This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bloof with a comment about Wikipedia banning its co-founder:

Guy was one of many people involved in the start of Wikipedia, left in a snit to start rival project after rival project more in line with his personal vision, each dying a death because his vision doesn’t make for a useful website with a thriving community. After these sites rotted on the vine, he decided to do return, contribute nothing worthwhile for years and right wing media tours to help signal boost right wing attempts to attack the site because they won’t let them hijack the site the way they have everything else.

He’s the intellectual equivalent of a J6er, he openly tried to do a coup, got punished because the rules should be applied equally regardless of political beliefs, and expects sympathy, only there’s no Trump to wave the get out of consequences free card for him.

In second place, it’s That One Guy with a simple response to ICE rebutting Nazi allegations by going full Gestapo:

Someone doth protest too much

If not nazi, why nazi shaped?

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Whoever about how speech laws designed to protect the powerless get abused by the powerful:

Another example

In the UK, the wealthy and powerful are able to get “Superinjunctions” to prevent speech, and, significantly, even the existence of the injunction cannot be disclosed.

Combined with strict libel laws (even truth is not an absolute case in the UK — the case of George Galloway against the Daily Telegraph showed this), the powerful in the UK can be used to restrict speech that criticizes them.

Next, it’s Stephen T. Stone with a comment about the FCC claiming the First Amendment allows it to ban porn:

Porn is, was, and always will be the canary in the censorship coal mine. Censors count on people being too embarassed about defending porn to stop censorship. If they take even the most innocuous pornography away from you⁠—I’m talking Playboy pinups here⁠—and you do nothing about it because “who wants to defend smut”, every other kind of speech is on the table. This really is a “first they came for” situation, so if you’re not willing to openly defend porn as protected speech, the least you can do is not openly support the censors when they use your triggers against you.

“Remember, pornographers have always been on our side. Brave, ready to fight for our rights. Smut is our friend.” — John Waters

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Bloof with a comment about Trump taking out his anger over the reflecting pool on a US olympic canoeist:

If he’s mad about the Olympian, wait until he hears about that idiot who drove a motorcade of heavy, armoured vehicles across it before they filled it back up. That guy will be in sooo much trouble.

In second place, it’s Zeus with another joke about the whole debacle:

LMFAO

A narcissist obsessed with a reflecting pool?

Not again. Sheesh.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous comment about time travel:

You don’t reseaerch time travel: you just make a decision to research time travel and if your future self doesn’t promptly show up to say hi then you know that your research would have failed.

Finally, it’s MrWilson responding to the FCC General Counsel’s complaint about porn being widely available and cheap or free:

Well something needs to be affordable in our society if it’s not going to be food, housing, education, energy, and other basic human needs.

That’s all for this week, folks!

This Week in 2016

• ‘Most Transparent’ President Signs Into Law FOIA Reform Bill That Won’t Affect His Administration
• Documentary About Freeing Happy Birthday From Copyfraud Comes Out The Day After Happy Birthday Officially Declared Public Domain
• Why The Latest Supreme Court Ruling In Kirtsaeng May Have A Much Bigger Impact On Copyright & Fair Use
• Appeals Court Says That Sharing Passwords Can Violate Criminal Anti-Hacking Laws
• FBI Vacuums Up Local Law Enforcement Documents To Block Open Records Requests About Orlando Shooting
• Facebook Experiments With End To End Encryption In Messenger

This Week in 2011

• Smear Campaign Ramps Up Against Those Who Believe Free Speech Is More Important Than Hollywood’s Obsolete Business Model
• Homeland Security Working Hard To Make Sure No One Wants To Use .com Or .net Domains
• Video Gamers Realizing Streaming Criminalization Bill Might Make A Lot Of Them Into Criminals
• Senator Jerry Moran Removes Himself As A PROTECT IP Co-Sponsor
• RIAA Accounting: How To Sell 1 Million Albums And Still Owe $500,000
• Did The Entertainment Industry Backdoor In Forcing ISPs To Kick People Offline, While Claiming It Did Not?

This Week in 2006

• Throwing Away Privacy In The Blink Of An Eye
• New Casino Business Model: Any Time Someone Wins, Blame The Software
• Australia Wants To Regulate YouTube As Well
• Attention English Teachers: Google Is Officially A Verb
• Will The MPAA Now Lobby For A Ban On The Print Screen Button?
• Is The Navy Trying To Patent The Firewall?

