This Week In Techdirt History: May 19th – 25th
from the that-was-that dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, people were jumping on the bandwagon of fearmongering about Huawei, while we pointed out that the real security threat is the internet of things. Another federal magistrate said that compelled production of passwords and biometrics violates the Fifth Amendment, ICE spent another $820,000 on cellphone cracking tools, and we filed a FOIA lawsuit against ICE. A new indictment of Julian Assange made unprecedented use of the Espionage Act over things journalists do all the time, using theories that probably meant Donald Trump violated the act too. And we followed up on the conclusion of our legal fight with Shiva Ayyadurai.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2014, the USA Freedom Act got watered down even more and then sent in its broken form to the Senate, while Dianne Feinstein was again denying that metadata collection counts as surveillance, Keith Alexander was arguing that they need to do even more spying in the future, and James Comey was continuing the FBI tradition of making up pretend threats. The DOJ filed some very ironic criminal charges over Chinese cyberspying, which could open up US officials to similar charges. And we learned that porn copyright troll Malibu Media was responsible for nearly 40% of all copyright lawsuits so far that year.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2009, we asked why Attorneys General were targeting Craigslist but not newspapers or other websites, while an odd Wall Street Journal article suggested the site’s removal of its adult services section was a problem of self-policing rather than external pressure, and Craigslist went on the offensive by suing the AG in South Carolina. A judge tossed out a frivolous copyright lawsuit over tie-dye shirts, YouTube was ordered to pay $1.6 million to ASCAP, and the Coldplay/Satriani copyright battle continued heating up. Meanwhile, the lawyer in the Tenenbaum case was getting ready to try a challenging argument that downloading is fair use.
Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: May 19th – 25th”
How’s that FOIA lawsuit going against ICE? Ever get anything useful out of them?
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https://www.techdirt.com/2019/10/30/our-foia-lawsuit-gets-results-ice-admits-it-didnt-really-seize-million-copyright-infringing-domains/
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Man, that was another blast from the past.
The fact that law enforcement has to constantly, consistently exaggerate the stats involved in anything that tangentially mentions IP, is something they inherited – heck, were probably instructed by the copyright interests. Muddling of trademarks and copyright. Lumping together knockoff luxury bags from China with websites providing YouTube ripping software. Making intellectual property law as the only thing keeping us afloat as a functioning society, when the reality is that nobody genuinely gives a single solitary fuck. (Just look up all the times the RIAA, collection societies, governments and militaries decided not to pay for a photograph used as a website backdrop, or cheaped out on paying for a full corporate suite of necessary software on their computer systems.)
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They been doing it with the drug war. Terrorism. Communism before that.
The business plot redux has essentially been slow-rolled since the first one failed.
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All communists should be liquidated as punishment for their ideological forebears’ actions during the Spanish Civil War.
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Yeah yeah yeah. i realize that communists have been the major problem with everything since the pre-pottery neolithic, but man, it gets old.
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Karl Marx is surprised that communism was a thing in the Neolithic.
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Bruh they put a man in space.
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Sure, buddy. It’s all the communists’ fault that the fascists decided to overthrow a democracy and start a war.
And now Strike 3 Holdings is the new largest filer of copyright troll litigation
With another 10,000 to 13,000 victims so far!
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Sorry, communist. The only victims are the content-creators and their allies whose IP is being stolen by scummy torrent-freaks!
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The Red Scare is over, nimrod. You can stop with the excessive nationalism.
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Well, that’s not news at this point. Following the fall of Prenda and Malibu Media, that left Strike 3.
Though I doubt OP is the actual Leonard French. Absolutely not the same style of speech, and the real Leonard hasn’t reported on Strike 3 in half a year. To whit, the same site linked in OP’s name goes back to October 2023 for a mention of Strike 3, at best, and Leonard’s YouTube channel hasn’t mentioned Strike 3 in a long time.
If I had to take a guess, he might still be fighting off Richard Liebowitz’s frivolous lawsuit. All the best to Leonard, I’d say, for his role in comprehensively dismantling one of the country’s most notorious copyright trolls.
So what? Commun!sts also killed many tens of millions of people.
And unrelatedly, in urban India, 13 percent of the population open-defec@te, and in rural areas 73 percent sh!t wherever it’s convenient! Sub-hum@n f!lth!
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And then there are people like you.
Shut-up, Jap-lover! Truman should’ve nuked the Chiyoda district–or at least ordered MacArthur to run Hirohito through with a sword!!
Anyone who uses beryllium copper (re)bar sourced from Iran should be prosecuted for trading with the Enemy, regardless of their nationality or place of business.
You shut up first.
Talk about wanting to make US business go bankrupt.