http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/17274422984/house-judiciary-committee-sets-up-first-hearing-copyright-reform.shtml#c534 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:28:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/17274422984/house-judiciary-committee-sets-up-first-hearing-copyright-reform.shtml#c534 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c121 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:28:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c121 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c105 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:27:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c105
Still, it could get a lot worse. Look at Mike Diana. As part of his probationary sentence, he was ordered to stop drawing altogether - and to submit to random searches and seizures of his drawings and writings throughout his probation.

Hopefully whatever this guy faces won't be nearly so totalitarian.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c96 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:27:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c96 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c766 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:26:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c766 Then the real question is...what is your point in being here?

I'm merely pointing out that Mike hasn't said anything of substance.

He claims that the this group "has written a ridiculous letter with little basis in fact, arguing that this treaty for the blind would be 'casting aside' the 'international copyright infrastructure.'" But then he never actually explains why that's not true. No substance.

He claims that the proposal would "provide extremely limited situations in which copyright restrictions would be limited for the sake of making it easier for vision-impaired people to access works." But he never bothers to back that up textually. No substance.

It's just a bunch of faith-based, conclusory statements. I'm pointing out that he's a total hypocrite when he castigates others for making faith-based assertions because he does the same with alarming frequency. I'm pointing out that the whole point of this article is merely to discredit a group that he disagrees with (despite him not appearing to actually understand the substance of the arguments or counterarguments). It's total bullshit. I'm calling him out for it.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/17274422984/house-judiciary-committee-sets-up-first-hearing-copyright-reform.shtml#c515 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:24:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/17274422984/house-judiciary-committee-sets-up-first-hearing-copyright-reform.shtml#c515 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c76 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:24:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c76
Even though the Bible is full of much sicker stuff.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c69 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:23:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c69
Jesus, your rants just keep getting more and more nonsensical.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c62 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:22:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c62
Or Yaoi writers in general.

Which is sad for me because I like those.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c354 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:21:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c354 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c47 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c47
This is an Assault on our very 1ST Amendment Rights !]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c46 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c46
Mike definitely has a pattern of anti-morality combined with intricate legalisms to get around plain common law. -- Especially in copyright Go ahead and take what you haven't created. If Megaupload doesn't have a US address, then it can outright infringe! -- And don't worry about Google: you've NO right whatsoever to any privacy on the net or in person! Just let mega-corporations do whatever is technically possible, so long as there's no explicit exact statute against it. -- And over all that, Mike is constantly alarmed at what he deems "moral panics".

Mike expects civilization to continue to exist without ANY principles or morality. -- And yet he's always puzzled when gov't and corporate thugs take moral fudging and tecnicalities as an okay for pillaging and flat-out tyranny. Mike refuses to see that private and public morality are connected.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c331 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:19:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c331 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c258 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:18:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c258 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c746 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:18:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c746
No benefit or right is too trivial or too imagined to justify harming everyone else.

THAT is the copyright maximalist mindset.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c724 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:16:17 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c724
Their artistic megalomania is causing harm and they don't care.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c39 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:14:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c39 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c25 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:12:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c25
Translation: it's not obscene if it's several hundred years old.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c329 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:09:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c329 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c722 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:07:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c722
Your "voice of dissent" isn't listened to because nobody respects your opinion on things, so what other reason besides stroking your ego would you be here?]]>