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In 2015, Techdirt allowed readers to remove web ads. [15] In 2009, English singer Lily Allen created a blog critical of music piracy in which she plagiarized an entire post from Techdirt. [16] Following an exchange with Techdirt, debating hypocrisy in the musician's handling of copyright infringement, Allen shut down her blog. [17]
Michael Masnick (born December 8, 1974 [1]) is an American editor and entrepreneur.He is the CEO and founder of Techdirt, a weblog. [2]He coined the term "Streisand effect" on the Techdirt blog in January 2005 and was interviewed about it three years later on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
The woman's husband wrote a blog post about the situation, which was then picked up by Techdirt [73] and Consumerist. [74] By the end of the week, the company was reviewed by the Better Business Bureau, which later revoked its accreditation. [75]
Moderator Mayhem is a casual web-based video game designed by Engine, Randy Lubin, and Mike Masnick of Techdirt targeted towards policymakers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was published in May 2023. The game is about the challenges of content moderation of user-generated content on social media .
Early articles by blog site Techdirt [4] and technology news site Techspot [3] show that there is an interest to see how this proposal will pan out in the wake of the successful Reddit campaign to halt the passage of SOPA and PIPA. Some technology journalists wrote tongue-in-cheek commentaries on the situation. [5]
Techdirt editor Mike Masnick also criticized the decision, arguing that the fundamental question the court has considered was "whether or not the length of the cable matters in determining whether something is infringing or not".
The Washington Post also followed up with a correction of errors in its earlier report on the Smithsonian acquisition, stating that it incorrectly referred to Ayyadurai as the inventor of electronic messaging; the 'bcc', 'cc', 'to' and 'from' fields existed previously; Ayyadurai had not been honored as the "inventor of email". [82]
Stream ripping (also called stream recording) is the process of saving data streams to a file. The process is sometimes referred to as destreaming.. Stream ripping is most often referred in the context of saving audio or video from streaming media websites and services such as YouTube outside of the officially-provided means of offline playback (if any) using unsanctioned software and tools.