2002, 2007, 2012, 2017. — #20yrsago Taking pictures of hotels is terrorism https://web.archive.org/web/20030501000000*/https://www.2600.com/news/view/article/1441 #15yrsago Canada’s DMCA won’t get any consumer rights added to it for a decade https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2007/12/prentice-delay-on-consumer-issues/ #10yrsago Leaked: ITU’s secret Internet surveillance standard discussion draft https://craphound.com/T09-WTSA.12-C-0030MSW-E2.docx.zip

The true capitalist singularity. — When a superdense, concentrated mass forms a black hole, the laws of physics around it change, giving rise to an eldritch zone where the normal rules don’t apply. When corporations form a concentrated industry, the laws of economics likewise change. Take copyright: when I was a baby writer, there were…

2002, 2007, 2012, 2021. — #20yrsago Stupid copyright claims? Just ask https://web.archive.org/web/20030223095927/http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000216.html #20yrsago 20k-50k WiFi hotspots coming https://web.archive.org/web/20021206024302/http://www.cometanetworks.com/ #20yrsago Karl Auerbach on ICANN’s corruption https://web.archive.org/web/20021219183033/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/12/05/karl.html

Stop picking that nit, it’ll never heal. American political discourse is sticky. It gets all over the place and it’s damned hard to dislodge. People in handcuffs all over the world demand their Miranda rights, and people arguing about social media all over the world are prone to saying “it’s…

2012. — #10yrsago Major studios send legal threats to Google demanding removal of links to their own Facebook pages and more https://torrentfreak.com/movie-studios-ask-google-to-censor-their-own-films-facebook-and-wikipedia-121203/ #10yrsago Computer classes should teach regular expressions to kids https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/dec/04/ict-teach-kids-regular-expressions Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed…

Welcome to the self-destructing space-ship future. — There were two competing visions at the dawn of the modern digital era: in one camp, you had people who saw computers as a way to empower people to push back against corporate and state control; in the other camp, there were the people who wanted to use computers to…

2007. — #15yrsago Holy crap, I love the cover of my next book! https://memex.craphound.com/2007/12/03/holy-crap-i-love-the-cover-of-my-next-book/ #15yrsago Canadian Industry Minister refuses to defend Canadian DMCA in public https://web.archive.org/web/20071205061815/https://www.cbc.ca/searchengine/blog/2007/12/jim_prentice_says_no.html Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr…

Seize the means of computation! — The original sin of both tech boosterism and tech criticism is to focus unduly on what a given technology does, without regard to who it does it to and who it does it for. When it comes to technology’s effect on our daily lives, the social arrangements matter much more…

2007, 2017, 2021. — #15yrsago Britain’s Data Chernobyl: more lost CDs full of thousands of personal records https://web.archive.org/web/20080207210610/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=NR12Q0CT3XVTLQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/12/02/nbenefit102.xml #5yrsago Tim O’Reilly’s WTF? …