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| Aug 4, 2026 | Using Trust & Safety Tycoon In The Classroom | Early in the media law and ethics course I teach, as I shift gears from the ethics section to the law and core free speech issues, I try to build a foundation by introducing the many kinds of legal issues they may face as communicators. By ... |
| May 27, 2026 | Telecom Industry Covertly Funds Sleazy Attacks On Community Broadband Efforts In Massachusetts | Like most of the U.S., Western Massachusetts towns and cities have spent decades dealing with expensive, spotty, and slow broadband from private telecom monopolies like Comcast and Verizon. As a result, a lot of these towns and cities have ... |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Trump Is Helping Elon Musk’s Starlink Get Billions In Taxpayer Dollars With No Oversight | We’ve long noted how the 2021 infrastructure bill included $42.5 billion for broadband grants dubbed the Broadband, Equity, Access And Deployment (BEAD) program. The program wasn’t without its warts, but it had the potential to be truly tra... |
| Dec 3, 2025 | Support Techdirt’s Uncompromising Coverage, Get Our First Commemorative Coin | If you’ve been following along, you know why independent voices matter right now. The administration has been attacking institutions left and right. News orgs, law firms, philanthropic funders, universities, you name it. Many are capitulati... |
| Oct 8, 2025 | Superior, Wisconsin Latest City To Build Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network | We’ve long explored how powerful regional broadband monopolies have dominated America, resulting in spotty access, high prices, slow speeds, and terrible customer service. We’ve also long discussed how the U.S. government has done little to... |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict; Our New Trust & Safety Game With The International Committee Of The Red Cross | While members of Congress waste time grandstanding about “censorship” and politicians threaten to jail tech executives for their moderation choices, actual trust & safety teams are quietly doing work that saves lives in active war zones... |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Why Making Social Media Companies Liable For User Content Doesn’t Do What Many People Think It Will | Brazil’s Supreme Court appears close to ruling that social media companies should be liable for content hosted on their platforms—a move that appears to represent a significant departure from the country’s pioneering Marco Civil internet la... |
| May 7, 2025 | Community-Owned Networks Offering Locals Dirt Cheap Broadband After Republicans Dismantle Federal Low Income Program | Last year Trumplicans killed a popular program that provided poor people with $30 off of their monthly broadband bill. The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) was, unsurprisingly, very popular, with more than 23 million Americans be... |
| Apr 9, 2025 | The Battle for the Internet: Censorship vs. Innovation | The internet is a vast ocean. It’s a place where ideas flow freely, where voices rise and fall like waves. But now, a storm brews on the horizon. Congress is once again considering site-blocking legislation. This isn’t just a minor squall; ... |
| Apr 7, 2025 | Site-Blocking Legislation Is Back. It’s Still A Terrible Idea. | More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The backlash was immediate and... |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Former Boss Of $42.5B Broadband Subsidy Program Warns It’s Being Ruined To Benefit Elon Musk | There are more than $42.5 billion in broadband grants headed to the states courtesy of the 2021 infrastructure bill. The GOP voted against the bill, but have repeatedly turned around and taken credit for its looming benefits among our broad... |
| Mar 13, 2025 | The Tug of War Over Broadband: Who Wins? | In the world of broadband, a storm brews. The U.S. government is poised to distribute $42.5 billion in grants, courtesy of the 2021 infrastructure bill. This money is meant to bridge the digital divide, but the waters are murky. The GOP, on... |
| Mar 12, 2025 | $42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk | We’ve often noted how there are $42.5 billion in broadband grants headed to the states courtesy of the 2021 infrastructure bill. The GOP voted against the bill, but have repeatedly turned around and taken credit for its looming benefits amo... |
