This Week In Techdirt History: April 14th – 20th
from the do-you-recall dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, Starz was going after tweets about a TorrentFreak article, then issuing a laughably unbelievable excuse and apology. The EU nations, as expected, rubber stamped the copyright directive, while the Parliament moved on to the terrorist content regulations and quickly pushed those through too. We learned some more about ICE’s fake university sting operation, while Motel 6 was set to pay out another $12 million for handing guest info to ICE. And Facebook and a very, very bad week on the privacy front, while the Sixth Circuit dumped a lawsuit attempting to hold Twitter responsible for the Pulse nightclub shooting.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2014, we looked at the lessons from the suspicion and denial around the NSA and the Heartbleed vulnerability, and how the agency could certainly still be using it. The Guardian and the Washington Post won Pulitzers for their Snowden coverage, leading to some backlash that got pretty bizarre. Hollywood was pressuring Australia to make ISPs act as copyright cops, Eli Lilley was pressuring Canada to approve a patent on a useless drug, and General Mills was trying out quite a legal theory about what you can agree to by “Liking” a page on Facebook.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2009, Google turned off uploads in Korea rather than abide by a requirement to identify and disclose users, some new research was being misrepresented to claim that “Twitter makes you immoral”, and there was one of many examples of Amazon’s DRM turning a Kindle into a paperweight. An activist group was using bogus DMCA claims to take down videos exposing its use of fake “concerned citizens”, while a news station was doing the same to hide the fact that it fell for an April Fool’s prank. And the Coldplay/Satriani copyright fight continued, with Coldplay’s filing that denied any copying.
Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: April 14th – 20th”
It’s time for my random, “Thanks, Leigh, for posting these on Saturday.” i do appreciate the lookback posts.
The one thing I’m struck by (and have been for many weeks) in reading these TD flashbacks is how evil Republicans are, and yet how often Democrats seem to go along with them.
Very disillusioning.
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Hear, hear! They are all to blame. There can be no other alternative besides BLM protests. Anyone who disagrees deserves a big black cock shoved in their mouth.
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See, this here is a right wing troll. The only thing this “person” can think of when confronted with this nation’s social, economic, and political history is this.
“BLM” at this point just means “uppity blacks.”
I’m not going to look at your shame at your porn preferences. Something tells me you’d enjoy the humiliation.
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Yes, blame the right wing trolls. I’ll be honest, looking at rich straight white people kiss grosses me the fuck out. Thank FSM that Sweet Baby Inc is here to finally restore balance in the universe.
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That’s nice Herman. But the place for your fantasies is in the super creepy emails your write to your only fans subs.
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That’s nice Herman. But the place for your fantasies is in the super creepy emails your write to your only fans subs.
Re: Politicians across the world
Politicians of all parties are more concerned with keeping their job than doing it.
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And beware politicians who do their jobs too.
They tend to be more vicious.