http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c305 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:42:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c305 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c795 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:42:19 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/14372422951/court-finds-fantasy-stories-obscene.shtml#c795 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c731 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:40:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c731 I have, in my 20+ years in fighting against copyright abuse, have never seen a legal use of the DMCA.

You do realize these are only illegal because the law was updated to make them so, right?

Before that, these were all once legal under fair use and, even better, in the public domain since most works were never registered.

If you want to tout about the "legality" of the situation, first realize the law was only put on the books so this abuse could take place.

So, in short: they're all abusing copyright law because they're only valid under the DMCA law.

See how that works?

But you keep telling yourself all this is proof the "pirates" are winning while Hollywood celebrates another $1B movie making success, making it the 10th movie to do so in less than 10 years.

If Hollywood's still claiming piracy is hurting their business and profit loss is the result, then this means even an idiot can see the loss is internal, not external.

I pity your belief, because I know you were part of the Propaganda Machine while you were in school. Don't Mix that Tape, Criminal!

That's precisely why the RIAA targeted you when you were young.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1371 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:40:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1371 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1349 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:38:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1349 They'll use this to pass more laws.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/18051923103/footage-lethal-beating-deleted-seized-phone-sheriff-asks-fbi-to-take-over-investigation.shtml#c1116 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:37:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/18051923103/footage-lethal-beating-deleted-seized-phone-sheriff-asks-fbi-to-take-over-investigation.shtml#c1116
]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c290 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:35:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c290
ahem...
The study already shows they spend more money -

The Top 20% Infringers also spent significantly more across all content types on average than either the Bottom 80% Infringers or the non-infringing consumers.

Generally, the data from the survey showed that as people consumed more infringed files they also consumed more legal files, and spent more on legal content.

Take a look - http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/telecoms-research/online-copyright/deep-dive.pdf]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1328 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:34:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1328
Is it right to kidnap your neighbor because you disagree with his speech?
No, but the State can send costumed men to his house and "detain" him indefinitely.

Is it okay for you to claim your neighbor owes you part of his food whenever he goes shopping? Would it be okay if you wrote it down? Would it be okay if 50 friends agreed?
No, but the State can "tax" him and all of us and you would be okay with it as long as it appeared to have the "majority" of the vote.

Is it correct for you to walk into his yard and punch your neighbor because he looked at you funny?
No, but the State bombs&invades other countries for less.

So, who works for who now?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c992 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:33:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c992
makes sense in Mansicks world.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c980 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:31:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c980 And that is total bullshit for I am not legally obligated either to keep this governments' secrets secret.

Yes, in fact YOU ARE..

also you are NOT legally obligated to acquire said information.

Think of it like illegal drugs, you may not have taken any, but that does not mean having it in your possession is allowed.

You are also not allowed to acquire it, buy it or sell it, own it, keep it, or use it.

Or have it on any property that is in your responsibility.
It does not even matter if you know it is there, if it for example found in your car, and it's your car, you are responsible and liable.

Same with classified information.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c956 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:23:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c956 Room 641A is located in the SBC Communications building at 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco, three floors of which were occupied by AT&T before SBC purchased AT&T.[1] The room was referred to in internal AT&T documents as the SG3 [Study Group 3] Secure Room. It is fed by fiber optic lines from beam splitters installed in fiber optic trunks carrying Internet backbone traffic[3] and, as analyzed by J. Scott Marcus, a former CTO for GTE and a former adviser to the FCC, has access to all Internet traffic that passes through the building, and therefore "the capability to enable surveillance and analysis of internet content on a massive scale, including both overseas and purely domestic traffic."[4] Former director of the NSA]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c952 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:21:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c952 One method of interception is to place equipment at locations where fiber optic communications are switched. For the Internet, much of the switching occurs at relatively few sites. There have been reports of one such intercept site, Room 641A, in the United States.

so they just tap into the fibre feeds and TAKE EVERYTHING.. including Goolag]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c931 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:21:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c931 steganography are better. Hide the message in plain site.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1303 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:20:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1303 Both movements are fighting a common enemy: The merger of big-government and big-business (pretty much the definition of corruption).]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c918 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:18:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c918
this show you have NO understanding of the internet, childlike or not.

If you believe NSA who scoops up EVERYTHING on the internet, including google and facebug then you are dreaming.

NSA simple splices the data feed into ALL the major hubs and servers, and reads EVERYTHING, dumps it all into the farms of supercomputers and do word and pattern searches.

Email, Warcraft, Google, WWW, whatever information that passes over the internet in packet form (EVERYTHING) is simply copied on mass, and searched.

Get over it, it's been there for years, just about as long as the internet itself.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c80 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:14:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c80 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c71 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:13:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c71 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c894 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:10:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c894 Step out of line, and YOU could be next."

A good message to send too, I would say.

If by stepping out of line you mean breaking the law..]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c872 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:09:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c872
WOW,, amazing, they only suspect someone of a crime AFTER that crime has been committed !!!!! OMFG..... !!!!!!!

Next time, THINK before you talk.. far less people will think you are a moron then.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130313/10343422312/rejection-pirate-bay-founders-appeal-sets-dangerous-precedent-liability-free-expression.shtml#c1578 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:05:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130313/10343422312/rejection-pirate-bay-founders-appeal-sets-dangerous-precedent-liability-free-expression.shtml#c1578