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Techdirt: Sophisticatedjanedoe / FightCopyrightTrolls Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Hi Techdirt! I'm known to this and other tech blog communities as sophisticatedjanedoe (or SJD). I run an anti-shakedown, anti-copyright-troll opinion blog Fight Copyright Trolls, which, I'm sure, most of you know: Techdirt often links to my posts, especi...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 12:46pm -07:00T (597 words)
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Techdirt: Awesome Stuff: Cool Product Designs
For this week's awesome stuff, we've got three different projects that just caught my eye for being different and interesting in a design sense.
I don't know about you, but I've had a few too many experiencing having to try to inflate an air mattress o...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 10:31am -07:00T (435 words)
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Techdirt: Rice University Professor: SkyNET's Gonna Take Ur Jerbs!
It's sad to note how collective humanity has done an ostrich on the warnings about the machines. Still the NFL exists, robbing us of our best and brightest, who will no longer be available for the coming war with SkyNET. Conferences on what to do about ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:46pm -07:00T (682 words)
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Techdirt: Make Art, Not Law
Crossposted from Questioncopyright.org
Photo by Ravi Swami, London UK
QCO Artist-in-Residence Nina Paley’s interview with at Baixa Cultura, conducted by email with journalist and photographer André Solnik. The English below is the origi...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:31pm -07:00T (1260 words)
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Techdirt: DailyDirt: DIY Junk Food
Is it still junk food if you make it yourself? If you feel guilty about buying junk food and have lots of time on your hands, here are a few links that might inspire you to try recreating some popular snacks at home. Here's a recipe for homemade Cheez-It ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:16pm -07:00T (198 words)
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Techdirt: AP's Attempt At DRM'ing The News Shuts Down
Plenty of people rightly mocked the news a few years ago that the Associated Press was working on a plan to "DRM the news." The idea was to put some sort of licensing mechanism together to get news aggregators to pay to promote their news. This seemed i...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:16pm -07:00T (266 words)
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Techdirt: Suburban Express Goes Double Or Nothing On Their Aggressive Behavior
Hopefully you recall the story of Suburban Express and its owner, admitted domain squatter Dennis Toeppen, but let me catch you up and let you know what's been going on since that post ran. Suburban Express is a bus company that caters to Midwest students...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 5:01pm -07:00T (677 words)
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Techdirt: Want To Destroy Any Hope Of Serious Cybersecurity? Give The DOJ Its Desired Backdoor Wiretaps On All Communications
The Obama administration has supposedly been "considering" the latest version of the DOJ's plan to require backdoor wiretapping abilities in any form of digital communication. If you don't recall, the FBI asks for this basically every year. The latest v...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 3:46pm -07:00T (314 words)
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Techdirt: Nintendo Exchanges Goodwill For Control; Issues Mass Monetization Claims On Let's Play Videos
Nintendo's history of aggressive IP enforcement is long and colorful and, occasionally, completely ridiculous. No one protects the brand quite as fiercely as Nintendo does, an unfortunate byproduct of its obsession with maintaining a clean, family-friendl...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 2:31pm -07:00T (1007 words)
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Techdirt: Indian Publishing Firm Can't Take A Little Criticism, Threatens Blogger With $1 Billion Lawsuit, Criminal Charges
Here's a fun one via Popehat. Apparently an Indian publishing firm by the name of OMICS can't take some criticism from a blogger. The blogger, Jeffrey Beall, who is based in the US, has a blog called Scholarly Open Access (he's also a librarian at the U...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 1:16pm -07:00T (580 words)
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Techdirt: Lots Of People Don't Turn Off Their Devices When They Fly
I've always been careful about putting my phone into "airplane mode" when flight attendants ask. However, a few years back, for reasons that I've yet to see any explanation for, flight attendants changed the script and started insisting that "flight mode...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 12:01pm -07:00T (749 words)
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Techdirt: Big Pharma Firms Seeking .pharmacy Domain To Crowd Out Legitimate Foreign Pharmacies
For years, we've noted that the big drug companies like to conflate legitimate foreign pharmacies (often based in Canada) that sell back into the US (the so-called "reimportation" or "parallel import" market) at cheaper prices with out and out bogus or co...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 10:46am -07:00T (525 words)
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Techdirt: Bogus Lawsuit Plus Threats To Those Who Write About It Leads To Epic Response
Reader Jason sent over a blog post that sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, following the story through a variety of twists and turns. The key player in the story is Jonathan Monsarrat, who among other things founded the video game company Turbine (Ashe...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 10:46am -07:00T (3334 words)
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Techdirt: A Framework For Copyright Reform
I watched a large part of the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property's first hearing on copyright reform, and came away somewhat disappointed. While the panelists presented a variety of interesting viewpoints and worked hard to highlight areas of ag...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 9:31am -07:00T (1195 words)
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Techdirt: Saudi Religious Police: Anyone Using Twitter 'Has Lost This World And His Afterlife'
A couple of days ago Techdirt wrote about how Murong Xuecun, a well-known user of the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo with over a million followers, had his account closed down suddenly. Murong has now written a fine article about the background to what h...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:16am -07:00T (512 words)
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