http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c396 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:25:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c396
We already have a guideline in the U.S. It's called the First Amendment.

What they're label as secret these days is doubly absurd.

It is no secret that every human has the same capacity for egregious error and moral turpitude. It has nothing to do with national security.

Opinion polls have nothing to do with national security.

Accountability as applied to our leaders has nothing to do with national security... with the exception of the fact that if we make accountability an impossibility, there is no national security.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18284623180/yet-another-anti-patent-troll-bill-introduced-congress.shtml#c120 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:23:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18284623180/yet-another-anti-patent-troll-bill-introduced-congress.shtml#c120 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c191 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:22:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c191 There is very little good in that Party and a World of Badness for the Common Man and most of all for the Nation as a whole.
Ron Paul is a sham.So is his son Rand Paul who Supports those Tax Loopholes like that ole Double Irish stuff, ETC.

Ron Paul even screws his own fans over.............LOL
At one time he wrote Bigot Anti-Semitic Stuff.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01434213446/dailydirt-tuition-debt-is-chumps.shtml#c251 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:11:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01434213446/dailydirt-tuition-debt-is-chumps.shtml#c251 need a college degree.

Unfortunately, most people are not that clever.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c376 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:10:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c376 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c184 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:09:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c184 Ricky D]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c172 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:09:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c172 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1107 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:07:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18103323179/filmmaker-behind-pirate-bay-documentary-says-bogus-dmca-takedowns-take-away-his-free-speech.shtml#c1107 They do not answer sensitive questions that would obliterate their weak trolling arguments.

The answer is an arbitrary combination of the following:
- They're getting paid to troll TD
- They're bored kids trolling for their amusement
- They hate TD/Mike passionately, so attack TD even if they know they're wrong.
- Believe in what they trot out, because.. well because they're just that fuckin' stupid]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/16293623190/district-attorney-major-tv-network-sued-over-stupid-reality-show.shtml#c164 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:03:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/16293623190/district-attorney-major-tv-network-sued-over-stupid-reality-show.shtml#c164
It's also been ruled that lawyers/etc can't work for free for a campaign doing their skilled work they charged $40+ dollars an hour to anyone else, as that's also 'gift' to the campaign.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18284623180/yet-another-anti-patent-troll-bill-introduced-congress.shtml#c99 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:02:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/18284623180/yet-another-anti-patent-troll-bill-introduced-congress.shtml#c99
Cornyn, like you, has been severely duped or severely bought.

Nuts! These are dissemblings of large multinational invention thieves and their paid puppets.

]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c353 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:01:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c353 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c337 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:59:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c337 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c163 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:58:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/15495123189/ron-paul-doesnt-win-ronpaulcom-is-guilty-reverse-domain-hijacking.shtml#c163 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c432 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:56:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02350923170/new-bill-would-stop-patent-trolls-hiding-behind-shell-companies.shtml#c432 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c8 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:52:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c8 say they want.

Hear me out here.

Since no one but the copyright holder can know what is and is not authorized, but they want everyone to take down content that even might be infringing anyway, that would mean that everything would have to be taken down.

Links to potential download sites? Gone.
Reviews/previews, whether text or video? Gone.
Trailers/articles for upcoming or past movies/albums? Gone.
Sites that sell their products and aren't run directly(so no sellers like Apple/Amazon) by them? Gone.

And even those sites that had explicit permission to host/sell those things, as soon as they got a single claim that they might be infringing, would be forced to take the content down, just in case, and if they wanted to put it back up they would have to provide solid evidence that they were authorized, only to have to do the same thing for each and every claim.

After all, as they are always saying, better to err on the side of caution when dealing with potential copyright infringement, and no collateral damage is too high.

I think if they had their presence(and profits) on the net essentially disappear overnight it wouldn't take too long before they'd start thinking that maybe a more moderate approach would be a good thing to consider after all.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/11301723178/amazon-wants-to-sell-fan-fiction-with-it-originator-fanfic-author-all-sharing-profits.shtml#c611 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:50:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/11301723178/amazon-wants-to-sell-fan-fiction-with-it-originator-fanfic-author-all-sharing-profits.shtml#c611
You keep waiting for the Pirate Party or "the movement" to come to your rescue. Long before that happens I imagine you'll be living under an overpass eating dog food out of a can.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/10255023186/vermont-declares-war-patent-trolls-passes-new-law-sues-notorious-patent-troll.shtml#c150 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:49:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/10255023186/vermont-declares-war-patent-trolls-passes-new-law-sues-notorious-patent-troll.shtml#c150
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If this was a case of over enthusiastic lawyers then this is a tiny bit better, but still disappointing.

Glad this stupidity got slapped down.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c323 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:46:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/18225323199/president-obama-is-troubled-about-chilling-effects-his-own-administration-is-causing-to-journalism.shtml#c323