Each week we have a community member to publish his "favorite Techdirt posts a week." Since Father's Day morning, I realized this week I should ask my father, an avid reader of Techdirt.





Well, it's a gift. I am the father of Mike and this is my Father's day (or less). Leo Techdirt on a regular basis and with very rare exceptions that do not express. I followed some of the most controversial comments currents of curiosity and I found it surprising that articles on Techdirt generate these intense reactions. Anyway, I'll quote here what I consider the most interesting articles for me on Techdirt last week.

I followed with some interest the case of Rapidshare, you just enter a new phase in the rabbit hole, as seen in the United States continues to trying to block their lawyers use Megaupload, says it has jurisdiction over the world.



has been my experience that the arguments using logic, jurisprudence, constitutional reasoning and common sense sometimes almost

never

convince a person or organization has the power to reconsider the way they started. Most people, regardless of their background, knowledge or instincts, go on the defensive if challenged. Almost always. The problem seems to be extra strong when the person or organization that is really powerful - and the Department of Justice is almost as powerful as you can get out of the army. It challenges the Department of Justice in what has come to refer to their territory and they will get a whale of a lot of recoil. They have lots of weapons and restrict the use of hardly any of its arsenal. And you can do to challenge mighty expensive. So my bias says it's generally a good thing to push too far when they. Thus there is a chance (probably a small chance) that cooler heads or judicial review to fix things. This is probably not the way to bet, however.



We live in a world defined by the suffixes. Com,. Org, etc. But that's about to change, perhaps in a big way. As indicated in the Rip Off: .. Highlights of Top-Level Domain melee.



Currently there are 22 top level domains (Como net. Xxx, etc.), but for an obscene amount of money ($ 375 million) will not be until 1000 to the end of 2013. ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), is a nonprofit, charged $ 185,000 for the implementation of 1930 organizations and business groups), so that their proposals into consideration. The process, domain names possible, competitors who have proposed the same names and some potential problems with the process and the proposed names are presented in this article.
Whatever the original purpose of copyright was a heavy dose of law (and a compatible track) led us to where the level of barriers to Normal trade came to new heights. I was surprised to know that if I make a product such as a mixer, outside the U.S., and put a small copyright symbol in the mixer, which is used blender can not be resold by the original purchaser to a third party without permission of the copyright owner. For more details on the facts of these nuts and other life in the study of copyright in the United States: Why the Supreme Court must ensure that the sale of an iPhone is not Violation of an Author used.

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