| Feb 27, 2025 | The Trump Admin Thinks Affordable Fiber Broadband Is ‘Woke’ | It’s understandably not going to get the same attention as the dismantling of numerous government agencies at the hands of rich unelected manbabies, but the Trump administration is also taking aim at all the promising parts of the 2021 infr... |
| Feb 24, 2025 | ARPA Is Quietly Funding Cheap ($50-$65 A Month) Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Access To Long Neglected Neighborhoods | The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) continues to quietly help fund a number of extremely popular community-owned, open access fiber deployments that are challenging entrenched U.S. monopoly power, and driving super cheap, community-own... |
| Feb 6, 2025 | Trump’s NTIA Pick Prepares To Redirect $42.5 Billion In Infrastructure Bill Broadband Grants To Trump Cronies | It’s understandably not going to get the same attention as the dismantling of numerous government agencies at the hands of rich unelected manbabies, but the Trump administration is also taking aim at all the promising parts of the 2021 infr... |
| Dec 9, 2024 | Trump 2.0 To Slather Elon Musk’s Starlink With Billions In Taxpayer Subsidies It Doesn’t Deserve | SpaceX’s Starlink service can be an absolute game changer for those completely out of range of broadband access. Getting several hundred megabits per second in the middle of nowhere is a decidedly good thing, assuming you can afford the $12... |
| Aug 2, 2024 | New York State Community-Owned Broadband Networks Get $60 Million In Funding | We’ve mentioned a few times that there are more than $42 billion in broadband subsides about to drop in the laps of state leaders thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill. Since the bill gives individual states leeway on how this money is spe... |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Judge Experiments With ChatGPT, And It’s Not As Crazy As It Sounds | Would you freak out if you found out a judge was asking ChatGPT a question to help decide a case? Would you think that it was absurd and a problem? Well, one appeals court judge felt the same way… until he started exploring the issue in one... |
| May 15, 2024 | Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments | Tired of being underserved and overbilled by shitty regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA — (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency). The inter-local agency collaborat... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Hollywood Believes The Time Is Ripe To Bring Back SOPA | It’s been twelve years since the big SOPA/PIPA fight. I’ve been talking with a few folks lately about how it feels like many people have either forgotten that story or weren’t paying attention when it happened. Two years ago, we did a 10-ye... |
| Mar 26, 2024 | If You’re Worried About How Elections Might Play Out This Year, We Can Help You Prepare With Threatcast 2024 | There are a lot of elections worldwide, and these events invariably raise significant concerns regarding potential manipulation, particularly in light of emerging technologies such as generative AI. To help address these concerns, we are re... |
| Mar 11, 2024 | Biden Mostly Ignored The Internet In His State Of The Union, But He Still Has Some Terrible Ideas About It In His Agenda | Every year, the President lays out the administration’s major agenda in the State of the Union address. For those of us who cover tech policy, there’s always some fear that something dumb will be said. In the last couple of years, Biden pus... |
| Feb 6, 2024 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 379: Is the Internet Killing Culture? (No. Don’t Be Stupid.) | A couple weeks ago, we released the 2024 edition of our Sky Is Rising report about the state of the entertainment industries. Last week, Mike and I joined Corbin Barthold on Techfreedom’s Tech Policy Podcast for a discussion about the repor... |