This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to the German court ruling that Google is liable for false claims in its AI overviews. In first place, it’s an anonymous comment about Bruce Schneier’s reaction to the ruling:

“There’s nothing in the law that requires us to accommodate AI systems if they are fundamentally untrustworthy, just as we don’t need to accommodate untrustworthy human systems.”

Schneier’s spot-on here. The greedy-but-lazy thugs at the AI/LLM companies want it both ways: they don’t want to invest the time, effort, and clue required to build reliable systems, but they don’t want to be held accountable for the massively unreliable systems they’ve already built.

By the way: the opinion itself is extremely well-written. The court did its homework. Full marks.

In second place, it’s A Guy with the first comment on the post:

Seems like common sense. AIs that constantly lie and AI agents that break things are defective products.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Arianity about NCOSE lawyers repeatedly citing fake cases:

When this first started happening publicly ~2 years ago, I shook my head. Whatever, it’s embarrassing, but new technology takes time, most lawyers are old and not particularly tech savvy.

How the fuck are we still doing this (on seemingly like a weekly basis) 2 years later??

Next, it’s n00bdragon with a comment about JD Vance bragging about being able to do lots of Watergates:

He’s right in another sense as well. Watergate wouldn’t even last 12 hours today because the Trump administration does that every day before breakfast. Say what you want about Nixon, at least he still had the vestigial thread of shame to resign. He didn’t try to pull a coup or have his own vice president murdered.

I think Vance knows Trump would (quite literally) stab him in the back if it came down to it, but is making a calculated gamble that someone will succeed in taking down Tangerine Jesus and leave him with the presidency if only he can belch forth the required amount of nonsense until that day. I think he’s an idiot who does a disservice to his country and the human race in general with that idea but there it is.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Doug with a comment on our post about CBS ratings continuing to nosedive:

The Lawnmower

Don’t make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison.

In second place, it’s glenn with another comment about the NCOSE lawyers:

You say “legal briefs.” I say “fan fiction.”

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from Rocky about the settlement for the man who was arrested for playing Star Wars music at National Guard troops:

After this win, O’Hara can follow them around again playing the Imperial March on a very tiny violin.

Finally, it’s Pixelation with a quick reaction to the title of the latest episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech:

Bad that pun. It’s ban.

That’s all for this week, folks!

This Week in 2016

• Copyright Office Pushing Dangerous And Ridiculous Plan To Strip Websites Of DMCA Safe Harbors
• Judge Calls Out Malibu Media For Its Attempt To Cut And Run When Faced With Challenge To Its Infringement Claims
• Hillary Clinton’s Tech Policy Plan Includes Some Empty Broadband Promises And A Continued War On Encryption
• Malibu Media Sues Its Former Lawyer Over Missing Funds, Breach Of Bar Rules
• Michael Bloomberg Comes Down On The Wrong Side Of The Crypto Wars: Supports Backdooring Encryption
• Ford Dealership Swipes Game Image For Ad, Thinks It’s Kosher Because It Came From A DMCA Compliant Site

This Week in 2011

• Supreme Court Says Anti-Violent Video Game Law Violates The First Amendment
• Righthaven Charged With Racketeering In Somewhat Epic Filing
• Petition To South Carolina Supreme Court Charges Righthaven With Unauthorized Practice Of Law
• Want To Give Righthaven’s Backers A Taste Of Their Own Medicine?
• California Politician Who Wrote Unconstitutional Anti-Video Game Law Plans To Try Again With New Law
• Righthaven: Blame Our Clueless Lawyer, But Don’t Sanction Us, For Failing To Name Stephens Media As An Interested Party

This Week in 2006

• Nathan Myhrvold’s Bait And Switch Plan On Patent Hoarding
• Why Is The Canadian Government Paying The Copyright Lobby?
• Sony BMG Rootkit Virus Writers Arrested
• RIAA’s Latest Legal Strategy: Sue Globally; Promote Locally
• Freeloaders Are Not The Issue
• Grokster’s Impact On File Sharing? Uh… Not Much

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a reply to another comment about the charges against the guy who just got 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines:

First I was just going to excoriate you for taking an FBI agent’s sworn testimony at face value because there is no reason to assume he is telling 100% truth over telling a story that serves to indict the defendants as per his job, but in just googling his name, I found articles pointing out that you’re citing a complaint that was not accurate and two superseding indictments were later filed which provide different details and trimmed some of the claims from the original.

