http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c444 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:14:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c444 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c346 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:14:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c346 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c1103 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:14:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c1103
People in glass houses .....]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c159 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:13:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c159
Oh yeah, they are.

Hell though, if it was really videogame related they'd be piloting remote controlled vehicles all over the middle East and killing people whilst sitting safely in a shed in some backwater piece of some redneck state and complaining about the PTSD they suffer for it.

Oh...]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/06201422976/chicago-blackhawks-fire-reporter-over-silly-old-youtube-videos.shtml#c470 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:13:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/06201422976/chicago-blackhawks-fire-reporter-over-silly-old-youtube-videos.shtml#c470 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c152 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:10:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c152 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c778 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:10:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c778 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c150 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:09:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c150 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c834 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:09:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c834
First, there is no category in the law of "obscene" versus "really really disgustingly obscene". It's either obscene or not. Once this precedent stands, then *ANY* material that offends the community standards of Lower Podunk, Georgia is grounds for the same prosecution in that jurisdiction. They just found a slam-dunk test case that guarantees a conviction. Now, Fifty Shades or Tropic of Cancer are fair game.

Next - where's the crime. If the material was composed, uploaded, and stored outside the state, in which way is the author or web site responsible? That blame belongs to the person who initiated and committed the act of transporting that data by downloading it from outside the jurisdiction? Since the author had no control (presumably) over how the web site operates, then the total responsibility belongs to the website if they permit inadvertent (i.e. non-deliberate) downloads.

Finally, the law has to be sorted out so that a person cannot be held accountable somewhere where they have not set foot and did not deliberately, specifically target. If I live in New York and you make Widgets in LA, I cannot travel to Witchita to buy one, solely to sue you there. (Although if it's a patent, apparently I can hire someone to sue for me in Texas.)

With prosecutions like Kim Dotcom, we see the USA applying (what a polite word for arm-twisting) its standards to people who have never even set foot in the USA. The Americans could have saved them and their toadies a lot of embarrassment by simply using rendition, if they think these are digital terrorists...

If they couldn't convict McCoy where he lives, maybe there's a moral in that fact. If the court could not convict someone in the jurisdiction where the substantial part of the act - creating the obscenity or hosting it - was done, there's a moral about free speech in there somewhere.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c134 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:08:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c134 hate actually reading the articles, so I'll have a good understanding of what has been said and can come up with comments relevant to the article, before posting.

Much easier to just imagine what you think or want the articles to say, and post accordingly, as it's a huge time and thought saver.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c132 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:08:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c132 So, just like techdirt's general tone of criticising those who attempt to profit from the blind wielding of IP enforcement he is again criticising those who attempt to profit from actions that are fully legal. The man is against profit except his and techdirt's own accepted means of making profit which is some kind of liberal nonsense about providing good things that people actually want at a reasonable price.

Pirates ... Pshaw]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c434 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:07:19 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/18383623114/your-word-against-ours-how-fbis-no-electronic-recording-policy-rigs-game-destroys-its-credibility.shtml#c434 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c127 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:06:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c127
Iraq: A War of Aggression. No WMDs, No Connection to Al Qaeda

http://www.globalresearch.ca/iraq-a-war-of-aggression-no-wmds-no-connection-to-al-qaeda/5327548

'"Operation Iraqi Freedom" unleashed a tragedy of immense proportion. More than 3,000 American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed. Close to 7,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in July and August 2006 alone. In October 2006, the British medical journal the Lancet published a study conducted by Iraqi physicians with oversight by epidemiologists at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study estimated that 655,000 Iraqi civilians had died since Bush invaded Iraq in March 2003.

Loss of life isn]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c110 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:06:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c110
I am so sick of our scapegoating society.

Immigrants and unemployed blamed for government deficits - bullshit.
Violent video games blamed for real world violence - double bullshit.
Current governments blaming previous governments for the 'problems they left behind' - infinity bullshit.

It is time for politicians, corporations and the general public to step up and take responsibility for their own failings.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c88 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:05:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c88
War of course is nothing more than a 3D game people play similar in some aspects to the electronic version with real consequences.

(If this is not understood read "Games People Play" by Eric Berne.)

For normal people violent games are simply a game; for a small minority of nut cases they are training for mayhem which no rational person can comprehend.

The basic problem here is not the game or the guns used in the game but the nut cases that play the game.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c826 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:04:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c826 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c818 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:03:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c818
Sex and violence abounds in scipture.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c75 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:02:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/13573923121/retired-lt-col-violent-media-has-bred-generation-killers.shtml#c75 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c756 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:00:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c756 The penalties get paid to the person or persons they filed the bogus takedown notice against.

Oh, and it must be one strike, you lose all your copyrights, and immediate return to public domain, never to be allowed to be copyrighted again.

That seems appropriate. :)]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c24 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:57:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/18345423136/doj-dept-education-to-colleges-start-restricting-free-speech-campus-kiss-your-federal-funding-goodbye.shtml#c24