Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024 [3] David Chang Issues C&Ds Over ‘Chile Crunch’ Products, Then Apologizes And Promises To Stop from the walk-it-back dept by Dark Helmet - April 23rd @ 8:00pm While it doesn’t happen nearly as often as I’d like, it is quite satisfying when a trademark bully is forced to walk back their ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Monday, April 22nd, 2024 [3] More Open Access Training For Academics Would Lead To More Open Access from the need-to-lead-the-academics-to-water dept by Mike Masnick - April 22nd @ 8:15pm Open access publishing, which allows people to read academic papers without a subscription, seems such a good idea. It means that a ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Sunday, April 21st, 2024 [3] Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt from the plenty-to-say dept by Leigh Beadon - April 21st @ 1:05pm This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to our post about Google blocking news sites in California because of bad link tax laws, and sp ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Saturday, April 20th, 2024 [3] This Week In Techdirt History: April 14th – 20th from the do-you-recall dept by Leigh Beadon - April 20th @ 12:00pm Five Years Ago This week in 2019, Starz was [4]going after tweets about a TorrentFreak article, then issuing a [5]laughably unbelievable excuse and apology. Th ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Friday, April 19th, 2024 [3] Senate Must Follow House’s Lead In Passing Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act from the make-it-happen dept by Mike Masnick - April 19th @ 7:39pm The Fourth Amendment exists for a reason. It’s supposed to protect our private possessions and data from government snooping, unless they ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Thursday, April 18th, 2024 [3] UK Prosecutors Apologize For Pursuing BS Charges Against A Photographer from the things-you'll-never-see-in-the-US dept by Tim Cushing - April 18th @ 8:45pm Cops [4]hate being watched, no matter where they’re located. In the United States, we’ve seen [5]several arrests and [ ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 [3] Senate Now Considering Section 702 Re-Up With A Dangerous Amendment Attached To It from the 702-but-make-it-worse dept by Tim Cushing - April 17th @ 8:04pm [4]For a little while, it looked as though Section 702 surveillance might finally be curtailed, if not substantially reformed ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 [3] Bell Canada, After Nixxing Most Hardware DVR, Changes Cloud PVR Recording Retention from the gotcha! dept by Dark Helmet - April 16th @ 7:41pm We’ve written about [4]Bell Canada plenty over the years and not typically for good reasons. This is a company that wanted to [5]ban V ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Monday, April 15th, 2024 [3] Bandai Namco Sends Threat Letter To Modding Site Over Supposed Trademark Issues from the dear-god-why? dept by Dark Helmet - April 15th @ 8:02pm Here we go again. There seems to be a thing happening among a select few big name video game publishers that have decided for some reason t ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Sunday, April 14th, 2024 [3] Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt from the so-sayeth dept by Leigh Beadon - April 14th @ 12:00pm This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is [4]Bloof, responding to a complaint that our negative coverage of Elon Musk prevents us [5]covering ...Continue Reading