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Everyone Be Afraid! Predators Move To Game Consoles

There's a neat little rule in press coverage: three stories makes a "trend" even if there's not much more to it. This works particularly well on stories where you're trying to scare people into worrying about something "bad" happening out there. Of...

Can A Company Ban Retailers From Selling Its Products On eBay?

Right on the heels of the <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080630/1127401554.shtml">awful</a> court decision in France saying that eBay can be barred from selling even <i>legitimate</i> products, it appears some com...

Do J.R.R. Tolkien's Kids Deserve Money For The Lord Of The Rings Movies?

There are some competing opinion pieces in the LA Times, starting off with one siding with J.R.R. Tolkien's kids <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-brief2-2008jul02,0,2775685.story" target="_new">in their legal figh...

Virgin: We Won't Cut Off File Sharers; Sends Envelope Saying 'We May Cut You Off'

After reports said that UK broadband ISP Virgin Media <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080331/112321703.shtml">would</a> become the recording industry's copyright cop, Virgin came out <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/article...

Mark Cuban's Wrong: Porn Filtering On YouTube Doesn't Mean It Loses Safe Harbors

Mark Cuban has a weird obsession with trying to convince people that YouTube is illegal, despite <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061026/182109.shtml">plenty</a> of evidence to the contrary. His latest discussion on the topic ...

Lawyer Seriously Slapped Down For SLAPP Attempt Against Librarian Blogger

We've covered the concept of SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) suits plenty of times <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080425/175127953.shtml">before</a>. These are bogus lawsuits filed to try to bully a cr...

Theaters Working To Make Even The Pre-Show Ads More Entertaining

Two different themes we've discussed here quite often are (1) that movie theaters need to stop worrying about piracy, and focus more on improving the <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060727/1512205.shtml">moviegoing experience</a&...

Has Broadband Growth Stalled In The US?

A new survey on broadband adoption in the US <a href="http://techliberation.com/2008/07/02/broadband-internet-adoption-stalls-regresses-for-poor-says-pew-report/" target="_new">suggests that broadband adoption in the US may be leveling off</...

Viacom Gets To Find Out What YouTube Videos You Watched

In the ongoing trainwreck that is Viacom's misguided <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070313/064614.shtml">lawsuit</a> against YouTube (the one they would be <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080530/1348331270.shtm...

US Gov't: Do Not Carry Your Social Security Number; US Gov't: You Must Carry Your Social Security Number

The classic concept of how to force someone to think for themselves rather than mindlessly obey authority is to have two equally powerful authority figures demand that the individual do the completely opposite actions (an example: having two top gene...

EFF, ACLU Sue To Find Out Details Of Gov't Use Of Mobile Phone Data To Track People

Back in November, the news broke on the Friday after Thanksgiving that the federal government routinely <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071126/101924.shtml">asked for and received</a> information from mobile phone operators ab...

Kia Decides That It No Longer Wants Its TV Commercials To Be Entertaining

For a while now, we've been pointing out how, for advertising to be effective, it also needs to be <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080318/004136567.shtml">good content</a> that people don't just "not mind" seeing, but which th...

Social Engineering 101: Focus On Informal Conversations

In the past, we've covered plenty of stories about <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20051107/1721251.shtml">social engineering</a> to get people to admit stuff they shouldn't -- suggesting you really just need to ask people to gi...

If You Must Make A Hidden Camera, Don't Make It Look Like Garbage

Here's one for the "didn't quite think that through, did you" files. <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5021192/20000-spy-camera-disguised-as-garbage-thrown-out-with-the-trash">Gizmodo</a> points us to the news that British authorities trying t...

UK Gov't Throws Open Data For Mashups; Offers Prize Money For Best Results

We were just complaining about the fact that governments should be <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080609/0307271343.shtml">exposing APIs</a> on certain government data so that people can create more useful services out of the...

Congress Close To Fixing Constitutional Loophole Over Patent Judge Appointments

While there was some interesting chatter around some reports back in April that the last eight years of patent appeals board judges may have been <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080427/153009961.shtml">unconstitutional</a>, as...

Blockbuster Looks At Circuit City's Books; Ditches Acquisition Offer

We were one of a very small number of people who actually saw <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080414/035107841.shtml">some logic</a> behind Blockbuster bidding for Circuit City -- though, it seemed unlikely that Blockbuster vi...

Missouri Makes Online Harassment A Felony

Laws passed as an emotional reaction to a tragic situation are almost always bad laws. The state of Missouri has <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/91992C9119D9C45E862574790012A16C?OpenDocument" target="_ne...

Court Says CD-ROMs Of Magazine Archives Don't Violate Copyrights Of Article Authors

There have been a series of <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20051212/115241.shtml">lawsuits</a> over the years concerning whether or not magazines could create CD-ROM archives of their magazines without having to pay all their f...

Why Zittrain's Techno-Pessimism Is Unwarranted

<p>Ars Technica <a href="http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/book-review-2008-06-2-admin.ars/2">reviews</a> Jonathan Zittrain's new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Future-Internet-How-Stop/dp/0300124872">The Future of...

Why Zittrain's Techno-Pessimism Is Unwarranted

<p>Ars Technica <a href="http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/book-review-2008-06-2-admin.ars/2">reviews</a> Jonathan Zittrain's new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Future-Internet-How-Stop/dp/0300124872">The Future of...


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