This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.

#20yrsago Harpercollins closes to unsolicited manuscripts, citing anthrax risk https://memex.craphound.com/2001/10/29/some-publishers-have-instituted-new/

#15yrsago No blogging allowed at “consumer generated media” conference https://gregverdino.typepad.com/greg_verdinos_blog/2006/10/social_media_fi.html

#10yrsago Microsoft buys Skype, attacks reverse engineer with bogus takedown notices and florid language https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwNzI

#10yrsago SOPA in depth: the worst-ever copyright proposal in US legislative history? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/sopa-hollywood-finally-gets-chance-break-internet

#10yrsago Justin Bieber: senator who sponsored anti-streaming bill should be “locked up — put away in cuffs” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/justin-bieber-streaming-bill-author-should-be-locked-up/

#5yrsago After North Carolina Republicans banned cities selling internet, a town decided to give it away instead https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/city-isp-makes-broadband-free-because-state-law-prohibits-selling-access/

#1yrago RIAA’s war on youtube-dl https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/28/trumpcicles/#yt-dl