http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130315/11504322340/security-reporter-raided-swat-team-after-someone-put-bogus-911-call.shtml#c213 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:37:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130315/11504322340/security-reporter-raided-swat-team-after-someone-put-bogus-911-call.shtml#c213 Illegal is a sick bird.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130107/11190721597/uk-mobile-operator-3uk-filtering-new-class-mature-content-including-political-satire.shtml#c147 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 04:10:52 PST http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130107/11190721597/uk-mobile-operator-3uk-filtering-new-class-mature-content-including-political-satire.shtml#c147 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121115/20540121071/author-andrew-piper-turning-pages-is-important-therefore-reading-ebooks-isnt-reading.shtml#c418 Sat, 1 Dec 2012 03:34:07 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121115/20540121071/author-andrew-piper-turning-pages-is-important-therefore-reading-ebooks-isnt-reading.shtml#c418 I poked around the other day and found an Ebook of an old childhood favorite, that I didn't have a "real" copy of and sat down with my grandson. Guess what. He leaned into me and the computer and listened as I read that old favorite.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121128/18454921173/justice-department-uses-red-tape-to-delay-release-required-information-domestic-spying-until-well-after-it-matters.shtml#c11 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:33:29 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121128/18454921173/justice-department-uses-red-tape-to-delay-release-required-information-domestic-spying-until-well-after-it-matters.shtml#c11 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20121114/11412221047/homeland-security-spent-430-million-to-tune-its-radios-to-new-frequency-failed.shtml#c91 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:01:24 PST http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20121114/11412221047/homeland-security-spent-430-million-to-tune-its-radios-to-new-frequency-failed.shtml#c91 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121108/15390820976/un-wants-multi-stakeholder-discussions-rethinking-copyright-ignores-that-only-stakeholder-that-matters-is-public.shtml#c1679 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:18:28 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121108/15390820976/un-wants-multi-stakeholder-discussions-rethinking-copyright-ignores-that-only-stakeholder-that-matters-is-public.shtml#c1679 I'm a musician. If I want to record out of copyright music, and I do sometimes I have to figure out if a song is still copyrighted, which is a not trivial exercise and even if I do record music that is out of copyright it is extremely likely that a corporation will claim that it is still there's even when it's not.
Another problem is that, in general, corporations don't die. People do. Even when a corporation dies it's intellectual property is generally sold to another so it's still copyrighted and nothing is going into the public domain.
NOTHING
One more time, even though the corporations aren't really listening. NOTHING
Part of the bargain to allow creators copyright is being violated.
It's not a problem with creators not being compensated. It's a problem of the fact, one more time, it's a fact, that the bargain has been violated by the corporations.
The corporations have NO natural right to perpetual copyright but with their lobbyists and bribes to legislators they have removed the public benefit and with our new global society they are trying to remove that benefit to the entire world.
I know you won't but you corporate apologists should hang your heads in shame but this is your job so you will continue to be corporate lackeys.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120210/14562417734/dailydirt-people-colored.shtml#c72 Fri, 9 Nov 2012 04:08:50 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120210/14562417734/dailydirt-people-colored.shtml#c72 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121030/17393320890/internet-didnt-kill-carly-rae-jepsens-career.shtml#c280 Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:30:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121030/17393320890/internet-didnt-kill-carly-rae-jepsens-career.shtml#c280 I've been a musician for 40 years, never had or even wanted a "hit".
I've had a lot of fun though and I figure that anyone that has made any money at all is pretty lucky.
Just think in 30 years she can join a reunion tour and be nostalgic with a bunch of other one hit wonders.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120303/01062217972/dailydirt-interstellar-travel-to-boldly-go-where-no-one-has-gone-before.shtml#c22 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:33:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120303/01062217972/dailydirt-interstellar-travel-to-boldly-go-where-no-one-has-gone-before.shtml#c22 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120829/10030020208/new-zealand-court-releases-483-million-to-kim-dotcom.shtml#c122 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:42:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120829/10030020208/new-zealand-court-releases-483-million-to-kim-dotcom.shtml#c122 I wonder if they all got laid off in the latest cuts?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20120827/13155920171/paper-suggests-letting-government-use-your-router-emergency.shtml#c53 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:06:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20120827/13155920171/paper-suggests-letting-government-use-your-router-emergency.shtml#c53 Second someone would make use of it to distribute some porn or malware and then it would make the old routers unstable.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120820/11303120102/wilt-chamberlains-family-tries-to-block-film-about-his-college-years-claiming-publicity-rights.shtml#c34 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:58:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120820/11303120102/wilt-chamberlains-family-tries-to-block-film-about-his-college-years-claiming-publicity-rights.shtml#c34 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120727/14251019859/dear-permission-culture-this-is-why-no-one-wants-to-ask-your-ok.shtml#c923 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:21:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120727/14251019859/dear-permission-culture-this-is-why-no-one-wants-to-ask-your-ok.shtml#c923 Then we can start the petitions.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120727/08520119856/riaas-backdoor-plan-using-six-strikes-plan-to-cut-off-internet-access-people.shtml#c390 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:56:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120727/08520119856/riaas-backdoor-plan-using-six-strikes-plan-to-cut-off-internet-access-people.shtml#c390 I saw articles on CNet and such too and these are definitely not Google properties.
Of course we all know that everybody here but you is a pirate, or at least you keep accusing us of it.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20120725/04282819826/if-you-go-to-olympics-you-can-bring-your-iphone-android-phone-you-better-not-tether.shtml#c132 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:32:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20120725/04282819826/if-you-go-to-olympics-you-can-bring-your-iphone-android-phone-you-better-not-tether.shtml#c132 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120710/16365119651/let-judiciary-committee-know-that-creating-mini-sopa-without-public-participation-is-unacceptable.shtml#c365 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:05:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120710/16365119651/let-judiciary-committee-know-that-creating-mini-sopa-without-public-participation-is-unacceptable.shtml#c365 Of course they will probably just take the money from something like the Education Department or EPA that they don't like and the public does rather than actually raise the money.
It's just a stupid idea all around.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120624/20105319452/another-reason-music-industry-wont-be-coming-back-history-music-is-more-about-participation-than-compensation.shtml#c322 Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:49:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120624/20105319452/another-reason-music-industry-wont-be-coming-back-history-music-is-more-about-participation-than-compensation.shtml#c322 Lots of others would like to make a living this way and don't get an opportunity to do so.
We get paid to play. It's as simple as that.

For the past couple of generations some people that weren't performers got lucky to be paid to promote us on recordings but it seems that that is over. This is a good thing.
Now we can make music for our community again and darned if our community isn't the whole world.
How cool is that?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120624/20105319452/another-reason-music-industry-wont-be-coming-back-history-music-is-more-about-participation-than-compensation.shtml#c284 Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:40:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120624/20105319452/another-reason-music-industry-wont-be-coming-back-history-music-is-more-about-participation-than-compensation.shtml#c284 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120615/11345519344/get-ready-political-fight-against-encryption.shtml#c168 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:36:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120615/11345519344/get-ready-political-fight-against-encryption.shtml#c168
The above is sarcasm, just in case you can't tell.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120615/11345519344/get-ready-political-fight-against-encryption.shtml#c137 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:34:19 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120615/11345519344/get-ready-political-fight-against-encryption.shtml#c137
That should be $50,000. $5,000 is small potatoes.]]>