This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.

#20yrsago DRM is philosophically broken, too https://www.wired.com/2003/06/copy-protection-is-a-crime/

#20yrsago New PageRank optimization may pave way for idiosyncratic Google https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/704975

#15yrsago Security guards threaten NPR photogs with arrest for shooting panorama of DC’s Union Station https://web.archive.org/web/20080517104116/http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2008/05/almost_arrested_for_taking_photos_at_uni.html

#15yrsago Warner/DC comics shuts down children’s cancer charity auction over trademark https://web.archive.org/web/20080517045311/https://sayitbackwards.blogspot.com/2008/05/important-charity-auction-update.html

#15yrsago Grateful Dead shake down NPR over including a song in an online mix https://www.npr.org/sections/monitormix/2008/05/days_be_more_than_all_we_have_2.html/

#15yrsago Analog switchoff == DRM screwjob https://tidbits.com/2008/05/12/digital-rights-misery-when-technology-is-designed-to-fail/

#15yrsago US and EU commissioner trying (again!) to sneak software patents into Europe https://web.archive.org/web/20080514074905/http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/McCreevy_wants_to_legalise_Software_Patents_via_a_US-EU_patent_treaty