from the so-it-was dept
5 Years In the past
This week in 2020, the Secret Service joined the listing of regulation enforcement companies utilizing knowledge brokers to dodge warrant necessities for location knowledge, very like the CPB was nonetheless doing through a dealer being investigated by congress, whereas different companies had been throwing tax {dollars} at junk science — however a minimum of the court docket in Massachusetts insisted that cops want warrants to have interaction in long-term video surveillance. Additionally: Lindsey Graham launched a brand new confused assault on Part 230, RFK Jr. filed an insanely silly lawsuit in opposition to Fb, and the Epic/Apple struggle over Fortnite continued.
Ten Years In the past
This week in 2015, Ashley Madison was persevering with to abuse the DMCA following its disastrous knowledge leak, whereas we wrote in regards to the rise of ContentID trolls on YouTube, and Carl Malamud was asking the positioning to institute a 3 strikes coverage for takedown abuse. Twitter provided up a ridiculous excuse for shutting down providers that highlighted deleted tweets from politicians, and we checked out how Google lobbied in opposition to actual internet neutrality in India. We additionally noticed some examples of rightsholders actually hating enjoyable, with the Pokemon Firm shutting down a Pokemon social gathering at PAX, and Common Music taking down a parody of a Nirvana music.
Fifteen Years In the past
This week in 2010, and persevering with on that very same theme, we noticed Warner Bros. getting upset about “Harry Popper” condoms, and LucasFilm (considerably extra understandably) getting upset about an organization known as “Jedi Thoughts”. In a little bit of a reversal, Madonna was sued for promoting garments underneath the identify “Materials Woman” by an organization that had been utilizing that model for over a decade. We shared an insider’s view on how grandstanding attorneys normal had been making life depressing for tech corporations, with the prototypical instance in fact being fixed assaults on Craigslist. Additionally, Techdirt itself obtained one of many extra excessive authorized threats we’ve ever gotten.
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