http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/12483923107/nz-supreme-court-will-review-kim-dotcoms-extradition-case.shtml#c452 Fri, 17 May 2013 06:09:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/12483923107/nz-supreme-court-will-review-kim-dotcoms-extradition-case.shtml#c452 ...as soon as he sets foot anywhere with an extradition treaty with the US, he will get bagged, gagged, and tagged with a one way ticket to the US.

Anywhere with an extradition treaty with the US, just like NZ. What makes you think things would happen any differently in another country. The US's case isn't going to suddenly change from laughably weak to extradition-worthy overnight.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/17254423102/eric-holder-claims-terrorists-are-involved-ip-theft.shtml#c1392 Fri, 17 May 2013 05:56:12 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/17254423102/eric-holder-claims-terrorists-are-involved-ip-theft.shtml#c1392 "So, not only are you an immoral scumbag, you're a lying immoral scumbag."

Does this mean his training as a lawyer is complete?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/15163123086/did-paul-duffys-wife-admit-that-duffy-was-engaged-interstate-extortion-facebook.shtml#c691 Wed, 15 May 2013 17:11:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/15163123086/did-paul-duffys-wife-admit-that-duffy-was-engaged-interstate-extortion-facebook.shtml#c691 "Just because Prenda is horrible doesn't mean that Mike is right on this or his other rants."

There is nothing funnier than watching someone, you in particular, trying and failing to burn someone with completely incorrect info.

I wonder what your definition of schadenfreude is?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/11270823061/once-again-top-downloaders-are-top-spenders-according-to-uk-govt-study.shtml#c1176 Wed, 15 May 2013 03:12:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/11270823061/once-again-top-downloaders-are-top-spenders-according-to-uk-govt-study.shtml#c1176 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130509/01272923016/key-legal-fight-shaping-up-over-legality-dmca-abuses.shtml#c361 Fri, 10 May 2013 15:49:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130509/01272923016/key-legal-fight-shaping-up-over-legality-dmca-abuses.shtml#c361 "I didn't claim that, so I am not sure what you feel you corrected. I stated only that "512(f) is there specifically to handle people claiming to hold copyright on something they do not own", but that does not limit to ONLY that purpose."

Actually that's exactly how your comment reads. If that's not what you meant you shouldn't have used the word 'specifically'. In this context it is indeed a limiting statement.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/18512622997/blogger-issues-dmca-notice-to-take-down-posts-infringing-his-how-to-infringe-post.shtml#c531 Fri, 10 May 2013 15:37:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/18512622997/blogger-issues-dmca-notice-to-take-down-posts-infringing-his-how-to-infringe-post.shtml#c531 "But you won't see the humor in the admission that copyright is valid on a site where Mike and minions argue to destroy it!"

Ghosh's post is covered automatically by copyright. Everyone knows that. It's not an endorsement or criticism of copyright, it's a statement of fact.

No surprise you see humour where there is none. 'Crazy person laughs out loud at nothing' is hardly newsworthy.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130509/17321423029/silliest-argument-ever-just-because-youtube-paywall-launches-it-means-more-money-is-made.shtml#c707 Fri, 10 May 2013 15:30:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130509/17321423029/silliest-argument-ever-just-because-youtube-paywall-launches-it-means-more-money-is-made.shtml#c707 "ARE you just "playing a role", Mike? When you use that phrase instead of "I was", readers can ONLY take you literally. -- And I do."

No, you're the only one around here stupid enough to take an obviously humorous phrase literally.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130509/17321423029/silliest-argument-ever-just-because-youtube-paywall-launches-it-means-more-money-is-made.shtml#c686 Fri, 10 May 2013 15:27:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130509/17321423029/silliest-argument-ever-just-because-youtube-paywall-launches-it-means-more-money-is-made.shtml#c686 "His job is to bolster the Google business model...

He's already switched sides to celebrate Louis CK, the great paywaller...

It will happen."

You must be an absolute hit in moon landing denial discussion groups.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/16334523008/eric-holder-answers-question-about-kim-dotcom-prosecution.shtml#c1628 Thu, 9 May 2013 18:24:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/16334523008/eric-holder-answers-question-about-kim-dotcom-prosecution.shtml#c1628 "I don't use regular dictionaries when looking up legal terms."

Eric Holder is not using "theft" as a legal term, otherwise he'd be charging MU with theft. He's using it as a copyright maximalist's scare term based entirely on the commonly understood dictionary definition.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/17221923011/streetlight-manifesto-cant-fulfill-pre-orders-because-label-refuses-to-give-them-their-own-records.shtml#c397 Thu, 9 May 2013 17:47:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130508/17221923011/streetlight-manifesto-cant-fulfill-pre-orders-because-label-refuses-to-give-them-their-own-records.shtml#c397 "As you say, no one cares when it's all positives, because that happens all the time."

No, no one cares when it's all positives, because that's what's supposed to happen.

