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Here's yet another reminder that copyright is the enemy of culture: someone forced The Internet Archive to remove a collection of MTV content. Within their rights, probably, but WHY? techdirt.com/article…

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Someone new to loathe: Heath Freeman. His business model: 1) buy a struggling local newspaper; 2) fire all its journalists and publish garbage; 3) claim that Google is the problem and owes him money for sending him traffic. techdirt.com/article…

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In today's installment of 'Nintendo Really Hates You', the company is working to shut down yet another fan project, this time an upgrade of the classic Mario 64. techdirt.com/article…

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Yelp and GrubHub are screwing restaurant owners, who have little recourse. vice.com/en_us/artic…

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The pandemic exposes more bullshit: movie 'release windows', long touted by studios as absolutely necessary to keep theaters in business. techdirt.com/article…

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In today's edition of "Never Meet Your Heroes", Jean-Michel Jarre exposes his ignorance of the effect of copyright on culture. Hint: it's not good. techdirt.com/article…

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Canadian lobbyist group News Media Canada wants to follow France and Australia, demanding that Google pay news companies for the privilege of sending traffic to them. This won't end well. techdirt.com/article…

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Australia moves to push Facebook and Google out of the country for daring to send traffic to news sites. techdirt.com/article…

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On the John's Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard, the curve is starting to flatten in some countries: Spain, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Australia, and Czechia. South Korea's graph is flat. Elsewhere, the curve is still headed sharply upward. arcgis.com/apps/opsd…

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Don't get me wrong: the pandemic sucks. And I'm only going out when I have to, and maintaining physical distance from others. But driving and parking... are like a dream from my childhood, when these things were not a daily struggle.

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