http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c648 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:19:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c648 .]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/14341223521/google-without-admitting-it-gets-fisa-orders-files-lawsuit-to-challenge-fisa-gag-orders.shtml#c375 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:17:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/14341223521/google-without-admitting-it-gets-fisa-orders-files-lawsuit-to-challenge-fisa-gag-orders.shtml#c375 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01375623502/retired-federal-judge-explains-why-fisa-court-should-not-be-trusted.shtml#c549 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:15:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01375623502/retired-federal-judge-explains-why-fisa-court-should-not-be-trusted.shtml#c549 this or this?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c25 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:14:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c25
As a friend of mine once said when told that he wouldn't be satisfied if he had the world on a string, "Gold string!"]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/12373623425/mpaas-chris-dodd-will-be-chair-free-speech-week.shtml#c1585 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:06:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/12373623425/mpaas-chris-dodd-will-be-chair-free-speech-week.shtml#c1585 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c623 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:05:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c623 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c643 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:05:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c643 I read some of your drivel, and you were wrong.

I'm not from the US and IANAL... But the reason you disagree is that you clearly have your own interpretation of the law... and it is wrong.
Your BS article is all about Kim Dotcom, who at this point has not been served with anything, and almost certainly had nothing to do with any piracy, other than providing the platform on which piracy was performed.
Your argument is about as logical as charging MS or Apple with conspiricy to comit ect. for allowing their OS to connect to the site, or indeed the internet at all.

You don't have to like pirates to see that the law is being played fast and loose for the benefit of hollywood.

The same Safe Harbour exceptions that these AGs want to remove, are the ones that basically mean the case against Kim Dotcom is fairly bogus. You may disagree with the existing safe harbour laws, but at the end of the day it is the current law.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c1663 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:02:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c1663 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c1631 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:59:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c1631 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/14341223521/google-without-admitting-it-gets-fisa-orders-files-lawsuit-to-challenge-fisa-gag-orders.shtml#c358 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:59:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/14341223521/google-without-admitting-it-gets-fisa-orders-files-lawsuit-to-challenge-fisa-gag-orders.shtml#c358
Then the DoJ sends me an NSA order to hand over all my data, which, as part of my business model, I'm obligated to my end-users to keep private. Then they gag me from actually saying that I turned all that data over. Ergo:
~ If I obey the order, I betray my client base.
~ If I refuse the order, I am in contempt of justice.

Yeah, the NSA really fucked over our tech community since we just cannot trust service in US jurisdiction ever again to keep our data private.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c618 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:59:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c618 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1650 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:54:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1650 I'm also against DRM when it's purpose is to try and prevent copying and/or piracy (Something that can't be done).

What other purpose could DRM have?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c584 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:43:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c584 http://prism-break.org/

Pick your poison mate.

There are several options to circumvent even governments.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c571 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:42:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c571 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/00483923515/nsas-lockbox-has-no-lock.shtml#c713 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:34:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/00483923515/nsas-lockbox-has-no-lock.shtml#c713
Mike hates this post so much that he's going out of his way to censor it: http://tr.im/44w44

the next edition will be out very soon.

How hard will he work to hide that from you too?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c852 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:34:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c852
Mike hates this post so much that he's going out of his way to censor it: http://tr.im/44w44

the next edition will be out very soon.

How hard will he work to hide that from you too?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01573323504/senator-lindsey-graham-defends-nsa-surveillance-arguing-about-something-entirely-different.shtml#c675 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:34:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01573323504/senator-lindsey-graham-defends-nsa-surveillance-arguing-about-something-entirely-different.shtml#c675
Mike hates this post so much that he's going out of his way to censor it: http://tr.im/44w44

the next edition will be out very soon.

How hard will he work to hide that from you too?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/16480623431/us-chamber-commerce-bollywood-is-so-successful-without-strong-copyrights-that-it-will-fail-unless-india-strengthens-its.shtml#c622 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:33:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/16480623431/us-chamber-commerce-bollywood-is-so-successful-without-strong-copyrights-that-it-will-fail-unless-india-strengthens-its.shtml#c622
Mike hates this post so much that he's going out of his way to censor it: http://tr.im/44w44

the next edition will be out very soon.

How hard will he work to hide that from you too?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c234 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:32:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c234 After all, stop and frisk is fairly above board, and people still hate it.

Huh? Stop and frisk is above board? Wasn't it just a big racist thing where they would find pot? Didn't it find guns at a lower rate than regular police work?

Was there a typo in that sentence?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1631 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:29:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1631 I guess the point I'm trying to make is if we saw fairer pricing along with the elimination of the used games market (Steam-style) would people still feel as strongly?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reduced prices! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

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