http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110603/04031914541/foia-request-unveils-secret-cia-produced-documentary-about-cia-agents-captured-held-china-decades.shtml#c135 Fri, 3 Jun 2011 17:19:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110603/04031914541/foia-request-unveils-secret-cia-produced-documentary-about-cia-agents-captured-held-china-decades.shtml#c135 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/11535712195/fbi-thwarts-another-its-own-bomb-plots.shtml#c698 Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:19:34 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101208/11535712195/fbi-thwarts-another-its-own-bomb-plots.shtml#c698 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101130/02420512052/olympics-continues-threatening-icann-because-it-wont-block-all-olympics-related-terms.shtml#c104 Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:55:08 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101130/02420512052/olympics-continues-threatening-icann-because-it-wont-block-all-olympics-related-terms.shtml#c104 For them to try to claim IP rights on the Olympics is about as dumb as trying to copyright or trademark dirt.
If they ever were successful, I would love to see "International ___ Committees" pop-up for every new sport that is adopted by the Olympics, then charge the IOC for using 'their sport.']]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101130/03122512054/why-wikileaks-document-release-is-key-to-functioning-democracy.shtml#c302 Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:09:37 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101130/03122512054/why-wikileaks-document-release-is-key-to-functioning-democracy.shtml#c302 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101130/03122512054/why-wikileaks-document-release-is-key-to-functioning-democracy.shtml#c278 Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:07:22 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101130/03122512054/why-wikileaks-document-release-is-key-to-functioning-democracy.shtml#c278 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101119/18284511954/whether-not-tsa-has-ever-caught-terrorist-is-apparently-state-secret.shtml#c375 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:10:57 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101119/18284511954/whether-not-tsa-has-ever-caught-terrorist-is-apparently-state-secret.shtml#c375
There's a difference?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101119/18284511954/whether-not-tsa-has-ever-caught-terrorist-is-apparently-state-secret.shtml#c359 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:06:27 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101119/18284511954/whether-not-tsa-has-ever-caught-terrorist-is-apparently-state-secret.shtml#c359 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101122/02490011960/man-strips-down-tsa-told-he-still-needed-to-be-groped-arrested-failing-to-complete-security-process.shtml#c443 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:52:43 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101122/02490011960/man-strips-down-tsa-told-he-still-needed-to-be-groped-arrested-failing-to-complete-security-process.shtml#c443 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101121/23584311958/why-voting-coica-is-vote-censorship.shtml#c1055 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:17:55 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101121/23584311958/why-voting-coica-is-vote-censorship.shtml#c1055 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101103/09505411705/brazilian-tv-host-gets-court-to-demand-google-censor-results-pointing-to-a-movie-she-was-once-in.shtml#c218 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:06:10 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101103/09505411705/brazilian-tv-host-gets-court-to-demand-google-censor-results-pointing-to-a-movie-she-was-once-in.shtml#c218 ===========================

I'm pretty certain that Brazil's 'tired' court system will have dug it's own grave with these decisions.
Since the precedent has now been set, I can only imagine these types of claims will begin to overwhelm the courts very quickly.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101103/09505411705/brazilian-tv-host-gets-court-to-demand-google-censor-results-pointing-to-a-movie-she-was-once-in.shtml#c193 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:01:45 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101103/09505411705/brazilian-tv-host-gets-court-to-demand-google-censor-results-pointing-to-a-movie-she-was-once-in.shtml#c193 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101108/03205411757/are-indiscreet-images-on-social-networks-really-having-an-impact-on-elections.shtml#c209 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:52:01 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101108/03205411757/are-indiscreet-images-on-social-networks-really-having-an-impact-on-elections.shtml#c209 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101019/17422111490/democrats-are-from-cablevision-republicans-are-from-fox-in-retransmission-fee-dispute.shtml#c93 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:37:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101019/17422111490/democrats-are-from-cablevision-republicans-are-from-fox-in-retransmission-fee-dispute.shtml#c93 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101018/02335511463/fox-extends-cablevision-blackout-to-hulu-temporarily.shtml#c460 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:09:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101018/02335511463/fox-extends-cablevision-blackout-to-hulu-temporarily.shtml#c460 If this is the model that the content providers who own Hulu are going to use this platform as, then the question has to be raised. If they are planning on collaborating with the other major networks, putting the advertising revenue under one company that works for all of them (Hulu), then only allowing their content to stream online thru that one outlet (, hence cutting out all other (cable company types) via the IP 'airwaves' which is arguably most definitely going to replace coax someday...) then they are seriously cutting out the only 'competition' for this market before it ever gets off the ground.
Hulu should be watched as a shell company offering it's providers an avenue for price-fixing and anti-trust of it's ad revenue VERY carefully in the future.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c294 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:59:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100924/04371011151/verizon-ceo-actually-recognizes-that-people-want-to-cut-the-cord.shtml#c294 Home phone? Who needs it. I've moved about 10 times in as many years for work, my number changes constantly due to area providers. Started using MagicJack, number stays the same for years, I don't even plug it in, it just forwards to my cell so I don't have to give that number out.
Cut the cord already. Get your home wired with ethernet instead of coax and phone jacks and tell your local provider to shove those 'bundles' where the sun doesn't shine. A generation has figured out a way to deliver their own 'cafeteria plan' for media because cable & sat couldn't/wouldn't offer it.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100922/03455311107/how-the-attempted-censorship-of-file-sharing-sites-avoids-due-process.shtml#c185 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:16:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100922/03455311107/how-the-attempted-censorship-of-file-sharing-sites-avoids-due-process.shtml#c185 AG: I'm not telling the cops to rough this guy up for a confession, but I'll provide immunity to the cops in case they do...

AG: I can't issue warrants to search these homes, but if they get searched by ...anyone, immunity will be provided for tips leading to any arrests.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100919/00444911066/cocoa-genome-released-but-is-it-really-in-the-public-domain.shtml#c147 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:32:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100919/00444911066/cocoa-genome-released-but-is-it-really-in-the-public-domain.shtml#c147 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100909/21161010962.shtml#c23 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:11:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100909/21161010962.shtml#c23 Where do a website's 'Terms of use polices' being enforced by the federal goverment collide with the government's enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100813/12361610620.shtml#c63 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:07:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100813/12361610620.shtml#c63
Not certain I understand. There was a web-store depicted in the book with a shopping cart? Or was there an actual website upon which the book was sold (via shoping cart?)

If it was just depicted in the book, it could be argued 'fiction' unless there was a detailed process on creating it live, with an example website to prove it.

Otherwise, I'm going out and patenting the flux-capacitor just like in the movie, just in case anyone ever actually makes one.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100813/12361610620.shtml#c62 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:00:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100813/12361610620.shtml#c62 Then they could have turned around and acted like they invented the shopping cart and started suing everyone.]]>