Cable Companies, Automakers Try to Derail FTC, FCC Quest to Kill Misleading Fees(techdirt.com)

155 points by rntn 2 years ago | 93 comments

FTC warns pharma companies about sham patent listings designed to delay generics(techdirt.com)

266 points by rntn 3 years ago | 74 comments

Apple-OpenAI Relationship Frays, Setting Up Possible Legal Fight(bloomberg.com)

49 points by helsinkiandrew 5 months ago | 23 comments

Canadian Government Buries "Lawful Access" Provisions in New Border Bill(michaelgeist.ca)

37 points by tunapizza 1 year ago | 1 comments

Standoff over 95-year-old judge shows downside of lifetime jobs(news.bloomberglaw.com)

44 points by hhs 3 years ago | 38 comments

US Patent Office proposes rule to make it much harder to kill bad patents(techdirt.com)

487 points by berkeleyjunk 3 years ago | 68 comments

Techdirt article by Mike Masnick criticizing a USPTO proposed rule that would make it harder to challenge bad patents through inter partes review.

Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

727 points by Brajeshwar 1 month ago | 436 comments

A blog post by Jim Nielsen reacting to a Tyler Gaw Bluesky post about finally using old cables from his big box of cables, and deciding to act on it.

Telecom Industry Is Mad Because the FCC Might Examine High Broadband Prices(techdirt.com)

432 points by rntn 2 years ago | 249 comments

Techdirt article by Karl Bode on telecom industry opposition to an FCC Notice of Inquiry considering broadband prices in its deployment assessments.

ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule(arstechnica.com)

422 points by LinuxBender 3 years ago | 314 comments

Ars Technica article on broadband ISPs urging the FCC to scrap a new rule requiring them to list all recurring monthly fees on broadband labels.

I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music(coryd.dev)

463 points by cdme 3 years ago | 353 comments

Blog post by Cory Dransfeldt arguing he wants to stream his own collected music library rather than use catalogue-based streaming services.

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now(stephendiehl.com)

347 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 228 comments

Stephen Diehl blog essay arguing the modern internet has become predatory compared with the amateur, non-commercial web of the 1990s.

FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers(fcc.gov)

455 points by moonka 7 months ago | 388 comments

FCC news release announcing that foreign-made consumer routers are added to the Covered List, prohibiting approval of new models.