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#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.]]> 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#c371 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:40:48 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#c371 the people being put through all this.

You're the sort of person that would blame the kid punched by the bully for hitting the bully's fist with his eyeball.]]> 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#c361 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:39:35 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#c361
BTW a loopy tour of your excrescence, I mean, blog, reveals that you're always paranoid and raving about Google and the govt. as if they are one and the same while railing against the very spying that the pro-maximalists you claim to support are promoting.

Only a personality as fractured as yours can contract itself so blatantly and so often.]]> 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#c357 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:37:30 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#c357 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#c346 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:37:15 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#c346 That doesn't validate the quality of your comments, however.]]> 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#c322 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:36:59 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#c322
PS - "compulsive yapper", do you realize how much more you embody that moniker?]]> 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#c310 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:36:16 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#c310 Please move along [hyperlink to]]> 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#c301 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:33:45 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#c301 But they may be in the same office or employer.]]> 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#c292 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:33:42 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#c292 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#c289 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:33:00 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#c289
Yeah, there's a basic flaw in that MY content IS interesting or at least provocative and so I somewhat aid Mike. I try to be boring and always get in a dig to offset it.

YOU, however, with your incessant knee-jerk empty yapping at critics, actually only detract from the site! Funny world, ain't it?]]> 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#c273 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:31:36 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#c273 But no, the glorious empire extends its favor even further by not demanding that they pay for the opportunity.
And yet still they continue to give as they also do not also sue those very people.
Does their grace know no bounds? No, it does not.
Hail the Hollywood Empire. Hail!]]>