#10yrsago Porno copyright trolls #PrendaLaw fined $261K https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/unhappy-thanksgiving-for-prenda-law-ordered-to-pay-261k-to-defendants/

#10yrsago Presenting political argument on Twitter, and the “prestige economy” https://www.mic.com/articles/48829/why-you-should-never-have-taken-that-prestigious-internship

#10yrsago Apps come bundled with secret #Bitcoin mining programs, paper over the practice with #EULAs https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2013/11/potentially-unwanted-miners-toolbar-peddlers-use-your-system-to-make-btc

#10yrsago Study shows removing #DRM increased music sales https://torrentfreak.com/what-piracy-removing-drm-boosts-music-sales-by-10-percent-131130/

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#15yrsago The lost #NYTimes #steampunk feature https://web.archive.org/web/20080511003859/http://charmandrigor.com/clips/self-steampunk.html

#15yrsago Kids’ game adds 500-1000 words to its forbidden list every day https://www.gamesindustry.biz/mmo-week-industry-has-been-irresponsible-with-kids

#10yrsago #NewsCorp shareholders make another bid to democratize the #Murdoch family empire https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/08/rupert-murdoch-news-corporation

#10yrsago Welcome to the century of the copyright troll: #PrendaLaw was just the beginning https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/prenda-law-tip-iceberg

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#10yrsago #PrendaLaw judge says porno #CopyrightTrolls are frauds, identity thieves; $80K in fines and disbarment pending https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/prenda-hammered-judge-sends-porn-trolling-lawyers-to-criminal-investigators/

#10yrago #TheOnion gets hacked by Syrian propagandists, responds with funny article https://www.theonion.com/syrian-electronic-army-has-a-little-fun-before-inevitab-1819574930

#10yrsago #TimWu and I talk networks, policy and the future https://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/future_tense/2013/05/cory_doctorow_joins_tim_wu_for_the_slate_podcast_stranger_than_fiction.html

#10yrsago Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong: YA graphic novel about robots, romance and school elections https://memex.craphound.com/2013/05/07/nothing-can-possibly-go-wrong-ya-graphic-novel-about-robots-romance-and-school-elections/

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#10yrsago Notorious porno copyright trolls #PrendaLaw have a very bad day in court https://www.popehat.com/2013/04/02/prenda-laws-attorneys-take-the-fifth-rather-than-answer-judge-wrights-questions/

#10yrsago Free US court records service #RECAP gets two major features, in Aaron Swartz’s memory https://web.archive.org/web/20130403140545/https://www.recapthelaw.org/2013/04/02/two-recap-grants-awarded-in-memory-of-aaron-swartz/

#5yrsago A hive of scum and villainy: meet the right-wing “Democrats” the DCCC is planning to win 2018 with https://jacobin.com/2018/04/democratic-party-red-to-blue-list-candidates/

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#10yrsago Proposed Maryland anti-zero-tolerance law would tell schools to stop suspending kids who point their fingers at each other and say “bang” https://www.freerangekids.com/right-to-bear-gun-shaped-pop-tarts-law-drafted/

#10yrsago Porno-copyright trolls #PrendaLaw get hauled in front of a very angry judge https://www.techdirt.com/2013/03/11/deep-dive-analysis-brett-gibbs-gets-his-day-court-prenda-law-is-star/

#10yrsago Using clips from Ed Sullivan in Jersey Boys found to be #FairUse; judges award costs to deter future “chilling” copyright lawsuits https://web.archive.org/web/20130314111306/https://playbill.com/news/article/175814-Court-Says-Jersey-Boys-Producers-Were-Free-to-Use-Copyrighted-Ed-Sullivan-Clip-in-Show

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#15yrsago Heathrow Terminal 5 to fingerprint domestic passengers https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580993/Heathrow-airport-first-to-fingerprint.html

#15yrsago Economic problems with interstellar commerce https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14777620801910818

#10yrsago Closer look at the scammy, awful contracts from Random House’s new ebook imprints https://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/03/06/a-contract-from-alibi/

#10yrsago Mind-croggling deposition of a #PrendaLaw #CopyrightTroll https://www.popehat.com/2013/03/06/deposition-reveals-prenda-law-business-model-monetizing-squalid-douchebaggery/

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