| Jan 22, 2024 | The Sky Is Rising 2024 Edition: Rather Than Destroying Culture, The Internet Has Saved The Content Industries | Read the latest edition of The Sky Is Rising at The Copia Institute » |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Even If You Hate Both AI And Section 230, You Should Be Concerned About The Hawley/Blumenthal Bill To Remove 230 Protections From AI | Over the past few days I’ve been hearing lots of buzz claiming that either today or tomorrow Senator Josh Hawley is going to push to “hotline” the bill he and Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced months back to explicitly exempt AI from Se... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | California Activists Say State Isn’t Being Transparent About How Billions In Broadband Subsidies Are Being Spent | Two years ago the state of California unveiled a major broadband plan that, among other things, aims to spend $3.5 billion to create a massive, open access “middle mile” fiber network in a bid to boost competition. It’s part of a broader qu... |
| Oct 17, 2023 | Trust & Safety Tycoon: Try Your Hand At Managing A Social Media Trust & Safety Team | Play Trust & Safety Tycoon in your browser on desktop or mobile » |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Activists Say California Is Backtracking On Plan For Statewide Affordable Broadband | While the California legislature often screws up tech policy, they’ve generally been pretty good on broadband. At least in relation to most U.S. states. California was among the first in the country to pass a net neutrality law after the te... |
| Aug 4, 2023 | Comcast, Centurylink Fail To Derail Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network In Bountiful, Utah | More than 600 communities across the U.S. have decided to build their own broadband networks after decades of predatory behavior, slow speeds, and high prices by regional telecom monopolies. |
| Jul 26, 2023 | After FCC Debacle, Gigi Sohn Shifts Focus To Challenging Comcast, AT&T With Community-Built Broadband Networks | Last March, popular telecom and media reformer Gigi Sohn’s appointment to the FCC fell apart, after telecom and media giants (with the GOP’s help) waged a year long lobbying and propaganda campaign falsely framing her as a radical (The Verg... |
| May 11, 2023 | Moderator Mayhem: A Mobile Game To See How Well YOU Can Handle Content Moderation | Play Moderator Mayhem in your browser » |
| Apr 27, 2023 | The EU Designates 17 Sites As ‘Very Large Online Platforms’ Subject To DSA’s Most Stringent Rules | I’ve been criticizing the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) approach to internet regulations, because they’re doing this “wink, wink, nudge, nudge” bit in which they insist that the DSA is not regulating speech, but then they admit that the p... |
| Apr 12, 2023 | Our New Report Explores How Existing Internet Regulations Around The Globe Have Fared. Short Answer? Not Well | Over the last decade or so, there’s been a growing chorus of people insisting (misleadingly) that the internet is a “wild west” that needs regulation. The reasons stated for this apparently necessary regulation change over time, but the und... |
| Dec 30, 2022 | New Year’s Message: The Opportunity To Build A Better Internet Is Here. Right Now. | Long term readers of Techdirt know that, since 2008, I’ve written a final post of the year on reasons to remain optimistic. It started when some people kept telling me that when they read what I wrote I sounded angry and frustrated, but whe... |
| Oct 6, 2022 | Red Tree Venture Capital Announces Closing of $272 Million Inaugural Fund | |
| Oct 6, 2022 | Red Tree Venture Capital Announces Closing of $272 Million Inaugural Fund | West Coast-Centric, Early Stage-Biased Venture Capital Firm Focused on Investing in Life Science Innovation Emerging from Premier West Coast Academic and Research Institutions
Led by an Accomplished Team with More than 60 years of Combined ... |
| Aug 4, 2022 | Google Fiber’s 2016 Expansion Freeze May Be Coming To An End | When Google Fiber launched back in 2010, it was heralded as a game changer for the broadband industry. Google Fiber, we were told, would revolutionize the industry by taking Silicon Valley money and disrupting the viciously uncompetitive an... |
| Aug 3, 2022 | Telecom Lobbyists At WISPA, NCTA Throw Hissy Fit Over Doomed Net Neutrality Bill | This week we noted how the Democratic party had introduced a new two-page bill that would simply give the FCC even clearer authority to restore net neutrality. Of course the bill won’t pass this corrupt Congress, was barely noticed in the s... |
| Jul 29, 2022 | Comcast Loses 500k Video Customers, Fails To Add Broadband Users For First Time In History | Comcast had a particularly ugly second quarter, according to the company’s latest earnings report. The nation’s biggest cable giant not only lost half a million pay TV subscribers as the cord cutting trend continued, it failed to add any ne... |