The details shift, including the claim that there were two shooters and 20-30 rounds fired by the defendants.

Were the defendants making good decisions? Probably not. Would I expect a normal court and a normal jury in a non-authoritarian government to convict some of the defendants of crimes that would warrant some jail time? Sure. Did the defendants other than Song do anything more than what Proud Boys at a blue city protest have done while being tipped off by cops when to leave so they don’t get arrested…? Doesn’t seem like it. Hell, many of the charges read like something ICE did to protesters in Portland and Minnesota and elsewhere.

The problem is that the government isn’t normal. The prosecution, even if citing some facts, is politically motivated, regardless of the validity of some of the charges and claims. That doesn’t mean you have to exonerate every defendant, but you should be smart enough to assume that not every fact claimed by the government is true or, if factual, not every claim is being made for the purpose of transparency but to influence the very judgment you’re making without all the facts or greater context. No reasonable person would expect that they’re going to include exonerating evidence or context that contradicts their narrative in the indictment if such exists.

In second place, it’s eviltimmy with a comment about Elon Musk’s threats against Rep. Khanna for citing The Lancet:

To be clear, The Lancet has been publishing since 1823, and is one of the pillar journals of record for medical science, public health, and epidemiology. If they made a statement like this, it’s highly qualified and vetted, and certainly can’t be dismissed out of hand. Musk going after a sitting Congressperson with a well-sourced opinion is just asking for a vicious Streisanding directed at many of DOGE’s actions while he was(n’t?) running things.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment on that same story from Arianity, in response to someone raising the point that the lawsuit would be doomed to fail:

He doesn’t care about that. The censorship from the cost and the hassle is the point. It’s the Media Matters playbook.

Next, it’s zeiche with a comment about the KIDS Act and age verification online:

this concern for kids safety rings hollow when politicians are also cutting SNAP and Medicare.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Stephen T. Stone responding to a post that labelled Stephen Miller a “homunculus”:

Come on, man, there’s no need to insult homunculi like that.

In second place, it’s Heart of Dawn with a comment about the military’s whoopsie-daisy of rescinding flu vaccine requirements:

Hegseth said he wanted maximum lethality. He never said to whom.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from glenn about the administration’s culture war campaigns:

No one fights wokeness like Trump fights wokeness. At every meeting, at every event, he dozes off anytime he’s sitting for more than 10 minutes without having to make some rambling nonsensical speech.

Finally, things we’re a little slow on the funny side this week, so we’ll close out with a comment from Bloof about the reflecting pool fiasco that only really racked up insightful votes but is, nevertheless, kinda funny too:

Everything is terrorism, unless it’s right wingers doing it.

I can’t wait until he finds another cartoon mobster looking buddy to hire and ‘fix’ the green oxide coating on the statue of liberty for a hundred mil or so, and accidentally poisons masses of people with powdered verdigris after scouring it off with angle grinders. The green coating returning in a year or so would clearly be the work of lib terrorists.

That’s all for this week, folks!

This Week in 2016

• Supreme Court Knocks A Little More Off The 4th Amendment; Gives Cops Another Way To Salvage Illegal Searches
• Seeing Opportunity, Congress Tries To Rush Through Its Plan To Legalize FBI Abuses Citing ‘Orlando!’
• DOJ Insists That Rule 41 Change Is Not Important, Nothing To See Here, Move On Annoying Privacy Activist People
• MPAA Happily Gets Into Bed With Russian State Censor Agency… To Protect Copyright!
• Terrible Ruling In Germany: Digitizing The Public Domain Creates New Copyright
• Proprietary Algorithms Are Being Used To Enhance Criminal Sentences And Preventing Defendants From Challenging Them

This Week in 2011

• Universal Music Goes To War Against Popular Hip Hop Sites & Blogs
• Sony Continues Suing People Who Help Others Modify Their PS3s
• Did Universal Music Declare 50 Cent’s Own Website Is A Pirate Site?
• New Filing Explains How Domain Seizures Violate The First Amendment
• MPAA Directly Lobbies Law Enforcement To Be Its Own Private Police Force
• Drake Tells Universal Music To Stop Taking Down The Music He’s Leaking

