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

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 13th, 2024 [3] This Week In Techdirt History: April 7th – 13th from the that-was-that dept by Leigh Beadon - April 13th @ 12:00pm Five Years Ago This week in 2019, Colorado’s net neutrality bill was [4]heading to the governor’s desk while Mitch McConnell was promising a House net neutrality b ...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 12th, 2024 [3] Court Rules For Paramount In Lawsuit Over ‘Top Gun’ Movies from the shot-down dept by Dark Helmet - April 12th @ 7:39pm A couple of years back, Mike wrote about a lawsuit brought against Paramount Pictures over its Top Gun movies. There were several things that colluded to make this law ...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 11th, 2024 [3] No, The Internet Hasn’t Gotten Worse: Just Your Outlook from the scientifically-proven-godwin dept by Mike Masnick - April 11th @ 8:13pm Ah, the good old days of the internet – a utopian paradise where everyone was kind, respectful, and definitely not arguing about Hitler. Or was it? ...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 10th, 2024 [3] Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months from the are-you-putin-me-on? dept by Dark Helmet - April 10th @ 7:35pm Back when Vladimir Putin launched his aggressive war on Ukraine, even before western government sanctions began rolling out ...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 9th, 2024 [3] How Copyright May Destroy Our Access To The World’s Academic Knowledge from the we're-destroying-our-knowledge dept by Mike Masnick - April 9th @ 7:46pm The shift from analogue to digital has had a massive impact on most aspects of life. One area where that shift has the potential for huge ...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 8th, 2024 [3] One YouTuber’s Quest For Political Action To Preserve Old Video Games from the my-hero dept by Dark Helmet - April 8th @ 7:40pm In all of the posts we have done on the topic of [4]video game preservation, I have often made the point that it’s probably long past time that there be some ...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 7th, 2024 [3] Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt from the chit-chat dept by Leigh Beadon - April 7th @ 12:00pm This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about Jim Jordan demanding [4]major ad companies explain why they won’t advertise on ...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 6th, 2024 [3] Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Letters To Cthulhu from the gaming-like-it's-1928 dept by Leigh Beadon - April 6th @ 12:00pm And here we are! We’ve arrived at the end of our series of posts looking at [4]the winners of the sixth annual public domain game jam, [5]Gaming Like It’s 19 ...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 5th, 2024 [3] Germany Still Locking Up Some Laws Behind Copyright from the free-the-law dept by Mike Masnick - April 5th @ 7:39pm It is often said that “ignorance of the law is no defense.” But the corollary of this statement is that laws must be freely available so that people can find them, read the ...Continue Reading