This day in history

2002, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Jack Valenti pushes mandatory DRM for every computer https://www.theregister.com/2002/02/26/mpaas_valenti_pushes_for_copycontrol/

#20yrsago Michael Moore versus Bill O’Reilly https://web.archive.org/web/20020222230203/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,46116,00.html

#10yrsago SKS, world’s largest microfinance service, drives debtors to suicide https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Lender-s-own-probe-links-it-to-suicides-11508346.php

#10yrsago Author discovers that Amazon can reprice his indie Kindle books however they want and cut his royalties, at will http://www.jimchines.com/2012/02/amazon-ebook-price/

#10yrsago Repo Man director urges fans to “pirate a bunch of my stuff right away” https://thequietus.com/articles/08085-repo-man-alex-cox-interview

#5yrsago The CPAC replacement speaker for Milo Yiannopoulos was a notorious Japanese cult-member http://www.mutantfrog.com/2017/02/26/politician-from-japanese-cult-happy-science-at-cpac/

#1yrago Privacy is not property: Interests, not exclusive rights https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/26/meaningful-zombies/#luxury-goods

#1yrago K-Zombies: Zombies conquer Korea https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/26/meaningful-zombies/#oracles