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Techdirt: Quack Professor Releases Dumbest Violent Video Game Theory Ever
If you have sensed an increase in the levels of air-borne stupidity in the world lately, as have I, you might be looking for the root cause of this collective mental climate change. I think I've found it. I believe it's caused by emissions of stupid gener...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 7:01am -07:00T (477 words)
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Techdirt: How Low Can Drones Go?
As we've pointed out in a few stories, drones aren't necessarily something to worry about. Like any technology, they can be used for good and bad purposes, and shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. But determining where exactly the line between acceptab...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 4:31am -07:00T (381 words)
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Techdirt: Prenda Gets Some Tiny Bit Of Good News, As It May Get Out Of Two Critical Cases
It's been a busy day for Prenda news, with some trouble in Minnesota and central California. However, it may have some slightly better news in two other key cases where judges had suddenly taken a deeper interest in what exactly was going on with Prenda....
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:31pm -07:00T (470 words)
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Techdirt: Ridiculous Timing: Obama Administration Responds To Spying On AP By Pushing Journalist Shield Law That Wouldn't Matter
There was one odd side note in all of the attention last week to the DOJ spying on the AP under questionable circumstances. Right after being confronted about it, the Obama administration released some talking points about how they support a reintroducti...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:01pm -07:00T (295 words)
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Techdirt: Bad Day For Prenda Continues: Judge Rejects Stay, Adds $1k Per Day For Each Day They Don't Pay Up
Prenda's not having a very good day (or month, for that matter). We noted yesterday that Paul Hansmeier had asked the appeals court to put a stay on the attorney's fees awarded by Judge Otis Wright in California. The court rejected the request, partly o...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 5:16pm -07:00T (625 words)
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Techdirt: DailyDirt: Weapons In The Sky
Completely autonomous drones that can decide who or what to strike are still many years away from becoming a reality, but the military has already developed various unmanned aircraft that it's been using primarily for gathering intelligence (rather than f...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 5:16pm -07:00T (274 words)
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Techdirt: Angry Judge Tells Prenda To Stop Falsifying Alan Cooper's Signature; Calls It Fraud
Looks like Prenda continues to have problems in court. In the lawsuit in Minnesota that Alan Cooper brought against Prenda and John Steele for fraudulent use of his name, it appears that Judge Ann Alton made fairly quick work of getting the whole thing o...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 4:01pm -07:00T (271 words)
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Techdirt: More Details Emerge On Key Legal Fight Over DMCA Abuse
We recently wrote about a key legal fight over DMCA abuse and whether or not you can expect punishment for bogus DMCA takedowns under 512(f). The fact that even the MPAA has weighed in to make sure that there are basically no remedies for its faulty DMCA...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 2:46pm -07:00T (1005 words)
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Techdirt: NYC Says Renting Out Your Place Via Airbnb Is Running An Illegal Hotel
We've seen this over and over again: new and innovative startups enter a market in a creative and compelling way, and a combination of incumbents and regulators get in the way of something cool happening. Perhaps the most well known recent example of thi...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 1:31pm -07:00T (774 words)
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Techdirt: Makers Of Nutella Force Fan Who Created World Nutella Day To Shut It Down
Ferrero, the makers of Nutella, a hazelnut/chocolate spread that enjoys a love from people that I'll never understand (disclaimer: I hate chocolate), sure doesn't like anyone to use anything remotely like its name ever. You may not recall that it pushed b...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:16pm -07:00T (661 words)
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Techdirt: If You Think You Should Actually Own Products You Bought, Now Would Be A Good Time To Call Congress
We recently wrote about a bill being introduced in Congress that would help fix the DMCA by making a very minor, but important, set of changes to the anti-circumvention clauses of the DMCA. As you may recall, Section 1201 of the law says that it's agains...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:16pm -07:00T (343 words)
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Techdirt: Kitchen Nightmares Lawyers Threaten Infamous Samy And Amy If They Talk About Their Experience On The Show
Last week we wrote about the crazy mess that followed the recent episode of the show Kitchen Nightmares on Fox, in which the star of the show, Gordon Ramsay, actually walked away from Amy's Baking Company, after the owners, Samy and Amy Bouzaglo, didn't t...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:01am -07:00T (548 words)
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Techdirt: If You're Going To Illegally Seize Citizens' Cell Phones, At Least Make Sure You're Grabbing The Right Ones
When cops behave badly, many suddenly develop an acute case of unconstitutional stage fright, often resulting in the immediate confiscation of any cameras/cell phones in the vicinity. If it's going to come down to "our word against yours," it helps imme...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:46am -07:00T (999 words)
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Techdirt: DOJ And Dept. Of Education To Colleges: Start Restricting Free Speech On Campus Or Kiss Your Federal Funding Goodbye
Our nation's universities are (or were) usually considered to be places that fostered open discourse and encouraged the discussion of controversial topics in order to promote the growth of both the students and their critical thinking skills. This is no...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 8:31am -07:00T (846 words)
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Techdirt: Retired Lt. Col.: Violent Media Has Bred A Generation Of Killers
I can understand why someone who watches the news on a daily basis might shake their head in dismay. I get how it must feel necessary to put the blame for tragedies like Sandy Hook somewhere, anywhere, even if the eventual target of ire is misplaced. Th...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:01am -07:00T (778 words)
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