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TechdirtSep 3, 2026

Sony Tells Courts Any ‘Reasonable Customer’ Knows Digital Purchases Are Actually Licenses

Sony's ability to generate anger lately is pretty impressive. After the company announced that there would be no more physical media versions of games made starting in 2027, to the resounding anger of many people, Sony also demonstrated yet again that it's capable of ripping away the digital "purchases" people had made once its own...

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TechdirtAug 25, 2026

Sony Keeps Getting Punched In The Face Over Going Disc-less In Unrelated Places

If Sony thought that the outrage over its decision to make the next PlayStation entirely disc-less was going to dissipate quickly, it was wrong. There are actually multiple organic campaigns to protest Sony's decision to ditch physical media now. We already talked about the plans for a purchase and usage blackout of all things PlayStation...

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TechdirtAug 15, 2026

Dev Kills Cloud Version Of Game On Switch, Offers Discount To Rebuy It For Switch 2

We've talked a great deal about the Stop Killing Games movement and those discussions have typically traveled along two paths of importance. On the one hand, the movement is very important to those of us that care about the preservation of video games. A huge problem with allowing developers and publishers to simply shutdown backend...

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TechdirtAug 7, 2026

Farmers Are Getting Control Of Their Equipment Back

For years, John Deere had actively made repairing their tractors near-impossible for anyone but itself and the few "authorized" repair shops—regardless of the ability of its customers to actually visit such shops. Now, in a major win for farmers and right to repair advocates, John Deere must soon provide farmers with not just the tools...

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Patrick SingletaryAug 7, 2026

Alas, I will not be playing GTA6

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TechdirtAug 4, 2026

Sony Gives Its Disc-Loving Customers A Giant Middle Finger

Just a few weeks ago, Sony announced that it would stop producing games on physical media starting in 2028 and a very loud portion of Sony's customers lost their freaking minds. And, in this writer's opinion, for very good reason. Having no physical media option for your games is going to make game preservation efforts...

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Lore BlogJul 30, 2026

The Agentic Memory Trap

Lore is a vendor-neutral proxy that runs on your machine. Plain Markdown and an open SQLite database, run by a fair-source engine.

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TechdirtJul 29, 2026

A Blackout Protest Over Sony Ditching Disks Is Brewing

Sony's decision to stop producing PlayStation discs starting in 2028 was met with a ton of initial backlash, especially in the wake of Sony reminding its customers yet again that a digital purchase of content isn't actually a purchase of content at all and what you've bought can be ripped away from you with the...

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Mihai's Social CommentaryJul 24, 2026

On Digital Sovereignty of the Individual

Part 2 in the series on reclaiming Digital Sovereignty

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xptracker blogFeb 25, 2026

A Vision for Portable Career Data

We're bringing portable career data to the AT Protocol. Here's our vision for open resume standards, career feeds, and professional verification on Bluesky — and why your professional history should belong to you.

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Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 4, 2024

Taking A Mile

The risk of the open internet is that someone will exploit your well-intentioned openness thoughtlessly. That’s how the internet slowly stops being open.

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Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetFeb 23, 2024

Create For Yourself

With disruption hitting the media industry acutely in 2024, now is the time to lean into owning your creative work. Have a say in your creative destiny.

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Ben WerdmullerAug 19, 2012

You can't empower users by targeting ads

Scott Hanselman has a great take on platforms and ownership on the web: * Why doesn't someone make a free or cheap social network for the people? * Why can't I control my content? * Why can't I export everything I've written? [...] You want control? Buy a domain and blog there. His whole post is worth a read. But I think this goes far beyond blogging. The "cloud", at least as it's popularly thought of, is really just a user-friendly, web-based take on mainframe computing, which was super

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Ben WerdmullerJul 1, 2009

Building the user-centered web

The following post contains my notes for a talk I gave at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University on June 25, 2009. What is a social network? I would like to reclaim some language: Social is an adjective that means relating to human society and its members. A network is an interconnected system of things or people. Therefore, I’d suggest that we can define a social network as just being an interconnected system of people. The audience of this talk is a social ne

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