| Jul 19, 2022 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 326: Broadband Competition Is Just A Click Away | Yesterday, we released a new report from the Copia Institute, written by Karl Bode, about the state of broadband competition and the great potential of an open access fiber model: Just A Click Away: Broadband Competition In America. On toda... |
| Jul 18, 2022 | Just A Click Away: How To Improve Broadband Competition | Read our new report on broadband competition in America » |
| Apr 27, 2022 | Introducing Startup Trail: A Game About The Policy Challenges Tech Startups Face | Play the game and test your skills » |
| Dec 31, 2021 | New Year's Message: The Arc Of The Moral Universe Is A Twisty Path | As long term readers of Techdirt know, each year since 2008 my final post of the year has been a kind of reflection on optimism. This tradition started after I had a few people ask how come it seemed that I was so optimistic when I seemed t... |
| Dec 3, 2021 | Federal Court Dismisses Another Negligence Suit Against Online Gun Marketplace Armslist But Says Section 230 Doesn't Protect It | Two years ago, the Wisconsin Supreme Court handed down a pretty important decision, only somewhat tempered by its limited jurisdiction. It decided Section 230 immunity applied to the buying and selling of guns via a third-party platform, Ar... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 285: Welcome To Money City | Earlier today, we announced the release of an open source playkit for Money City, our new game about the future of money that was designed and run for MozFest 2021. For this week's episode of the podcast, Mike is joined by two of the people... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 285: Welcome To Money City | Earlier today, we announced the release of an open source playkit for Money City, our new game about the future of money that was designed and run for MozFest 2021. For this week’s episode of the podcast, Mike is joined by two of the people... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Money City: Our New Game To Explore The Future Of Money Is Now Available To Everyone | As folks may know, over the past few years, the Copia Institute (the think tank arm of Techdirt) has been building out a series of games -- both of the tabletop variety and for events (both in person and virtual). It began with an election ... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Money City: Our New Game To Explore The Future Of Money Is Now Available To Everyone | As folks may know, over the past few years, the Copia Institute (the think tank arm of Techdirt) has been building out a series of games — both of the tabletop variety and for events (both in person and virtual). It began with an election s... |
| May 7, 2021 | Wired's Big 230 Piece Has A Narrative To Tell | I remember when Wired was the key magazine for understanding the potential of innovation. I subscribed all the way back in 1993 (not the first issue, but soon afterward, after a friend gave me a copy of their launch issue). Over the years, ... |
| May 7, 2021 | Wired's Big 230 Piece Has A Narrative To Tell | I remember when Wired was the key magazine for understanding the potential of innovation. I subscribed all the way back in 1993 (not the first issue, but soon afterward, after a friend gave me a copy of their launch issue). Over the years, ... |
| Dec 14, 2020 | USA Today Publishes Yet Another Bogus OpEd Against 230, Completely Misrepresents The Law | Another day, another op-ed that totally misrepresents Section 230. This one comes from USA Today, and is written by faux-conservative Rachel Bovard, who is doing this on purpose. Sometimes we see op-eds where it’s clear the author is unfami... |
| Dec 14, 2020 | USA Today Publishes Yet Another Bogus OpEd Against 230, Completely Misrepresents The Law | Another day, another op-ed that totally misrepresents Section 230. This one comes from USA Today, and is written by faux-conservative Rachel Bovard, who is doing this on purpose. Sometimes we see op-eds where it's clear the author is unfami... |
| Sep 23, 2020 | Busting Still More Myths About Section 230, For You And The FCC | The biggest challenge we face in advocating for Section 230 is how misunderstood it is. Instead of getting to argue about its merits, we usually have to spend our time disabusing people of their mistaken impressions about what the statute d... |