This Week in 2006

• Homeland Security Doesn’t Extend To Telemarketing Calls
• Teen Sues MySpace For Not Protecting Her
• Netherlands Is The Latest To Outlaw Search Engines
• Should You Spy On Your Kids’ Every Online Move?
• Do Deep Linking Rules Change If It’s An MP3, Not An HTML File
• Accused Rapist Wants Some Of That Myspace Money, Too

This week, MrWilson takers both top spots on the insightful side. In first place, it’s a comment about the growing global threat of internet age gates:

One of the biggest benefits of the internet is the ability to talk to people outside your personal sphere. It’s similar to the exposure to diversity that a lot of people get when they leave home for college. You can see how a bunch of conservatives who are dismayed by their inability to control what the youth access and talk about would want to lock them out so they can be limited to the indoctrination of their immediate vicinity.

Internet access helps LGBTQ kids when their parents are unsupportive hateful bigots. Internet access helps kids on the spectrum find other people who share their interests and won’t think they’re weird. Internet access helps kids who are being abused finds strategies to report and escape from those situations.

In second place, it’s a reply to someone who felt they needed to give Trump some reluctant half-praise for ending the war in Iran:

This is a completely unnecessary take. It’s entirely possible to be happy some of the bullshit is over without giving credit to the asshole who caused it. You don’t thank the guy who intentionally shat on the floor for taking a dirty rag and smearing it around while pretending he’s cleaning it up.

He already did double down multiple times.

It’s like saying he gets credit for not punching his wife the 50th time after he punched her 49 times before.

He’s not trying to end the war. He’s trying to get out of a mess he created. And he’s leaving a bigger mess than when he started. Anyone who thinks Iran was a problem before should recognize that they’ll be enriched and emboldened by this. Trump has done more good for the Iranian regime than he has for the US at this point.

“Trying to turn the page” here just means he’s going to move on to another fuck up. He’s going to go back to fucking over our European allies or bullying someone else. He got humiliated trying to bully Iran, so he’ll pick an easier target to shore up his ego and pretend he’s still big and smart and powerful.

Absolutely no credit should go to the man who is responsible for all the fuck ups. He’s too old, arrogant, and stupid to learn from his mistakes. And we’re going to pay the cost.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Ninja about what Trump will do next:

He’s rerouting his attention to the Latin America. It’s not only Cuba. It’s every country that doesn’t bow to the US will. He attributed the “terrorist organization” status to PCC and CV, the largest organized crime groups operating in Brazil opening up a window to conduct operations ignoring the country sovereignty under some shitty US law.

He is also attacking Brazilian banking system, mainly what we call Pix, an electronic transaction system that’s free for the ordinary citizen while commercial entities pay a much smaller fee than using Visa and Mastercard for instance. Via USTR. He says it’s unfair competition.

Another major attack vector is against our institution, mainly our supreme court and the electoral system, one of the most advanced and secure in the world. All while tagging along with people that have already been found guilty of trying a coup d’état.

This man is a fucking piece of turd and nobody is stopping him. Hopefully this complete loss and the continued destruction Trump is promoting in all areas of the USA strips some power and the ability to cause so much destruction of future baboons the Republicans will eventually put in power.

Next, it’s a comment from Bloof about RFK Jr. checking out of doing any work:

He’s gotten most of what he wants, but isn’t able to feed raw milk, beef tallow and sodium chlorite to every school kid so he’s acting like the narcissistic trust fund child he is, crossing his arms and sulking because it’s no fun anymore, the day to day work isn’t enjoyable and people are fighting him in the courts.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous quip calling out a bizarre phrase used by another commenter to describe Trump’s supposed “victory” in Iran:

YouTube listslop clickbait be like

“top 10 levels of their government”

You’ll never believe number 7!

In second place, it’s The Phule with one more message about the situation:

Dear Iran: My congratulations for your complete and total victory.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, our first place winner is Stephen T. Stone with a comment about the mess in Microsoft’s Xbox division:

Remember when people actually liked Microsoft as a company?

…yeah, me neither.

Finally, it’s an anonymous comment about a certain annoying venture capitalist:

My main vivid memory of Andreessen is Dan Aykroyd playing him in a 1993 biopic about how he first came to Earth.

