This Week In Techdirt History: October 27th – November 2nd
from the once-upon-a-time dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2014, while the EU Court of Justice was ruling that embedding is not infringing in a decision sure to infuriate copyright maximalists, Europe’s new Digital Commissioner was on the other side of the coin exploring the idea of an EU-wide Google tax, and Spain passed a new copyright law demanding payment for snippets and links. The MPAA was freaking out over the short-lived appearance of Google Glass by banning the technology outright with an announcement hilariously referencing their “long history of welcoming technological advances”, and one pizzeria was pushing trademark insanity to the limits by trying to trademark the signature flavor of its pizza. Meanwhile, Verizon was continuing its fight against net neutrality by launching its own tech blog with an editorial policy banning any mention of the subject, as well as that of government surveillance.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2009, we were disappointed to see DMCA abuse by NPR and silly trademark bullying by SPARC, while not especially surprised to see Amazon fighting hard for its infamous one-click buying patent after it was rejected in Canada, or to see Warner Bros. shutting down a not-for-profit Harry Potter-themed dinner organized by a fan. The RIAA was on board with net neutrality as long as it exempted ISPs blocking file-sharers, an Italian politician was trying to file charges against nearly 5,000 YouTube commenters, Japanese prosecutors were still going after the developer of a file-sharing program, and an entertainment industry lawyer filed a criminal copyright complaint against Google in Germany. This was also the week that GeoCities officially went offline, and we had one headline that is especially amusing to see today: Netflix Claims Americans Don’t Want Standalone Streaming Movie Service.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2004, more people were continuing to realize that DRM sucks, while DirecTV was realizing that satellite internet sucks, and a former RIAA boss was suddenly magically realizing that Creative Commons doesn’t actually suck as much as she thought. The recording industry in Australia was going after the operator of a directory of MP3 download sites, a strange effort by a Spanish company to offer supposedly-legal MP3 downloads ended with a settlement with the RIAA, and one court got things right when it said Lexmark was abusing the DMCA with its circumvention lawsuit over competing ink cartridges. We also saw a couple companies get badly confused: Rolex (the up-and-coming favorite brand for spammers) managed to send a cease-and-desist to a mailing list archive because it received fake Rolex spam, and Nintendo had to apologize after it rushed to threaten the SuicideGirls website over a model’s profile that listed some Nintendo titles among her favorite video games.
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This week in Techdirt history, MM agreed with me in condemning WAPO about their “austere scholar” post.
Maybe America is finally coming together.
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I think so too.
I read MM’s post.
He almost seemed genuine.
Did he really fuck Chelsea Manning in the ass and then force her/him to suck his dick?
Seems fitting.
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The time has come, this week in Techdirt’s history, for the demon rats to face their fears.
Trump will not be removed.
Trump will be re-elected.
Face it.
Like an Indian initiation ritual for a late teenager, face your fears.
Debate like a man.
Or be publicly humiliated, until you do.
Publius
Re: My fear is running out of tacos
Spoken in the conclusory time on a very insecure man with a tiny penis.
This week in Techdirt history, Shiva Ayyadurai still hadn’t invented email.
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Guilty by reason of insanity.
Limbaugh.
Look it it up.
Who am i today in your vivid imagination?
Shiva the Destroyer?
Out Of The Blue?
Hamilton?
Prenda Law?
Harder and harder?
Or are they all the same to your delusional self?
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Today you are Richard Liebowitz, who lost his shit after three judges called him a copyright troll. Suck it!
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Nah. Hamilton’s pissy, hissy fit resembles Colette Pelissier more.
The trolls troll themselves when not given an article to misinterpret or read lies into. I like to picture them sitting alone in an old house-trailer with a coffee-stained mug, spittle flying as they mouth the words they think they’re typing and a smug look of self-satisfaction as they hit enter on yet another ridiculous if not wholly insane shitpost full of personal attacks. It’s easy to picture as I’m actually (and sadly) related to someone just like them. Nutjob from end to end.
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Oh ithink Blue Balls is sucking on a bottle of Mt Dew.
But… Yeah he lives in his parents basement.
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Re: This comment neatly sums up why Techdirt has failed.
Doesn’t matter who or what I am, kids. You need positives, not mere ad hominem. You obsess on dissent — literally mention a person from out of the blue! — because can’t answer it with facts.
Especially does Masnick need actual accomplishment or least a logical positive case.
In copyright, for instance, you need a positive right, not just demand to be entertained and jeering that it’s difficult to catch you thieves.
But Techdirt has nothing positive, just petty hateful fanboys.
And so, I’ve won — as inevitable by merely stating facts — and will be moseying along shortly. You are NOT driving me off, never have, and cannot.
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So are you moseying along or getting driven off?
How’s that Richard Liebowitz defense fund coming along bro?
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out_of_the_blue just hates it when due process is enforced.