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This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readApr 2, 2023

#15yrsago Difference between feeling secure and being secure https://www.wired.com/2008/04/securitymatters-0403/

#15yrsago Microsoft busted by Indian government for avoiding royalty tax by saying that it sells — not licenses — its software https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/microsoft-told-to-pay-tax-on-licence-fee-for-software/articleshow/2921289.cms

#15yrsago How an ISP music-license should work https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/03/monetizing-file-sharing-collective-licensing-good-isp-tax-bad

#15yrsago Fuji makes you sign bizarre EULA to buy a camera https://memex.craphound.com/2008/04/02/fuji-makes-you-sign-bizarre-eula-to-buy-a-camera/

#15yrsago Bush administration: Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to domestic military operations https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/administration-asserts-no-fourth-amendment-domestic-military-operations

#15yrsago Short story reads like the first page of Snow Crash, recombined and awesome — Leonard Richardson’s “Mallory” https://futurismic.com/2008/04/01/mallory-by-leonard-richardson/

#10yrsago Notorious porno copyright trolls Prenda Law have a very bad day in court…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

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