| Sep 23, 2020 | Busting Still More Myths About Section 230, For You And The FCC | The biggest challenge we face in advocating for Section 230 is how misunderstood it is. Instead of getting to argue about its merits, we usually have to spend our time disabusing people of their mistaken impressions about what the statute d... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | NTIA Follows Trump's Unconstitutional Order To Request The FCC Review Section 230 | As we mentioned on Friday, on Monday, the NTIA followed through on a key part of Trump’s executive order on Section 230, asking the FCC to weigh in on interpreting the law. Everything about this is crazy. The NTIA request was almost certain... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | NTIA Follows Trump's Unconstitutional Order To Request The FCC Review Section 230 | As we mentioned on Friday, on Monday, the NTIA followed through on a key part of Trump's executive order on Section 230, asking the FCC to weigh in on interpreting the law. Everything about this is crazy. The NTIA request was almost certain... |
| Mar 13, 2020 | As Congress Explore New Awful Copyright Plans, Maximalists Look To Rewrite The History Of SOPA/PIPA | As we noted, there’s an effort underway, lead by Senator Thom Tillis’ office, to rewrite copyright laws in a manner that is even “friendlier” to Hollywood — which is kind of insane, given just how far the laws have been bent to favor Hollyw... |
| Mar 13, 2020 | As Congress Explore New Awful Copyright Plans, Maximalists Look To Rewrite The History Of SOPA/PIPA | As we noted, there's an effort underway, lead by Senator Thom Tillis' office, to rewrite copyright laws in a manner that is even "friendlier" to Hollywood -- which is kind of insane, given just how far the laws have been bent to f... |
| Dec 31, 2019 | New Year's Message: Opportunities Come From Unexpected Places | It's that time again. Ever since 2008, my final post of the year has been a reflection of some sort -- not necessarily on stories from the past year, but usually somewhat of an echo of what inspired me to write the original post in 2008. Pe... |
| Dec 31, 2019 | New Year's Message: Opportunities Come From Unexpected Places | It’s that time again. Ever since 2008, my final post of the year has been a reflection of some sort — not necessarily on stories from the past year, but usually somewhat of an echo of what inspired me to write the original post in 2008. Peo... |
| Dec 20, 2019 | Study: Hadopi Has Been Great For Big Artists And Labels, Bad For The Spread Of Culture And Smaller Or New Artists | Hadopi, the French law built to punish copyright infringers in graduated steps, was always controversial. In addition to many in the public scoffing at the punishment ramp the law put on the public, the actual effects of the law have been m... |
| Oct 7, 2019 | Music Piracy Continues To Drop Dramatically, But The Industry Hates To Admit That Because It Ruins The Narrative | This was wholly predictable, of course. Back in 2015, we released a detailed analytical report showing that the absolute easiest and most effective way to reduce piracy was to to enable more and better licensed services that actually gave u... |
| Jul 8, 2019 | If You Want To Kill Google And Facebook, Leaving Section 230 Alone Is Your Best Hope | We recently released our Don't Shoot The Message Board report, which details, with actual numbers, evidence of how Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has encouraged and enabled a tremendous amount of investment in thousands of in... |
| Jul 8, 2019 | If You Want To Kill Google And Facebook, Leaving Section 230 Alone Is Your Best Hope | We recently released our Don’t Shoot The Message Board report, which details, with actual numbers, evidence of how Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has encouraged and enabled a tremendous amount of investment in thousands of in... |
| Jun 25, 2019 | Don't Shoot The Message Board: A Data Driven Look At The Impact Of Section 230 On Innovation And The Economy | Read our new report on intermediary liability » |
| Feb 19, 2019 | EU Commission Decides To Mock The Public; Insists Fears About EU Copyright Directive Are All Myths | On Thursday, the European Commission posted — on its official Medium page — an astoundingly juvenile and obnoxious post, lashing out at those who have complained that Articles 11 and 13 in the EU Copyright Directive will be destructive. The... |