That’s all for this week, folks!

This Week in 2016

• Peter Thiel’s Plan To Destroy Gawker Went Way Beyond Hogan’s Case
• Also A Bad Idea: Gawker Exploring Lawsuit Against Peter Thiel For Tortious Interference & Racketeering
• Peter Thiel’s Gawker-Killing Lawyer Now Issuing Bogus Defamation Threats Over Story On Donald Trump’s Hair
• Twitter, Facebook & Google Sued For ‘Material Support For Terrorism’ Over Paris Attacks
• House Intel Boss, Rep. Devin Nunes, Lying To Congress About Attempt To Stop Encryption Backdoors
• Supreme Court Makes It (Slightly) Easier To Award Attorneys’ Fees For Bogus Copyright Lawsuits

This Week in 2011

• The List Of Sites Challenging Domain Seizures
• Rojadirecta Sues US Government, Homeland Security & ICE Over Domain Seizure
• China Seizes Websites, Clamps Down On Speech… Uses Copyright Infringement As The Excuse
• ICE Stalling On More FOIA Requests Concerning Domain Name Seizures
• French Government Looks To Create Great Firewall Of France
• Why Is The Justice Department Pretending US Copyright Laws Apply In The UK?

This Week in 2006

• Recording Industry Still Has Canadian Politicians In Its Pocket
• Sing A Song Of Propaganda For Net Neutrality
• Yes, Everyone Clicks To Skip The Flash Intro On Your Annoying Website
• The RIAA Says No Dancing To Music On YouTube
• Countries Team Up To Better Censor The Internet
• Stop Blaming Technology For Stupidity

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Robert Freetard with a comment on our post about AI replacing workers:

Ultimately the the best positions to replace in a company with AI

The best positions to replace in a company with AI is the CEO and other C* positions.

They do NO physical labor, they cost thousands of times more than other workers, they basically follow the boards instructions (or get removed), An AI with the proper training, a strict logic tree and and as much ethical subroutine as the board would allow would make better decisions than the C* of most corps have over the last 50 years.

In second place, it’s MrWilson (who has a lot of wins this week) with a comment about the NCOSE CEO calling porn a national security threat:

Some porn can be exploitative, but you can’t trust conservatives to actually be interested in protecting vulnerable people since their entire schtick is exploiting the vulnerable, whether its women in a patriarchal society, minorities in a white-dominant culture, immigrants in a xenophobic administration, poor people in a capitalist labor market, consumers in a market where government services would be more efficient and affordable, etc.

They give lip service to banning porn because it’s rides along with hierarchical religious authoritarianism and anti-LGBTQ bigotry. They’ll use obscenity laws to prevent useful education. Teaching children sex education and the concept of consent prevents teenage pregnancy from producing too many poor workers and helps underage girls resist exploitation by creepy dudes who enjoy having naive victims available.

But hey, it’s perfectly okay for billionaires to exploit underaged girls on a private island…

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with another comment about CEOs replacing workers with AI, this time from an anonymous commenter:

I’ve worked with upper management at small-to-medium sized companies, so I don’t know if the same applies to big, public, fortune 500 sized firms, but in my experience, nobody is thinking about how the business will work in 2 years, let alone 10.

Everybody loves making long-term projections; it’s easy to make them look good. But nobody is looking back more than 13-15 months, so they know that whatever they put in these rosy projections will be forgotten in a few board meetings.

If they’re told that AI can provide 50% of the productivity for 10% of the cost of an employee, they do layoffs, and let the business coast while raking in the profits for a few years. When business starts to suffer, nobody does an autopsy of how they got there. Or it’s a Private Equity owned business, they really don’t care, since it will have been sold off to the next sucker in the meantime.

All that is to say, many CEOs are incentivized to lie and make employees suffer much more than they are incentivized to build a sustainable business model for more than 5 quarters (comparing “same quarter, last year”) at a time.

So the problem (and this existed before LLMs), is that there’s a paper-thin margin between your “Bad CEO” and a “Normal, self-interested CEO just doing exactly what the Board wants and expects.”

