http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121205/21484221251/nyc-artists-satirizes-law-enforcement-drone-program-gets-book-thrown-him-nypd.shtml#c556 Thu, 6 Dec 2012 14:28:41 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121205/21484221251/nyc-artists-satirizes-law-enforcement-drone-program-gets-book-thrown-him-nypd.shtml#c556
It *is* important if it's on the web, but that is mostly preaching to the choir. It seems that political art about technology is more effective when physical. Wonder how long that will last?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121018/10023520751/30-years-cd-digital-piracy-music-industry-cluelessness.shtml#c76 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:21:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121018/10023520751/30-years-cd-digital-piracy-music-industry-cluelessness.shtml#c76
I'm not saying the industry has been *smart* about much, but I don't see how they could have predicted the past 30 years with any accuracy (and I wouldn't want the transition to digital changed if they could have predicted all this).

The real issue is their insistence that the digital reality somehow play by physical rules. That misses all the benefits and opportunities that make my mother say "It's the Jetsons" in disbelief about video chat, while penalizing an entire generation for being excited by--and interfacing with--21st century realities.

The history is nice--and I'm glad they didn't see it coming--I'm just not sure how they could have.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121016/17553220724/sad-75-year-old-explanation-why-copyrights-are-bad-locked-up-behind-paywall.shtml#c2 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:15:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121016/17553220724/sad-75-year-old-explanation-why-copyrights-are-bad-locked-up-behind-paywall.shtml#c2 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120822/20021720129/return-living-dead-publicity-rights-legislation-continues-to-grant-protection-to-famous-corpses.shtml#c201 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:04:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120822/20021720129/return-living-dead-publicity-rights-legislation-continues-to-grant-protection-to-famous-corpses.shtml#c201 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120823/09265720135/nsa-put-premium-collecting-info-not-making-sense-it.shtml#c34 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:38:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120823/09265720135/nsa-put-premium-collecting-info-not-making-sense-it.shtml#c34 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120806/19331419949/back-forth-cloning-battles-with-zynga-continue-with-new-ea-chapter.shtml#c482 Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:24:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120806/19331419949/back-forth-cloning-battles-with-zynga-continue-with-new-ea-chapter.shtml#c482 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20120725/11051519831/app-developer-android-os-built-piracy-consumer-choice-sucks.shtml#c103 Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:50:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20120725/11051519831/app-developer-android-os-built-piracy-consumer-choice-sucks.shtml#c103
1) Piracy is Google's intended business model for Android.
2) Piracy is the antithesis of a successful business.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120718/03354519741/what-would-you-like-to-hear-techdirt-podcast.shtml#c509 Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:38:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120718/03354519741/what-would-you-like-to-hear-techdirt-podcast.shtml#c509 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120720/11510719777/obama-talks-toxic-clouds-runaway-trains-real-cybersecurity-solution-is-still-simple-obvious.shtml#c257 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:33:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120720/11510719777/obama-talks-toxic-clouds-runaway-trains-real-cybersecurity-solution-is-still-simple-obvious.shtml#c257 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120719/14402119765/youtube-decides-obama-singing-al-green-is-fair-use-restores-all-videos.shtml#c50 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:56:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120719/14402119765/youtube-decides-obama-singing-al-green-is-fair-use-restores-all-videos.shtml#c50 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120718/09305119744/wwe-raw-supershow-one-wrestler-short-due-to-sopa-support.shtml#c244 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:13:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120718/09305119744/wwe-raw-supershow-one-wrestler-short-due-to-sopa-support.shtml#c244 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120713/12025919694/olympic-level-ridiculousness-you-cant-link-to-olympics-website-if-you-say-something-mean-about-them.shtml#c217 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:47:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120713/12025919694/olympic-level-ridiculousness-you-cant-link-to-olympics-website-if-you-say-something-mean-about-them.shtml#c217 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120626/01023119476/innovation-copying-civil-disobedience.shtml#c237 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:08:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120626/01023119476/innovation-copying-civil-disobedience.shtml#c237 "monetizing other people's content" and using the innovation of copyright math to "get that content for free". Good point.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120626/01023119476/innovation-copying-civil-disobedience.shtml#c137 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:12:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120626/01023119476/innovation-copying-civil-disobedience.shtml#c137 Soviet science officials used to tour US aviation plants with special, sticky-soled to pick up bits of metal so that they could learn the composition of the alloys being used in aircraft manufacture.

Nothing innovative here... Move along!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120625/15033219471/actafacts-actafiction-just-unsourced-pro-acta-propaganda-purporting-to-be-objective.shtml#c381 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 06:15:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120625/15033219471/actafacts-actafiction-just-unsourced-pro-acta-propaganda-purporting-to-be-objective.shtml#c381 Oh, and the container ship image? Yeah, it's infringing
One wonders if they must use infringing material to masquerade under the aesthetic of a true, grassroots, internet-based assembly of citizens. ... Perhaps they should contemplate that for a moment.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20120502/15324918745/how-amanda-palmer-built-army-supporters-connecting-each-every-day-person-person.shtml#c92 Fri, 4 May 2012 13:50:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20120502/15324918745/how-amanda-palmer-built-army-supporters-connecting-each-every-day-person-person.shtml#c92
And just like that, the middlemen disappeared. Poof!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120427/11001218688/prolific-dvd-bootlegger-is-92-year-old-wwii-veteran.shtml#c639 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:52:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120427/11001218688/prolific-dvd-bootlegger-is-92-year-old-wwii-veteran.shtml#c639 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120427/11001218688/prolific-dvd-bootlegger-is-92-year-old-wwii-veteran.shtml#c353 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:01:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120427/11001218688/prolific-dvd-bootlegger-is-92-year-old-wwii-veteran.shtml#c353 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120424/16405018636/tor-listens-to-authors-readers-ditches-drm.shtml#c55 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:33:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120424/16405018636/tor-listens-to-authors-readers-ditches-drm.shtml#c55 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120328/23192318283/is-it-really-fair-to-say-that-red-hat-is-first-billion-dollar-open-source-company.shtml#c167 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:11:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120328/23192318283/is-it-really-fair-to-say-that-red-hat-is-first-billion-dollar-open-source-company.shtml#c167 http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/11/24/google-plus.html]]>