This day in history

2004, 2009, 2023.

#20yrsago Court trashes fair use https://web.archive.org/web/20041009211351/https://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_09.php#001962

#20yrsago EFF kicks Diebold’s ass https://web.archive.org/web/20041009211351/https://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_09.php#001961

#20yrsago MSFT’s FAT shakedown suspended by Patent Office https://web.archive.org/web/20041009202717/http://www.pubpat.org/Microsoft_517_Rejected.htm

#20yrsago Sony ditches DRM CDs https://web.archive.org/web/20041010063144/http://www.engadget.com/entry/3586262161659249/

#20yrsago Canadian Creative Commons licenses launched https://web.archive.org/web/20041011105249/http://www.cippic.ca/en/projects-cases/icommons-canada/

#15yrsago Bank of America demands thumbprint from man with no arms https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE58247Y20090903/

#15yrsago Britain seeks ban on glass pint-glasses to prevent bar-brawl injuries https://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/09/british-government-considers-mandating-plastic-pints.html

#15yrsago Trotsky: the graphic biography https://memex.craphound.com/2009/09/30/trotsky-the-graphic-biography/

#1yrago The internet is not a (link)dump truck https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/30/mesclada/#melange

Tor Books just published two new, free “Little Brother” stories: “Vigilant,” a about creepy surveillance in distance education; and “Spill,” about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.