This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Carnegie-Mellon offers course on DRM https://seclists.org/interesting-people/2002/Aug/65

#15yrsago AllOfMP3 founder not guilty of copyright infringement https://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/biztech/08/15/russia.site.reut/index.html

#15yrsago US schools ask 14-year-olds to declare a major https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/education/16major.html

#10yrsago The Coming Civil War Over General Purpose Computers https://web.archive.org/web/20120820010532/http://fora.tv/2012/07/31/Cory_Doctorow_Coming_War_Against_Your_Computer_Freedom

#5yrsago Fox and other conservative sites hastily scrub posts urging vehicular murder of left-wing protesters https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/15/media/daily-caller-fox-news-video-car-crashing-liberal-protesters/index.html

#5yrsago David Byrne: The secret appeal of technology is that it takes away the need to talk to people https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/08/15/149854/eliminating-the-human/

#5yrsago Uncanny Japan: a podcast highlighting “all that is weird from old Japan” https://uncannyjapan.com/

#1yrago Housing, money laundry, speculation and precarity https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/16/die-miete-ist-zu-hoch/#assets-v-human-rights