If you’re going to censor the internet, I guess you also have to criminalize attempts to get around the filters. That appears to be what’s happened in Iran, where any kind of system to get around the filters, including VPNs, has been criminalized. Ir… Continue reading →

We already wrote about the ridiculously bad E-PARASITE bill (the Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act), but having now had a chance go to through the full bill a few more times, there are even more… Continue reading →

It’s always fun for me when Techdirt has stories about the TSA, but perhaps not for the same reasons as everyone else here. By that, I mean that the range of reaction to such stories always strikes me as incredibly varied. Get a story about the TSA wor… Continue reading →

The judgements against copyright troll Righthaven are starting to pile up. Righthaven recently tried (unsuccessfully) to convince a Nevada court that $34k was more money than it could reasonably scrape together to post a bond while it appealed the adve… Continue reading →

Google has released its latest “transparency report” which seeks to reveal aggregate data on requests for user information and content takedowns from around the world. Much of the press coverage focuses on the fact that requests on user info was up 29… Continue reading →

This should come as absolutely no surprise (and, indeed, we predicted it), but following the guilty pleas of two of the admins for Ninjavideo, the two remaining Americans, who were indicted, have now accepted plea bargains as well. Compared to the fir… Continue reading →

As a recent Techdirt post noted, France’s HADOPI “three strikes” policy has effectively criminalized vast swathes of that country. Despite widespread opposition, the law was pushed through in 2009 by the current French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, as … Continue reading →

The folks behind Fight For the Future have teamed up with Kirby Ferguson, who created the excellent everything is a remix series, have teamed up to put together a video about the problems with PROTECT IP/E-PARASITES. It’s worth a watch… and passing … Continue reading →

Over the last few years, there have been plenty of crowdsourcing platforms to find solutions to difficult problems. And we’ve seen some brilliant examples of challenges solved via this method. But it doesn’t work every time (nor should anyone expect it… Continue reading →