This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018, 2021.

#20yrsago etoy vs. eToys: anarcho-Dadaist clash of the titans https://www.liketv.com/leaving/

#10yrsago PACER capers: the sordid story of America’s for-pay lawbooks https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/the-inside-story-of-aaron-swartzs-campaign-to-liberate-court-filings/

#10yrsago Beige politics: unbeatable bland politicos advocating “beige policies that nobody wants” https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/02/political-failure-modes-and-th.html

#10yrsago Publisher launches $3,000,000 suit against academic librarian who criticized its books https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2013/02/shocking-attack-on-academic-freedom-at-mcmaster-by-edwin-mellen-press.html

#10yrsago Hobbit producers to New Zealand: if you tell people how we got our sweet tax/labor deal, no one will want to make movies in your country https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/threats-fly-over-hobbit-document-release/NIBDE5KIIWFJ5GAJ62YJBZD574/?c_id=1&objectid=10864146

#5yrsago EFF tells the Copyright Office: we don’t know how to make voice assistants better, but here’s how not to make them worse https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/eff-vs-iot-drm-omg

#5yrsago Cable operator Fidelity Communications admits it that secretly created the…