In other words, if a foreign citizen in a foreign country violates US law, he needs to be punished, however, if US officials violates US law in a foreign country, everything is just fine?
Author: KS
Microsoft FUD patent list seems to have been published
According to Techdirt, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has published a complete list over the 100 patents Microsoft has asserted against Android manufacturers.
One can only hope this gives F/OSS lawyers enough information to invalidate at least most of the patents in question.
Extreme Modder…
This guy’s name is The Extreme Modder. One would think if they were truly an extreme modder they would know how to jailbreak a ps3 and wouldn’t need to purchase one from some guy on craigslist or whatever.
Godspeed, kid.
Not only that, he has set a “flexible funding” campaign, so he will get any funds no matter what, and he still has the nerve to say “no rewards unless fully funded”.
Comcast Collects A Combined 20 Years Worth Of Fees From Two Customers Who Never Received What They Were Paying For
Techdirt recently published an article about two customers who had been billed for several years without getting anything at all for their money. Comcast’s response? “Meh. Customer’s at fault.”
Court Rejects Request That Secret NSA Evidence Used Against Terrorism Suspect Be Shared With Suspect’s Lawyers
It now seems like defenders will be unable to actually see the evidence used against them, because terrism.
it seemed pretty clear that the government had withheld the evidence that was used to bring Daoud to trial in the first place (which is, as you know, not really allowed). After asking for the evidence, the district court first said no, but then ordered that some of the documents being filed actually be shared with Daoud’s attorneys (who have the necessary security clearances). The DOJ, of course, flipped out at this idea that the lawyers for someone they’re trying to lock up forever should actually be able to see the evidence used against him and how it was collected.
This resulted in an appeals court hearing, which bizarrely had to happen twice after the FBI so scared court staff that they failed to record the public portion of the oral hearings. The hearings were also odd in that, at one point, everybody but DOJ folks and the judges were kicked out of the courtroom, raising serious questions about basic due process.
Unfortunately, Judge Richard Posner’s ruling (right after coming out with his good ruling on the public domain) has found that the evidence does not need to be shared with Daoud’s lawyers. He slams the district court judge for overreacting and over-valuing the concept of the “adversarial process” in the court room. Seriously.
Verizon Lobbyists: That Deaf, Dumb And Blind Kid Sure Could Use An Internet Fast Lane
Three Hill sources tell Mother Jones that Verizon lobbyists have cited the needs of blind, deaf, and disabled people to try to convince congressional staffers and their bosses to get on board with the fast lane idea. But groups representing disabled Americans, including the National Association of the Deaf, the National Federation of the Blind, and the American Association of People with Disabilities are not advocating for this plan. Mark Perriello, the president and CEO of the AAPD, says that this is the “first time” he has heard “these specific talking points.”
Sherlock Holmes REALLY Is In The Public Domain
Over the last few years, we’ve [Techdirt] been covering the declaratory judgment lawsuit trying to establish that Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. As explained, nearly all of the stories about Holmes were published prior to 1923, making them public domain in the US. However, there was one book with ten stories published after 1923, and those works are still covered by copyright, thanks to our nutty system of copyright extensions. Some Sherlock Holmes scholars/authors, Leslie Klinger and Laurie King, filed for declaratory judgment after the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Estate threatened the publisher of their upcoming book (after successfully pressuring a previous publisher) that Sherlock Holmes is still covered by copyright and a license must be obtained. Klinger argued that he wasn’t using anything from those works that were published post-1923.
City Of London Police Claim That ‘The Tor’ Is 90% Of The Internet, And Is A Risk To Society
“Whether it’s Bitnet, The Tor – which is 90% of the Internet – peer-to-peer sharing, or the streaming capability worldwide. At what point does civil society say that as well as the benefits that brings, this enables huge risk and threat to our society that we need to take action against?”
So someone saw “Goat Simulator”
… and thought, I want to make one of those:
Catlateral Damage is a first-person destructive cat simulator where you play as a cat on a rampage, knocking as much of your owner’s stuff onto the ground as possible. It’s a highly original, experimental concept that was born out of a game jam last year. Oh, and it’s based on a real-life mischievous cat!
“I would like to state for the record, I’m not a dingo.”
Quote Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC.
This truly epic video clip came to be because of John Oliver’s reporting on net neutrality on June 1st.