Sign a contract to get paid for your work, get paid, no story.
Sign a contract to get paid for your work, don't get paid, STORY.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/11472022963/royalty-collection-agency-sabam-sues-belgian-isps-pursuit-its-34-piracy-license.shtml#c699 Tue, 7 May 2013 19:28:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/11472022963/royalty-collection-agency-sabam-sues-belgian-isps-pursuit-its-34-piracy-license.shtml#c699 "You inject your moral judgment into this. Drugs, weapons, child porn, money laundering and digital theft are all crimes and each harm a segment of society."

And the harm to society caused by drugs, weapons, child porn and money laundering and all far, far worse than the harm supposedly caused by "digital theft", i.e. copyright infringement. It's extraordinary that your own moral compass is so misguided that you would think these things are on the same level of harm. I'm not sure which possibility is worse; that you think copyright infringement is just as bad or if the others are not really all that harmful.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130502/10513922919/over-90-most-innovative-products-past-few-decades-were-not-patented.shtml#c343 Tue, 7 May 2013 17:34:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130502/10513922919/over-90-most-innovative-products-past-few-decades-were-not-patented.shtml#c343 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/12444222950/broad-coalition-public-private-interests-call-objective-data-research-concerning-copyright-reform.shtml#c331 Mon, 6 May 2013 19:31:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130505/12444222950/broad-coalition-public-private-interests-call-objective-data-research-concerning-copyright-reform.shtml#c331 "Mike refuses to acknowledge the moral basis of copyright."

I imagine Mike refuses to acknowledge the existence of Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny too, for much the same reason.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130503/15272422944/mike-masnicks-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c359 Sun, 5 May 2013 15:42:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130503/15272422944/mike-masnicks-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c359 " Why won't Mike Masnick disclose which companies are paying him to lobby against creator's protections?"

Why don't you go first? Comments like yours don't come from people who don't have vested interests. Are you an actual creator? Or are you just part of the industry that leeches off creators?

Besides, copyright's primary purpose is supposed to be to benefit society as a whole, not simply as "creator's protections". So if there's evidence that the harm to society is greater than the benefit (and there demonstrably is), then everyone should be speaking out against it.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130429/07200822872/doctors-call-out-novartis-insane-pricing-cancer-drug.shtml#c364 Sat, 4 May 2013 17:37:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130429/07200822872/doctors-call-out-novartis-insane-pricing-cancer-drug.shtml#c364 "The reason for patents is without them cos will not invest in R&D becasue if a product is successful in teh mktplace others will copy it. Then there would be no such drugs."

Heard of proofreading...?

There is ample evidence of drug development working just fine without patent protection. There is also ample evidence of big drug manufacturers using patent protection to limit supply and massively increase prices beyond the cost to develop and manufacture with a reasonable profit, not to mention trying to extend protection beyond when the patent was supposed to end. It's extraordinary that you can defend a system that actively works against the supposed purpose of drugs: saving lives.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130425/09355722835/alice-chains-we-hate-internet-twitter-dancing.shtml#c525 Sat, 4 May 2013 14:30:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130425/09355722835/alice-chains-we-hate-internet-twitter-dancing.shtml#c525 "A Techdirt notion is that price depends on value."

I didn't bother reading past this, because when you start your rant by completely misrepresenting one of TD's core positions, I know I'd just be wasting my time.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130503/07291422934/hyundai-tries-fails-to-make-its-awful-suicide-ad-disappear-internet.shtml#c328 Sat, 4 May 2013 14:13:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130503/07291422934/hyundai-tries-fails-to-make-its-awful-suicide-ad-disappear-internet.shtml#c328 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/16064822930/why-networks-are-really-afraid-aereo-time-warner-cable-says-it-might-offer-aereo-like-service.shtml#c895 Sat, 4 May 2013 00:05:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/16064822930/why-networks-are-really-afraid-aereo-time-warner-cable-says-it-might-offer-aereo-like-service.shtml#c895 "If Aereo isn't paying, everyone else who is will wonder why they're still paying."

They should've been wondering that a long time ago. Their stupidity is not our fault, but they make it everyone's problem.

"Simple stuff. Glad you're seeing it now."

Seeing it now? What condescending nonsense. Like you say, it's simple stuff and I doubt there are many regular TD readers who haven't known this for a long time. What's amazing is that you don't know that.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/16064822930/why-networks-are-really-afraid-aereo-time-warner-cable-says-it-might-offer-aereo-like-service.shtml#c877 Fri, 3 May 2013 23:25:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/16064822930/why-networks-are-really-afraid-aereo-time-warner-cable-says-it-might-offer-aereo-like-service.shtml#c877 "Here is the censored post..."

Why are you repeating something I've already read? It was dumb the first time and it was just plain annoying the second.

Ya moron...]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/09512722916/universal-responds-to-lawsuit-about-its-hollywood-accounting-tricks-claiming-that-it-actually-overpaid.shtml#c929 Fri, 3 May 2013 15:19:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130502/09512722916/universal-responds-to-lawsuit-about-its-hollywood-accounting-tricks-claiming-that-it-actually-overpaid.shtml#c929