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Matt Hodgkinson

In a speech at the High Court of King Diarmaid in 6th Century Ireland, St. Columba aka Colmcille advocated for the right to copy books ~1500 years before the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Ray Corrigan, 2007 oro.open.ac.uk/10332/1/GIKII_C).

Diarmaid ruled against him; Colmcille's subsequent rebellion led to 3000 deaths in the Battle of Cúl Dreimhne. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o

More in @mmasnick's #TechDirt article: techdirt.com/2009/08/20/the-ve

"My friend's claim seeks to apply a worn out law to a new reality. Books are different to other chattels (possessions) and the law should recognise this. Learned men like us, who have received a new heritage of knowledge through books, have an obligation to spread that knowledge, by copying and distributing those books far and wide. I haven't used up Finnian's book by copying it. He still has the original and that original is none the worse for my having copied it. Nor has it decreased in value because I made a transcript of it. The knowledge in books should be available to anybody who wants to read them and has the skills or is worthy to do so; and it is wrong to hide such knowledge away or to attempt to extinguish the divine things that books contain. It is wrong to attempt to prevent me or anyone else from copying it or reading it or making multiple copies to disperse throughout the land. In conclusion I submit that it was permissible for me to copy the book because, although I benefited from the hard work involved in the transcription, I gained no worldly profit from the process, I acted for the good of society in general and neither Finnian nor his book were harmed."
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#OpenAccess#StColumba#Colmcille
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Yappari

Why #TechDirt is Now a #Democracy Blog Whether We Like It or Not -

Important piece by @mmasnick

“the story that matters most is how the dismantling of American institutions threatens everything else we cover. When the fundamental structures that enable innovation, protect civil liberties, and foster open dialogue are under attack, every other tech policy story becomes secondary.”

techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-te

Techdirt · Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
#technology#InfoSec#security
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Wolfgang Hettfleisch

Während traditionelle US-Medien wie #WaPo und #NYT den Weg der #USA in den #Autoritarismus mit "He said, she said"-Tennis freiräumen, findet dort echter #Journalismus neue und durchaus überraschende Fackelträger wie #TechDirt, #Wired oder #RollingStone. Eine tektonische Plattenverschiebung, mit deren Analyse sich alle befassen müssen, die unsere mediale Zukunft gestalten. Den Schlüsseltext dazu hat vor ein paar Tagen @mmasnick geschrieben. Unbedingte #Leseempfehlung!

techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-te

Techdirt · Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
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#OneBillionUsers is a collaboration between Techdirt and Diegetic Games, there is a very fast talking audio podcast with the guys who are producing this game, #techdirt check out from about the 20min point.

They decided to make the cards (the game is an #AndroidApp) be like #emoji we have today, this what makes it look different than the early game of Touring and Mille Bornes

AUDIO is here frtom a webpage (Do Not need SoundCloud account)
m.soundcloud.com/techdirt/one-

One Billion Users is inspired by the public domain game “Touring” which William Janson Roche released in 1906. Touring is a car racing card game, in which you try to go further while putting obstacles on other players.  It is considered to be the first “take that!” style card game, which has been imitated and adapted many times since. The most famous such adaptation was 1954’s Mille Bornes, which was so popular that it briefly outsold Monopoly.  Mille Bornes is almost an exact replica of Touring with just a few small changes. We’ve taken the basic mechanics of Touring and adapted it to a favorite topic of ours: social media. Beyond retheming the game, we’ve added new mechanics including: attracting and stealing influencers, balancing user toxicity, and random events (like tech bubbles) that affect all of the players.
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Screenshot of the AUDIO podcast Techdirt using the Android app, AntennaPod
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Screenshot of the podcast Techdirt using a webpage, no SoundCloud account needed
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This card game was originally from 1906, Touring cards in this image are from 1947 and 1958 versions of the game
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Glyn Moody

#VPN Company #Cyberghost Says We Infringed Its Copyright In An Advertisement We Ran For Them A Decade Ago - techdirt.com/2024/11/22/vpn-co "When companies can blithely claim copyright over content promoting their own products, it shows how little checks there are on false claims." #CopyrightMadness #techdirt

Techdirt · VPN Company Cyberghost Says We Infringed Its Copyright In An Advertisement We Ran For Them A Decade AgoI rarely log into Facebook these days, but I happened to do so last week and was a bit surprised to see this pop up saying that an advertising post we had put up for the VPN service CyberGhost near…
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Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

So… it's a new year… 2024 at long last. It's literally new year's day, and the whole year now follows. We've got 366 days until we're doing the same thing again.

Here are some people that you might consider following for your timeline. This is not an exhaustive list.

#Journalists: @dangoodin, @benjedwards… both writers for @arstechnica

@v7woa@journa.host #AmateurRadio operator and journalist for @VOANews

@mmasnick journalist for #TechDirt

@lorenzofb, @zackwhittaker journalists for #TechCrunch

@codinghorror writer for #CodingHorror

@briankrebs independent #InfoSec writer and journalist

@north@fosstodon.org / @north@ꩰ.com playfully prodding sites' punycode domain compatibility 🙂

#Ukraine

@EugeneMcParland has been posting lots of news about the conflict

@Gala posts lots of photos and videos showing life in Ukraine -- some beautiful scenery

#RetroComputing and #RetroTech

@Gammitin posts lots about restoring classic PCs

@kenshirriff does lots of deep dives into old tech of all sorts… deep analysis of classic ICs, old mechanical avionics, all sorts.

#Gambia

@buba has been posting lots of photos from his native Gambia (west coast of Africa)

#AmateurRadio

@xssfox has been experimenting with all kinds of radio-related things (as well as putting monitors on crooked angles).

#NewYearFollows
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