2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. — #15yrsago Science Fiction Writers of America reinstates E-Piracy Committee — new name, same chairman https://memex.craphound.com/2007/11/29/science-fiction-writers-of-america-reinstates-e-piracy-committee-new-name-same-chairman/ #15yrsago Universal Music CEO’s fears illustrated in funny webcomic https://web.archive.org/web/20071130023109/http://hijinksensue.com/2007/11/29/robots-are-everywhere-and-they-eat-old-peoples-medicine-for-fuel/

Chokepoint Capitalism ruins everything. — In Bezos’s original plan, the company called “Amazon” was called “Relentless,” due to its ambition to be “Earth’s most customer-centric company.” Today, Amazon is an enshittified endless scroll of paid results, where winning depends on ad budgets, not quality. Writing in Jeff Bezos’s newspaper The Washington Post, veteran tech reporter…

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. — #15yrsago Google says spammers are giving up https://www.wired.com/2007/11/spammers-giving-up-google-thinks-so/ #15yrsago BBC’s iPlayer sold us out — and then failed https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/nov/27/bbc.digitalvideo #10yrsago In Finland, piracy fines are orders of magnitude higher than fines for rape, torture and murder https://web.archive.org/web/20120801000000*/http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2012112716377136_uu.shtml

A detective story of shifting rationalizations. — In 1841, Graham’s Magazine published Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and, in so doing, created the modern detective story genre. The story was published at a pivotal moment for copyright: only a decade earlier, Congress passed the Copyright Act of 1831, extending US copyright…

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. — #20yrsago Dan Gillmor: The dotcom bubble was a Big Con https://web.archive.org/web/20021215154034/https://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/4621259.htm #20yrsago GW Bush parodies can’t air on UK TV without his permission https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/world/a-bush-parody-is-banned-in-britain.html #15yrsago Time’s Joe Klein shoves his foot in his gob on NSA wiretapping https://www.wired.com/2007/11/time-columnist/

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. — #20yrsago Ed Felten’s radical technology agenda https://web.archive.org/web/20021127140640/https://www.chronicle.com/free/v49/i14/14a02701.htm #20yrsago Harry Potter/Luke Skywalker/Frodo Baggins https://craphound.com/images/frodoharryskywalker_furymix.jpg #15yrsago How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook https://web.archive.org/web/20071128035044/http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021. — #20yrsago Imagineeringland: the busiest place on Earth https://www.wired.com/2002/12/rebuilding/ #20yrsago Me (13) with Charles De Lint, 1984 https://craphound.com/images/de_Lint_with_customers.jpg #15yrsago French law proposal will force ISPs to spy on users and terminate downloaders without trial https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/11/the-insanity-and-genius-of-frances-anti-file-sharing-plan/

The Keating Five were amateurs. — The collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and its affiliated businesses has left a million creditors holding the bag for a chaotically managed, corrupt enterprise that created vast personal fortunes for the conspirators who ran it, even as it stole the life’s savings of retail investors who bought into its…

#10yrsago Hacker’s ad for a Yahoo email-stealing exploit, up for sale at $700 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/yahoo-email-stealing-exploit-fetches-700/ #10yrsago Saudi Arabian women tracked at the border with system that SMSes their husbands when they leave the country https://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012%2F11%2F22%2F251255 #10yrsago Staffers for millionaire/wrestling magnate/failed GOP Senate candidate say they were stiffed, got bad checks and…