the ones they are involved with, any, in order to establish typical behavior of the person.

Additionally, if we are talking about a person that has to the ability to arrest someone, then a complete unedited copy of the the arrest must be submitted with the arrest. Failure to comply is an automatic acquittal for the arrestee and an automatic 30 day suspension (without pay) for the arresting person(s). And the punishment should increase if it continues until they are eventually terminated and put onto a list that prevents them from being employed an in position that allows them to arrest ever again.

Harsh and invasive? Yes, but that is because it just doesn't seem like you can really trust any of these people any longer. Maybe you never could and technology has just awoken the public, but I certainly do not feel like these are the groups that I was taught to always respect and trust as a child.]]> Re: Re: Re: TIL... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c223 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:52:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/01450023148/makers-nutella-force-fan-who-created-world-nutella-day-to-shut-it-down.shtml#c223 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c971 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:46:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c971 Re: Not quite right... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951.shtml#c973 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:44:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951.shtml#c973

To each his own...]]> Re: Re: Re: Re: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c567 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:42:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c567
The phone should have never been forcefully seized before the person had a chance to make the information available to the press. For this alone the cops should be assumed guilty and they should be punished as if they were guilty of whatever it was the footage allegedly conceals. Police need to know that concealing evidence is no laughing matter and that they will be severely punished even if they are only found to have done something suspicious that suggests they may have concealed evidence. They should avoid doing suspicious activity like this altogether.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951.shtml#c951 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:41:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951.shtml#c951 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c565 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:40:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/19190923142/if-youre-going-to-illegally-seize-citizens-cell-phones-least-make-sure-youre-grabbing-right-ones.shtml#c565 If you feel sorry for the officers who aren't complete twats, then maybe you should think about that as long as they let their colleagues get away with this behavior, they are themselves part of the problem and deserves to be questioned... even by a bitch.]]>