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This day in history

2002, 2012, 2017.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJul 25, 2022

#20yrsago Sony Spyware license-agreement performed by a women’s choir https://www.wired.com/2007/07/mp3-womens-chor/

#10yrsago Unfuck Your Habitat: tidy advice for messy people https://web.archive.org/web/20120731042320/https://unfuckyourhabitat.tumblr.com/

#10yrsago Obama administration plays politics with treaty on copyright exceptions for disabled people https://web.archive.org/web/20120730224414/https://www.keionline.org/node/1494

#10yrsago IFPI’s anti-piracy strategy leaks https://torrentfreak.com/leaked-report-reveals-music-industrys-global-anti-piracy-strategy-120725/

#5yrsago The German auto industry started conspiring on diesel emissions in the 1990s https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/24/16021292/german-car-companies-cartel-diesel-emissions-90s

#5yrsago Defcon’s hotel business-center won’t print from links or USBs https://www.csoonline.com/article/3210868/las-vegas-ups-store-makes-risk-adjustments-due-to-def-con.html

#5yrsago The Democrats’ tax-credits for job training idea has been discredited for decades https://coreyrobin.com/2017/07/24/the-democrats-a-party-that-wants-to-die-but-cant-pull-the-plug/

#5yrsago 70 top-paid US health industry CEOs raked in $9.8B since Obamacare passed…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

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