http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c666 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:57:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c666 I'm the gay one.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c340 Sun, 19 May 2013 00:41:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c340 North is Up after all...]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c320 Sun, 19 May 2013 00:40:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c320
What fucking planet are you from, and can we take up a collection to send you back?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c111 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:55:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c111
I'm happy for once I beat you to a prize, I got my posts of the week before you got yours. :)
Of course you still have more mentions by Judges in footnotes than I do...

With all of the recent stories, some crossing over the barriers between interest groups, it is nice to see that there is more notice being paid to copyright and the extra rights the monopoly holders demand everyone else give up to protect imaginary profits.
With Steele/Pretenda getting much wider coverage than ever before, I think people are finally cluing into the idea that the system might actually be flawed and the cries of but piracy are just a nice smokescreen to hide the cartel membership not wanting to adapt to the current market.

As always it is a joy to 'see' you... looking forward to Monday...]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16365623113/court-dumps-prendas-subpoena.shtml#c264 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:41:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16365623113/court-dumps-prendas-subpoena.shtml#c264
This subpoena request was an attempt to obtain the name of the blogger 'Die Troll Die'.
DTD runs the blog DieTrollDie.com where Copyright Trolls get exposed.
They also sought the name of 'Sophisticated Jane Doe', but the registrar was different and much less US based.
This was the 3rd(?) failure in this case to unmask anonymous posters/commentators and just visitors to the 2 blogs.

They contend that me calling them a half step up from Nigerian Scammers was defaming them, I think I gave them to much credit.

This was about trying to discredit those people who were calling out Pretenda et al. (they've had so many names past, present, and future) as evil people out to sully the name of these fine upstanding lawyers who were protecting pornographers.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/12483923107/nz-supreme-court-will-review-kim-dotcoms-extradition-case.shtml#c713 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:04:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/12483923107/nz-supreme-court-will-review-kim-dotcoms-extradition-case.shtml#c713 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16365623113/court-dumps-prendas-subpoena.shtml#c241 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:03:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16365623113/court-dumps-prendas-subpoena.shtml#c241
filing documents by misleading court workers comes to mind.
And money is due soon...
And everyones favorite RIAA shill is hopefully getting bench slapped by the appeals court after picking Prenda over the law...

So one has to wonder if Prenda et al, still think trying to silence the critics was a good plan. It seems to have backfired on them, gotten more people looking at what they were doing, and much more coverage of their dockets... there is a name for that... what is that effect again? :D]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c681 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:55:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c681 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c670 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:54:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/02413623115/bogus-lawsuit-plus-threats-to-those-who-write-about-it-leads-to-epic-response.shtml#c670
Programming for them shouldn't be that hard, more than once the players have showed them where the code is broken and how to fix it.

I'd say more stuff, but then I'd be breaking walls between nyms and end up outing myself.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/10363322853/make-art-not-law.shtml#c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:42:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130426/10363322853/make-art-not-law.shtml#c9
Thank you for being one of those people willing question the old methods and models and try something new.

Oh and imagine my surprise seeing a game with your name on it in my meatspace travels. You keep turning up. :) Its a good thing.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/17254423102/eric-holder-claims-terrorists-are-involved-ip-theft.shtml#c1213 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:06:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/17254423102/eric-holder-claims-terrorists-are-involved-ip-theft.shtml#c1213 He is uninformed and has consistently mislead Congress about things happening on his watch.
His actions have a body count, and nothing has happened.
Some IRS workers get overly zealous and we need 4 hearings, many firing and demands of jailtime from our leaders... but the man in charge of Justice in this country perverts the course of it and they say nothing. They try to shift the blame onto the President because they need to win political hearts and minds... how about we stop the whole left right bullshit and fix the country instead of scoring soundbites.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/01431623057/appeal-over-former-riaa-lobbyist-judge-allowing-prenda-to-get-info-over-1000-john-does-moves-forward.shtml#c449 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:03:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/01431623057/appeal-over-former-riaa-lobbyist-judge-allowing-prenda-to-get-info-over-1000-john-does-moves-forward.shtml#c449 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/01431623057/appeal-over-former-riaa-lobbyist-judge-allowing-prenda-to-get-info-over-1000-john-does-moves-forward.shtml#c443 Thu, 16 May 2013 21:02:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/01431623057/appeal-over-former-riaa-lobbyist-judge-allowing-prenda-to-get-info-over-1000-john-does-moves-forward.shtml#c443 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/12483923107/nz-supreme-court-will-review-kim-dotcoms-extradition-case.shtml#c87 Thu, 16 May 2013 20:58:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/12483923107/nz-supreme-court-will-review-kim-dotcoms-extradition-case.shtml#c87
If your breaking more laws than the people your pursing, doesn't that make you the bad guys?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/07262023094/restaurant-facebook-goes-nuclear-facebook-over-reviews-gordon-ramsay-owner-cry-hack.shtml#c604 Wed, 15 May 2013 20:21:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/07262023094/restaurant-facebook-goes-nuclear-facebook-over-reviews-gordon-ramsay-owner-cry-hack.shtml#c604 Seemed to miss the larger picture and was totally focused on making it all about her.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/15163123086/did-paul-duffys-wife-admit-that-duffy-was-engaged-interstate-extortion-facebook.shtml#c713 Wed, 15 May 2013 20:18:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/15163123086/did-paul-duffys-wife-admit-that-duffy-was-engaged-interstate-extortion-facebook.shtml#c713 It would be nice to see her caught up in all of this and have to face the brutal reality of what her husband and his buddies have been up to, and experience more suffering than her tweet about having misplaced her cars high end tire iron.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/14114123098/center-copyright-information-loses-company-status-not-supposed-to-conduct-business-us.shtml#c25 Wed, 15 May 2013 20:13:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/14114123098/center-copyright-information-loses-company-status-not-supposed-to-conduct-business-us.shtml#c25
They never produced the review of the review by Stroz.
They never addressed the serious issues of Dtecnet's absolute failure of valid DMCA notices.
Corporate law need only heed itself after all.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130511/17253823048/uss-cyberwar-strategy-making-public-less-secure-name-security.shtml#c287 Tue, 14 May 2013 17:22:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130511/17253823048/uss-cyberwar-strategy-making-public-less-secure-name-security.shtml#c287
We decry these actions taken by other nations because they are dictators, except we have been shredding our citizens rights so our leaders can behave like those dictators.

So focused on "winning" we ignore that the thing we are protecting has been the first casualty.

More concerned with keeping contractors fat and happy we sacrifice the citizens rights, and those citizens are so brainwashed by soundbites they willingly accept the slide away from freedom.

People willingly accept 'collateral damage' as acceptable to hunt terrorists, ignoring we are killing innocent people to obtain our goals... just like how terrorists operate.

The only difference is we have a flag, and some words on a piece of paper we stopped understanding a long time ago.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/01371723077/saudi-arabian-telco-asks-pro-privacy-researcher-to-help-them-spy-citizens-hilarity-then-seriousness-ensues.shtml#c103 Tue, 14 May 2013 17:14:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/01371723077/saudi-arabian-telco-asks-pro-privacy-researcher-to-help-them-spy-citizens-hilarity-then-seriousness-ensues.shtml#c103 It is to fucking hard to tell which team is which anymore.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/18341622994/cispa-sponsor-mike-rogers-may-go-to-lead-fbi.shtml#c157 Tue, 14 May 2013 17:12:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/18341622994/cispa-sponsor-mike-rogers-may-go-to-lead-fbi.shtml#c157