This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#15yrsago Why knockoffs are good for fashion https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/24/the-piracy-paradox

#15yrsago Harvard Coop calls cops on students who wrote down textbook ISBNs https://web.archive.org/web/20071105192901/https://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=519615

#15yrsago Pirate Bay suing major media companies for sabotage, based on MediaDefender leak https://tech.slashdot.org/story/07/09/22/1029248/the-pirate-bay-files-suit-against-big-media

#10yrsago The Kairos Mechanism: a half-sequel to The Bone Shaker https://memex.craphound.com/2012/09/22/the-kairos-mechanism-a-half-sequel-to-the-bone-shaker/

#5yrsago On the road with America’s post-homed nomads https://lithub.com/life-on-the-road-and-in-a-walmart-parking-lot/

#5yrsago European Commission spent 360,000€ on a piracy study, then buried it because they didn’t like what it said https://felixreda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-study/

#5yrsago William Gibson interviewed: Archangel, the Jackpot, and the instantly commodifiable dreamtime of industrial societies https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/22/william-gibson-interviewed-archangel-the-jackpot-and-the-instantly-commodifiable-dreamtime-of-industrial-societies/