This day in history
2003, 2008, 2013, 2022.
#15yrsago Video explains timeshifting and Canadian copyright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AgnUmB5j6E
#10yrsago Lessig’s Harvard Law lecture: “Aaron’s Law” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HAw1i4gOU4
#10yrsago RIAA you suck at SEO https://www.techdirt.com/2013/02/21/riaa-google-isnt-trying-hard-enough-to-make-piracy-disappear-internet/
#5yrsago Before standing for the Democratic nomination in a NY congressional race, Patrick Ryan was in business spying on union organizers and left-wing activists https://theintercept.com/2018/02/22/patrick-ryan-congress-berico-dataminr/
#5yrsago Judge finds that Disney “misused copyright” when it tried to stop Redbox from renting download codes https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43154671
#5yrsago In 2009 a NJ judge banned hooking up voting machines to the internet, but that’s exactly how ES&S’s “airgapped” machines work https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/02/22/are-voting-machine-modems-truly-divorced-from-the-internet/
#1yrago China hamstrings its Big Tech https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/22/national-champions/#biddable
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power. His latest novel for adults is Attack Surface. His latest short story collection is Radicalized. His latest picture book is Poesy the Monster Slayer. His latest YA novel is Pirate Cinema. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. His forthcoming books include Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering (Tor, 2023); and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias (Tor, 2023).
