This day in history

#15yrsago DMCA’s author says the DMCA is a failure, blames record industry https://web.archive.org/web/20070315000000*/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1826/125/

#10yrsago Copyright is alive and well on the Internet https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/23/copyright-regulate-us

#10yrsago Turkish bootleg Star Wars figures of the 1980s http://theswca.com/images-speci/yglesias/uzay.html

#5yrsago Google: Chrome will no longer trust Symantec certificates, 30% of the web will need to switch Certificate Authorities https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/google-takes-symantec-to-the-woodshed-for-mis-issuing-30000-https-certs/

#5yrsago India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research blew so much money on rubbish patents, it’s gone broke https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-compulsive-patent-hoarding-disorder/article62113454.ece

#1yrago Green investing is a fraud https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/24/greenwashing/#bargaining

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 feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. His…