| Jan 29, 2019 | Study Shows Piracy Can Sometimes Be Beneficial To Markets & Consumers Alike | If you’ve been around Techdirt for more than a few weeks, you probably know that one of our core arguments is that piracy should be seen as a competitor, not as some kind of mad demon whose antics can only be thwarted by equally demonic cou... |
| Dec 11, 2018 | While Everyone's Busy, Hollywood & Record Labels Suggest Congress Bring Back SOPA | There are a million different things going on these days when it comes to preventing the powers that be from destroying the internet that we know and love. There are dozens of mostly bad ideas for regulating the internet here in the US, and... |
| Aug 21, 2018 | Only 12% Of Music Revenue Goes To Actual Artists | Back in 2010, we posted an infographic from The Root showing just how little money that was spent on music actually went to the artist: |
| Aug 9, 2018 | Platforms, Speech And Truth: Policy, Policing And Impossible Choices | Warning 1: I’m about to talk about an issue that has a lot of nuance in it and no clear “good” answers — and it’s also one that many people have already made up their minds on one way or the other, and both sides will probably not really li... |
| Aug 6, 2018 | Yet Another Study Shows You Beat Piracy Through Innovation, Rather Than Enforcement | Three years ago we released our Carrot or the Stick? paper, in which we explored piracy rates in a bunch of different countries, and looked at what appeared to be most effective in reducing piracy: greater legal enforcement or innovative ne... |
| Jan 24, 2018 | Censorship By Weaponizing Free Speech: Rethinking How The Marketplace Of Ideas Works | It should be no surprise that I’m an unabashed supporter of free speech. Usually essays that start that way are then followed with a “but…” and that “but…” undermines everything in that opening sentence. This is not such an essay. However, ... |
| Sep 18, 2017 | Yes, You Can Believe In Internet Freedom Without Being A Shill | You may have noticed lately that there’s an increasing (and increasingly coordinated) effort to paint today’s biggest and most successful companies as some kind of systemic social threat that needs to be reined in. As veteran tech journalis... |
| Jul 7, 2017 | Study: Dutch Piracy Rates In Free Fall Due Mostly To The Availability Of Legal Alternatives | The claim that the best way to combat content piracy is to offer good legal alternatives and make them widely available isn’t exactly breaking new ground. Case studies made out of several nations’ piracy rates, such as in Australia and Norw... |
| Jun 8, 2017 | Techdirt’s Mike Masnick says lawsuit has already had a chilling effect on his site | Techdirt is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Shiva Ayyadurai, a man who claims to have invented email. But regardless of the outcome, founder and CEO Mike Masnick said that the $15 million lawsuit has already had a big impact on h... |
| Mar 31, 2017 | Spotify (Basically) Tells Its Free Users, 'Go Pirate!' | Spotify is pulling the plug on free access to some artists’ newest releases, according to The Guardian. Currently, Spotify’s 50 million paid users fork over £10/month to play their music offline without ads, but now they’re also getting exc... |
| Feb 23, 2017 | Why The DMCA's Notice & Takedown Already Has First Amendment Problems… And RIAA/MPAA Want To Make That Worse | The Copyright Office’s study concerning Section 512 of the DMCA (the notice-and-takedown/safe harbors part of the law) had its second comment period end this week — which is why you’re seeing stories about how the RIAA is suddenly talking a... |
| Jan 30, 2017 | Ding Dong: Silly Six Strikes Copyright Infringement Scheme Is Dead | The pointless “six strikes” plan — a hilarious “voluntary agreement” between some big ISPs and the MPAA & RIAA is no more. It’s dead. It never should have lived, and of course, the MPAA is now blaming everyone but itself for the failure... |
| Sep 21, 2016 | Yet Another Report Says More Innovation, Rather Than More Enforcement, Reduces Piracy | It’s not like many of us haven’t been saying this for years: but fighting piracy through greater copyright enforcement doesn’t work. It’s never worked and it’s unlikely to ever work. A year ago, we released our big report, The Carrot or the... |
| Sep 21, 2016 | Stop Piracy? Legal Alternatives Beat Legal Threats, Research Shows | Yesterday the RIAA announced the biggest growth in recorded music sales since the late 1990s, a healthy 8.1% increase compared to the year before.
