This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.

On September 22, I’ll be livestreaming into the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. On September 27, I’ll be at Chevalier’s Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine.

#20yrsago Fashion is a commons: copying is the sincerest form of flattery https://www.npr.org/2003/09/18/1434815/fashion-industry-copes-with-designer-knockoffs

#20yrsago We all pay Hollywood’s price for DVD https://memex.craphound.com/2003/09/18/we-all-pay-hollywoods-price-for-dvd/

#15yrsago California’s Prop 8 would end same-sex marriage https://www.youtube.com/user/NoOnProp8dotcom

#15yrsago EFF sues Cheney, Bush, and the NSA to stop illegal wiretapping https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/09/17-0

#15yrsago Copyright’s Paradox: brilliantly argued scholarly book tackles free speech vs. copyright https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/18/copyrights-paradox-brilliantly-argued-scholarly-book-tackles-free-speech-vs-copyright/

#10yrsago Scientists march across Canada, fighting the Tory war on facts https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/scientists-aim-to-put-state-of-canadian-research-in-the-public-spotlight-with-demonstrations/article14332546/

#10yrsago Patent trolls Lumen View: “Calling us patent trolls is a hate crime, now you owe us even more money” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/angry-entrepreneur-replies-to-patent-troll-with-racketeering-lawsuit/

#10yrsago Tim O’Reilly explains the mistakes he made and the lessons he learned radar.oreilly.com/2013/09/how-i-failed.html

#10yrsago Diesel Sweeties music humor book: I’m a Rocker, I Rock Out. https://memex.craphound.com/2013/09/18/diesel-sweeties-music-humor-book-im-a-rocker-i-rock-out/

#5yrsago Security researchers can access and modify security footage from Nuuo surveillance systems https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-can-tamper-with-surveillance-camera-footage-due-to-new-zero-day-vulnerability/

#5yrsago Happy Day Against DRM! How We’ll Hill-Climb Our Way to Glory! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/defeating-drm-hill-climbing-our-way-glory