This Week In Techdirt History: May 21st – 27th
from the and-then-and-then-and-then dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2018, a report confirmed the deep flaws of automated facial recognition software in the UK while its use was spreading in the US, not least because (as the ACLU found out via documents it obtained) Amazon was handing out cheap tech to law enforcement. We looked at how the recording industry hid its latest attempt to expand copyright, while copyright was being used to prevent an actress from showing her own demo reel, HBO successfully fended off a stupid copyright and trademark lawsuit brought by a graffiti artist, and the EU was gearing up to break the internet with copyright. We also wrote in detail about how you shouldn’t put your hopes in the FTC to police net neutrality.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2013, the major Hollywood studios all sent bogus DMCA takedowns about the Pirate Bay documentary, garnering a response from the filmmaker in the form of a video open letter, while Swedish prosecutors were trying to say that the Pirate Bay’s domain registrar is an “accomplice” in infringement. This was also the week of a notable shift in the online economy for small creators: the launch of Patreon.
Meanwhile, Prenda was having a bad week. A very, very, very, very bad week (with one teeny, tiny bit of good news).
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2008, ABC was still excited about the idea of DVRs that don’t let people fast forward, while we noted how far behind mainstream media was on the subjects of DRM and the DMCA, especially while music DRM was collapsing. We saw an important court ruling on the right to resell software, the MPAA got two more sites to settle for merely linking to infringing content, Japan successfully misused copyright law to convict a virus author, and we wrote about how copyright battles are about controlling new technologies.
Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: May 21st – 27th”
The format of these “This week in Techdirt history” articles is outdated now.
You can put in “Twenty years ago blocks now 😉
Funny how while John Smith was gloating that a Pirate Bay documentary had been shut down at the behest of movie studios… his heroes in Prenda Law was having the worst week of their lives.
Copyright law best and brightest.
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I hate you so, so much Leigh. Please die.
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You keep dreaming, broski. Maybe one of these days they’ll let Paul Hansmeier have an appeal, SOPA will get approved, and Elon Musk will let you have a pony in the shape of his prosthetic dick.
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You first.
I FUCKING INSIST.
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Hey John.
Google’s not liable for ISIS. The decision was unanimous.
Your Section 230 gambit failed, again.
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There once was a horse with no name
Who said John Steele was not to blame
When he was asked why
He gave out a cry,
“John wiped off my face when he came!”
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I’m not sure what’s funnier – the fact that your only response is to wish death on people who state the truth, even though from context it’s likely the person your responded to is not Leigh, or that your pathetic ass still comes to visit the site you hate so much every day.
But, please, continue to present this as the best your side has to offer, it gives the rest of us hope for sanity.
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He did the same after promising to leave the site when he still logged into his MyNameHere account, back in 2018.
Copyright-types truly are some of the most fucked up dregs of humanity.
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Hey Jhon,
I had sex with Katie too, man.
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Rose McGowan still ain’t gonna fuck you, buddy. In fact I’d go so far as to say that it’s cunts like you who make claims like “women sleep their way into power” that cause more of them to identify as non-binary, because that’s the only way they’ll be able to protect themselves from grabby pervs like you.
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Also, that a decade on the main issue is how the same studios desperately followed Netflix, which at its prime was the major reason people didn’t pirate movies as much as they used to.
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