http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c448 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:13:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c448 http://brettandshannonscaribbeanwedding.com/view/4812857520965213/31241146

After working as an attorney for 2 years, Brett was diagnosed with Brain Cancer on July 10, 2009. While a devasting set back, he fought through it with Shannon at his side, and, well... now they are getting married in Grenada in April of 2013. As for his health, Brett's condition is stable (i.e. good), and is looking forward to hanging with all of his friends down in Grenada.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c589 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:13:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c589
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander...
...unless the gander has a drone army !

art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c441 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:12:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c441
In this case it is probably a random journo who got the story to write up and he/she just tried to wing it instead of fact-checking. A complete no-go for journalists, but in todays rushed writing where a lot of random people without an education in journalism are far, far better at relaying information.

The media focus on the "news you can relate to" side and questions random people on the street about how they feel about everything and having journalists in the studio to "discuss" the issues instead of using experts! Those are far easier than actually inviting experts, researching stories further than he said/she said and actually bothering to work on a story from a new angle and with a more relevant focus (Random peoples uninformed feelings on a new law can actually make people less informed on the law in question! Glenn Beck ao. are random persons here...).]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c453 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:08:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c453 And just because his name, doesn't make it his.
What about all the other people named Ron Paul? DO they get a piece of the pie?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c103 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:06:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c103 > Sterling considers space travellers who put copyrighted material from Earth on a server reachable from space

Sealand IN SPACE!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c970 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:05:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/17321623162/released-video-silva-beating-shows-his-last-moments-video-actual-beating-still-missing.shtml#c970
]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c437 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:05:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c437 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c78 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:02:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c78
Rendition of David Bowie's Space Oddity...

Here is an older composition on this subject - Intercosmos by NOM (which isn't that widely circulated of course):

http://muzebra.com/l/2o1beqdauzu/nom_-_interkosmos]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12122823187/guy-sues-twitter-taking-away-his-twitter-handle.shtml#c77 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:02:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12122823187/guy-sues-twitter-taking-away-his-twitter-handle.shtml#c77 I might even agree that Twitter could and should handle disputes like this differently, but that doesn't give him any basis at all for a lawsuit.

Make it expensive to handle these disputes this way and they might do it differently.

And seriously, how many Sun Valley businesses' logos don't incorporate a sun somehow?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c427 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:00:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c427



Too fucking bad, now pay up...]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c64 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:59:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c64
Jesus! When everybody becomes an ISP? Or even worse, each of us is the equivalent of Google? Is Hollywood going to try and prevent us from re-remembering what we just saw, what with out digitally enhanced iEyes?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c51 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:58:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c51
When you start the movie/music, you need to select the region codes you are authorized to listen within.

The cost of syncing the spacecraft flight control orbital information with the Macrovision Quality Protection region coding server is to be borne by someone -- anyone else -- except Hollywood.

The $10,000 per pound launch cost of such licensing servers are also not Hollywood's concern.

If you infringe copyright, the detailed logs of what territory you were over when the infringement occurred need to be available (at someone else's expense, of course) in order for Hollywood to know how many jurisdictions to have you extradited to and sued within.

Another module for the licensing server is to keep track of the length of copyright in each territory you pass over. This is an excellent reason why all countries should just standardize on infinite copyright in order to 'simplify' everything.

If anyone on a spacecraft is suspected of infringement, a DMCA notice should be able to quickly and easily cut off all communication between the spacecraft and the ground or any other spacecraft or satellites. If the DMCA notice was in error, a counter notice can be filed when the crew returns to the ground.

I'm sure there are other complex issues that will need to be considered as well. Thank goodness the RIAA and MPAA will be blazing the trail of innovation and helping us to solve these important issues that everyone on planet earth cares so deeply about.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c36 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:56:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c36 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c12 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:53:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c12 > decides to launch into "A Whole New World",
> the rights will need to have been cleared
> with Disney first.

I don't see why. Neither the United States nor any other country have jurisdiction on Mars. Their laws don't apply on Mars. There is *no* copyright law on Mars. Any person who happens to be there is free to do anything they like with any song they like.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c582 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:50:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c582 Confiscate suggests no moral or legal wrong]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c4 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:48:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c4
Ooops, too late.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12122823187/guy-sues-twitter-taking-away-his-twitter-handle.shtml#c74 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:41:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12122823187/guy-sues-twitter-taking-away-his-twitter-handle.shtml#c74 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c566 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:40:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c566 A new thought process seems to be taking hold]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1118 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:34:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1118 of course you pirates don't want to argue on moral grounds because know you lose there

Okay, Blue, I]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c556 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:33:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c556