Techdirt founder Mike Masnick has followed the twists and turns of the digital music debate for more than a decade, offering some of the most prescient and lucid information and arguments on the topic ...

Mike Masnick on why tech journalism has a huge part to play in decoding current events right now: "We’ve spent decades documenting how technology and entrepreneurship can either strengthen or ...

Michael Masnick, founder of the Techdirt blog, has been offering prescriptions for the music industry for years, and now he's taking a taste of its own medicine with a freemium-style formula modeled ...

Shiva Ayyadurai, the tech entrepreneur and now candidate for U.S. Senate, faced a legal setback this week after a judge threw out a libel lawsuit he filed against the website TechDirt over his claims ...

Michael Masnick, who founded the popular Techdirt blog, filed a motion (PDF) today asking for a defamation lawsuit against him to be thrown out. Masnick was sued last month by Shiva Ayyadurai, a ...

A Massachusetts judge has sided with Techdirt, dismissing Shiva Ayyadurai’s $15 million lawsuit against the media company, its founder Mike Masnick and writer Leigh Beadon. The suit centered on ...

TechDirt has prevailed in its First Amendment defense against Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email. Before getting into the detail, it's worth pausing to both thank and congratulate ...

Techdirt founder Mike Masnick often takes no prisoners when it comes to his writings about intellectual property, net neutrality, the law, and everything in between. But now Masnick finds himself the ...

Techdirt, a blog about the intersections of law, media and technology, is fighting a defamation suit brought by Shiva Ayyadurai, a man who claims to have invented email. The site posted on the claim ...

"[T]he question of who invented e-mail is not subject to one, and only one, 'true' answer," a federal judge writes. By Ashley Cullins In a win for tech writers who scrutinize the history of email, a ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The publisher of the website TechDirt broke his silence on Wednesday ...

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel won’t say if he is funding the latest $15 million lawsuit brought by Shiva Ayyadurai, in which he claims to have “invented email: the electronic mail system as ...