The record numbers were achieved despite the widespread availability of pirated music. So wha... |
| Sep 19, 2016 | How Pirates Shaped The Internet As We Know It | Today is “International Talk like a Pirate Day.” While it’s a lot of fun to act like a pirate, drink rum and catch up on Errol Flynn movies, piracy is also a serious issue with real economic and legal significance. As electronic devices bec... |
| Sep 7, 2016 | Reminder: Next Week Techdirt's Greenhouse Salon: The Battle For Copyright Reform | As we recently announced, on Monday, we’ll be hosting the first in a new series of events we’re running, called the Techdirt Greenhouse Salons. The first one is on The Battle For Copyright Reform, and will take place Monday evening in San F... |
| Sep 1, 2016 | Announcing The Techdirt Greenhouse Salon: The Battle For Copyright Reform | Several years ago, we hosted a series of really fun events called the Techdirt Greenhouse, which involved getting a lot of smart people together and actively brainstorming on a variety of topics. We?ve been wanting to bring back the Greenho... |
| Jul 11, 2016 | As UK Piracy Falls To Record Lows, Government Still Wants To Put Pirates In Jail For 10 Years | Last fall, our think tank, the Copia Institute, released a paper, The Carrot or the Stick? which detailed how innovation in the form of convenient, appealing and reasonably priced legal content streaming services appeared to be the most pow... |
| Apr 28, 2016 | Lessons From Prince's Legacy And Struggle With Digital Music Markets | Undeniably, Prince’s death last week marked the loss of a true musical genius and maverick. In his life, he was known for being a talented musical innovator with flamboyant clothes and a contrarian streak. He was adept at a range of instrum... |
| Mar 4, 2016 | Tech Companies Ask European Commission Not To Wreck The Internet — And You Can Too | Late last year, we told you about a worrisome effort by the European Commission to saddle the internet with unnecessary regulations. They had released an online “consultation” which was ostensibly part of the effort to create a “Digital Sin... |
| Feb 17, 2016 | Grammy's Can't Get Streaming Or Audio Right, But Assure You That Free Spotify Is Kinda Like ISIS | We already wrote about how CBS fucked up internet streaming of the Grammy’s on Monday night, but a few folks have sent in the various stories about how Grammy’s boss Neil Portnow did his now annual whine about how evil tech companies don’t ... |
| Jan 3, 2016 | Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of 2015 At Techdirt | It’s that time again! This week, we’re looking back at all of 2015 and rounding up the top three comments in both the insightful and funny categories. For those who are still interested in the winners for this week only, here’s first and se... |
| Dec 30, 2015 | New Year's Message: Keep Moving Forward | Since 2008, I’ve always concluded the year with a post in which I take a step back and reflect on (1) how I continue to remain optimistic despite lots of negative news (2) the overall forward progress of innovation, even while so many stori... |
| Dec 16, 2015 | Keep The Internet Competitive And Innovative: Speak Out Now | There are only two weeks left to submit your comments. Act soon to ensure your voice is heard! |
| Dec 16, 2015 | EU's Own Survey On Internet Regulations Broken; Please Urge Them Not To Break The Internet Too | Last week, we wrote about an important survey put online by the EU Commission, asking for feedback on its plans to regulate certain key aspects of the internet. We noted that the survey itself was cumbersome and confusing, and because of th... |
| Dec 10, 2015 | This Survey Sucks, And The Internet Needs You To Fill It Out | |
| Dec 9, 2015 | Only A Few Days Left To Take Advantage Of The Techdirt Gear Clearance Sale | In case you haven’t heard, we’re holding a huge clearance sale over in the Insider Shop! We’re getting rid of all our existing Techdirt gear to clear the way for new merchandise in the future — so now is your last chance to pick something u... |
| Nov 27, 2015 | Coincidentally Just In Time For Black Friday, It's The Techdirt Gear Clearance Sale! | We never planned to have a Black Friday event, but we have been getting ready to hold big sale for a while now, and it just so happens to have serendipitously coincided with the (in)famous shopping event — so here it is! Starting today, we’... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | MPAA Whacs A Few More Moles, Declares Premature Victory While Making Movie Fans Worse Off | The MPAA gleefully announced on Tuesday that it had shut down the main fork of Popcorn Time along with torrent site YTS (and its associated release group YIFY). Of course, if we go back through the history of file sharing, we can find plent... |
| Oct 28, 2015 | October Content Creator Of The Month: Ross Pruden Contributing To The Public Domain | Last month, as a feature of the Copia Institute, we kicked off our Content Creator of the Month series, in an attempt to profile content creators who are doing new and compelling things to embrace the internet in innovative ways. Here’s the... |
| Oct 11, 2015 | Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt | This week, over at the Copia Institute, we released our new report comparing the impact of anti-piracy enforcement to that of innovative new entertainment services. That One Guy posted a lengthy rejoinder that was voted most insightful comm... |
| Oct 8, 2015 | The Right Way To Stop Piracy | Read the new report from The Copia Institute,
The Carrot Or The Stick: Innovation vs. Anti-Piracy Enforcement » |