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While there’s no doubt illegal fentanyl use is one of the leading causes of death in this nation, the DEA’s persistent hysteria hasn’t done anything to make anyone safer. Faced with the fac...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/23/because-its-done-such-a-great-job-policing-illegal-drugs-the-dea-decides-its-time-to-start-engaging-in-legal-drug-hysteria/

In a world where copyright law has run amok, even creating a silly parody song now requires a massive legal disclaimer to avoid getting sued. That’s the absurd reality we live in, as highlighte...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/23/when-you-need-to-post-a-lengthy-legal-disclaimer-with-your-parody-song-you-know-copyright-is-broken/

Last week, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to advance the Protecting and Enhancing Public Access to Codes Act, or the Pro Codes Act (H.R. 1631), to the full House. The ...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/23/no-one-can-own-the-law-so-why-is-congress-advancing-a-bill-to-extend-copyright-to-it/

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is an utter asshat. Not only is he the chosen defender of litigation over unconstitutional laws passed by an equally idiotic legislature, but he’s also the man...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/23/top-prosecutor-in-texas-doesnt-understand-court-rulings-celebrates-obvious-scotus-loss-as-a-win/

Dive into Godot – a rising star in the game engine world. You’ll learn to create platformers, RPGs, strategy games, FPS games, and more as you master this free and open-source engine with eas...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/23/daily-deal-the-2024-complete-godot-stack-development-bundle-6/

Privacy issues have been at the root cause of so many concerns about the internet, but so many attempts to regulate privacy have been a total mess. There’s now a more thoughtful attempt to regu...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/23/any-privacy-law-is-going-to-require-some-compromise-is-apra-the-right-set-of-tradeoffs/

Major TV providers lost another 5 million paying TV subscribers last year, as users increasingly jump from fat and expensive cable bundles, to streaming. At the same time, a lot of the executives...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/23/the-future-of-streaming-tv-more-pointless-mergers-and-making-it-harder-to-cancel/

Open access publishing, which allows people to read academic papers without a subscription, seems such a good idea. It means that anyone, anywhere in the world, can read the latest research witho...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/22/more-open-access-training-for-academics-would-lead-to-more-open-access/

Well, that was fast. It was just earlier this month that we talked about some interesting new rules Apple instituted for its App Store when it comes specifically to emulation apps. While emulator...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/22/first-approved-emulator-app-appears-in-apples-app-store-under-new-rules/

Is the US government allowed to step in to deal with foreign influence on social media or not? According to at least some members of Congress, the answer appears to be “yes, when we dislike wha...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/22/lawmakers-who-insisted-the-us-govt-should-never-combat-foreign-influence-online-vote-to-combat-tiktoks-foreign-influence-online/