This day in history

2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.

#15yrsago MPAA wants the right to commit fraud https://www.wired.com/2006/12/mpaa-kills-anti-pretexting-bill/

#15yrsago MPAA: it’s OK to copy movies if you keep them in a vault https://web.archive.org/web/20061019205940/http://www.slumdance.com/blogs/brian_flemming/archives/001953.html

#15yrsago Edgar Bronfman Jr’s piracy liabilities should wipe him out (but won’t) https://web.archive.org/web/20061205212325/http://blogs.reuters.com/2006/12/01/the-most-dangerous-download-of-all/

#10yrsago Croatian transparency activists publish enormous database of government procurements, pointing the way to detecting corruption and fraud https://web.archive.org/web/20111129234109/http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/croatian-transparency-activist-marko-rakar-making-waves-again

#5yrsago Children synthesize $2 version of Martin Shkreli’s $750 malaria drug https://www.smh.com.au/technology/martin-shkreli-responds-after-sydney-grammar-boys-make-daraprim-20161201-gt1n3q.html

#5yrsago Canada’s music lobby admits WIPO Internet Treaty drafters were “just guessing” https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2016/12/music-canada-reverses-on-years-of-copyright-lobbying-now-says-wipo-internet-treaties-were-wrong-guess/