Next, it’s an anonymous comment about “violent protests” and the media:

Welcome to 1973, when I was one of those dirty hippie commie (etc.) types protesting against the Vietnam War and Nixon and everything else that was wrong, and for civil rights and the environment and everything else that was right. The narrative then — by the administration and its stenographers in the media — was the same as it was now: all protesters are violent and dangerous, therefore they must he beaten and killed.

But the truth in the street was no such thing. Almost nobody was violent, ever. Protests took place constantly which were barely reported because nothing happened but some singing and chanting and some sign-waving. But if one idiot college threw a rock at some obscure protest: oh my god, it’s a violent revolution in progress, call out the National Guard. See, for example: Kent State, where students were brutally, sadistically murdered.

By the way: then, as now, almost all violent confrontations were initiated by the cops. I saw it over and over again, and at first, I was baffled — because I was naive and didn’t understand why they’d do that. But eventually I caught on: plenty of reporters would run with “drugged-up hippies attack our crew-cut shiny police officers” even though the hippies who were drugged-up were much too mellow to attack anyone. This kind of “journalism” pandered to people who were ignorant and afraid — that is, it sold well.

So half a century and change later, it’s the same old song and dance. Jackbooted-thugs who should be defending the right of the people to express their grievances are far more likely to murder them, and then go celebrate with their Klan and Nazi pals. (Could I coin Klanazi? It just kind of rolls off the tongue.) And Pelley is just another compliant cog in the machine, too weak and cowardly to be anything else.

Over on the funny side, it’s a double win for MrWilson, who hit both top spots with a one-two punch on our post about the return of screwworm flies after DOGE’s cuts. In first place:

Hey ChatGPT, from the perspective of someone looking who watches hentai porn in his mother’s basement, does preventing an outbreak of a flesh-eating parasite that will devastate misguided Trump voters and drive up already high beef prices involve DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with yes or no, followed by a brief explanation about why I am also an alpha male and will get a lot of chicks when I brag about cutting funding to childhood cancer research. Do not use ‘this initiative’ or ‘this description’ or anything mean that would hurt my fee fees while I consume my chicken tendies in your response.

And, with a self-reply in second place:

Hey ChatGPT, it’s me again. Can you tell me what exactly DEI is? My lawyer said they’re probably going to ask me to define it in this subpoena hearing that’s coming up soon. Thanks, bro!

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from dfbomb about CBS under Bari Weiss:

CBS coverage is banned in my house because we’re prone to enjoying home-made bread from scratch and if I am watching CBS and smelling toast I have to assume it’s a fucking stroke.

Finally, it’s an anonymous comment about Trump mimicking Denmark’s vaccination schedules:

Trump can’t compare the US to Denmark. Denmark has lots of things that the US will never have.

Like, Greenland.

That’s all for this week, folks!

This Week in 2016

• FBI Won’t Tell Me How Much It Paid To Break Into Syed Farook’s iPhone, Saying It Might Jeopardize Its Investigation
• RIAA Demands Takedown Of ThePirateBay.org, But EasyDNS Refuses Over Lack Of Due Process
• Web Sheriff Accuses Us Of Breaking Basically Every Possible Law For Pointing Out That It’s Abusing DMCA Takedowns
• Another Entity Thinks A Random Bundle Of URLs Is A Legitimate DMCA Takedown Request
• Judge Rejects Oracle’s Attempt To Get Court To Reject Jury Verdict Over Java API Copyright
• Gawker Files For Bankruptcy, Begins Process Of Auctioning Itself Off

This Week in 2011

• Would It Really Be So Bad If The Beatles Were In The Public Domain?
• Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Misuses DMCA To Take Down Video Of Reporter Asking Him Tough Questions
• Homeland Security Appears To Be Stalling On FOIA Requests Concerning Domain Seizures
• Youtube, Creative Commons And Why It’s OK For You To License Your Artwork Any Way You Want
• Feds Ridiculous Prosecution Of Whistleblower Thomas Drake Falling Apart
• Ideas Do Matter, But That Has Nothing To Do With ‘Intellectual Property’

This Week in 2006

• Some 25 Years Later, In-Flight Internet Nearing Reality
• More And More Musicians Seem To Get It
• FCC Chair Trots Out Tired Telecom Trade Show Talk
• Does DRM Impact Democracy?
• Musicians Need Business Models, Not Charity
• MPAA: The Grateful Dead’s Success Was An Abomination Against Nature