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Fiction By Timothy Geigner, Now Available At The Techdirt Insider Shop
As some of you may know, in addition to posts and comments for Techdirt, Tim Geigner aka Dark Helmet also writes novels. Today we’re happy to announce that all three of his “conspiracy fiction” titles...
View ArticleDavid Cameron Says Snooper's Charter Is Necessary Because Fictional Crime...
You may recall the stories from the past couple years about the so-called “snooper’s charter” in the UK — a system to further legalize the government’s ability to spy on pretty much all communications....
View ArticleCreepypasta Feels Compelled To State That Its Stories Are Fiction & It's Not...
I won’t say I told you so, but…you know what, screw it, I told you so. I told you the horror story out of Waukesha, Wisconsin, where two girls attacked a friend, nearly killing her, invoking the name...
View ArticleAppeals Court Bounces Defamation Suit Against American Hustle Over Microwave...
Nearly two years ago, we wrote about a bonkers lawsuit against the makers of the film American Hustle, brought by a journalist who used to make remarks about what microwaves do to the food we eat. The...
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 231: Working Futures, Part Two
A few weeks ago, we sat down with some of the authors from Working Futures, our new anthology of short stories about the future of work (pick up your copy from Amazon in ebook or paperback format!)...
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Get The Working Futures Anthology For Just 99¢ Until Monday!
Get the Kindle edition of Working Futures for just 99¢ » It’s now been a month since we released Working Futures, our anthology of 14 speculative fiction stories about the future of work. And since...
View ArticleAuthor Tries To Trademark The Word 'Dark' For All Of Literary Fiction
For whatever reason, while we see a ton of instances of someone trying to trademark a word or phrase that is absolutely generic and not a source identifier, often it seems some of the most ridiculous...
View ArticlePrivate Prison Company Sues Netflix Over Use Of Logo In 'Messiah'
When we last talked about the Geo Group, a company making hundreds of millions of dollars running private prisons, one of its executives was attempting to improve the company’s reputation by...
View ArticleNew York Court Reminds Native American Tribe That Suing For Libel Isn't An...
We give government agencies a whole lot of power. That’s the way the government works: we, the people, allow agencies to perform their duties with minimal interference and, in exchange, we...
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 359: Red Team Blues, Part Two (With Cory Doctorow)
Okay, now we’re getting back to the plan. Two weeks ago we featured an excerpt from the audiobook of Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow’s new (and excellent) novel, and promised that we’d soon be joined by...
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