http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c534 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:12:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c534
You are pathetic. You can't refute the arguments so, instead, you turn to personal attacks, ad hominems, and trying to kill the messenger to stop the message. Yeah, your content is compelling as eating raw tripe with live insects.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/12373623425/mpaas-chris-dodd-will-be-chair-free-speech-week.shtml#c1638 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:11:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/12373623425/mpaas-chris-dodd-will-be-chair-free-speech-week.shtml#c1638 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130606/11475923344/sweden-makes-it-illegal-to-take-photos-private-environments-without-permission.shtml#c46 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:08:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130606/11475923344/sweden-makes-it-illegal-to-take-photos-private-environments-without-permission.shtml#c46 1. What problem does this law need to solve?
2. How is this possibly going to solve it?
3. Aren't there alternatives that are less likely to cause collateral damage and if not, is solving the problem of #1 worth the damage?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c512 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:08:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c512 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130606/11475923344/sweden-makes-it-illegal-to-take-photos-private-environments-without-permission.shtml#c39 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:08:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130606/11475923344/sweden-makes-it-illegal-to-take-photos-private-environments-without-permission.shtml#c39 it's statement by adult society of what behavior is acceptable.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c3133 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:07:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c3133 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c499 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:06:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c499 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c486 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:05:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c486
grrr... can read them. Stupid distractions at work while arguing with an idiot!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130606/11475923344/sweden-makes-it-illegal-to-take-photos-private-environments-without-permission.shtml#c34 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:04:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130606/11475923344/sweden-makes-it-illegal-to-take-photos-private-environments-without-permission.shtml#c34
thanks to the NSA we know nothing is private. Feel free to snap away.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c475 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:03:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c475
I'd also like to clarify whether he's saying those of us that write for the site are unpaid, or if he's referring to comments....]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c471 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:00:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c471 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c468 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:57:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c468 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c439 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:55:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c439 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121006/10153520628/time-warner-cable-suddenly-forced-to-compete-kansas-city-complains-google-has-unfair-advantage.shtml#c1545 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:54:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121006/10153520628/time-warner-cable-suddenly-forced-to-compete-kansas-city-complains-google-has-unfair-advantage.shtml#c1545 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c428 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:54:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c428
Citation needed.

"because there's nothing here one hasn't already read on other sites"

This is not a primary news source. It's a blog set up to discuss issues reported elsewhere and to attempt to generate conversation when it's not being derailed by braying morons. In other words, of course you won't read the news stories elsewhere, because breaking news is not the purpose of the site.

Are you really so stupid that you haven't even worked out the nature of the site you obsessively comment upon?

"HE blithely exploits the minions"

Nobody's being exploited, unlike Fox's staff. If you're so upset by people not being paid, why are you here so gleefully providing content for free?

(btw, citation required for the fact that they're not getting paid, not to mention any exploitation or deception on TD's part. I suspect none of these exist anywhere except whatever orifice you usually pull your arguments from)]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c420 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:48:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c420
Mike was born into the privileged 1%, is an Ivy League educated klepto-economist, and consistently anti-labor, so of course he thinks "laws against unpaid internships are kind of silly". He's a hypocrite because has unpaid minions to re-write stories here.

Like all his opinions, Mike never comes out and directly says, you have to ferret it out over time. So if new here, this is not the anti-plutocrat site you're looking for, Mike is as always only using this story to attack copyright indirectly.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c406 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:47:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c406 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c399 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:46:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c399 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/00503223401/public-outcry-taiwan-kills-their-version-sopa.shtml#c99 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:44:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130611/00503223401/public-outcry-taiwan-kills-their-version-sopa.shtml#c99 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c380 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:42:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/01121423439/hollywood-studios-keep-saying-its-employees-must-get-paid-now-may-be-forced-to-pay-its-interns.shtml#c380
Fantastic, now we've got all that cleared up.]]>