http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121006/10153520628/time-warner-cable-suddenly-forced-to-compete-kansas-city-complains-google-has-unfair-advantage.shtml#c1543 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:42:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121006/10153520628/time-warner-cable-suddenly-forced-to-compete-kansas-city-complains-google-has-unfair-advantage.shtml#c1543 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c871 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:41:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/10230323518/nsa-claims-surveillance-programs-aided-stopping-50-attacks-details-lacking.shtml#c871 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c55 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:40:33 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c55
Used to be that way here, too. But that era is over for us.

"Intellectual property" is a valid notion even though the now predatory Born Rich are using it for obvious evil. Your arguments are basically futile from the start because The Rich control every market and entire economy, are almost to the point of "privatizing" basic public properties such as roads and water. Existing monopolies are THE major point, so overwhelming in degree that carping about small pieces of the societal milieu is just stupid. You're here nearly every weekday, minion, complaining about what The Rich do, without apparently ever grasping the central fact.

Adam Smith is no longer relevant: in the stage of capitalism here the "invisible hand" is totally visible, and it's a mailed fist. We need revolutionaries who see the big picture, not another "report is a valuable contribution" blah blah, "debates" going nowhere.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c41 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:39:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130611/09013223404/wipo-intellectual-monopolies-not-needed-innovation-informal-economy.shtml#c41 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c671 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:27:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130618/11332223519/states-attorneys-general-want-to-special-exception-to-blame-sites-actions-users.shtml#c671 actually censored this guy advertising his whatever.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/10465223506/british-intelligence-spied-g20-officials-phone-calls-emails-during-2009-summit.shtml#c560 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:21:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/10465223506/british-intelligence-spied-g20-officials-phone-calls-emails-during-2009-summit.shtml#c560 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c649 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:19:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c649 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.]]>