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2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readSep 20, 2022

#20yrsago Scientology silences critics at Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20121108101856/http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/c2a9c4952ae57848

#20yrsago New bill will make analog VCRs and TVs illegal in 2006 https://digitalconsumer.org/press-release-2002-09-19.html

#20yrsago Groucho to Warner Bros: Get Bent https://web.archive.org/web/20020604031835/http://www.princeton.edu/~flannery/quotations/casablanca.html

#15yrsago My Guardian column on “the information economy” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/sep/18/informationeconomy

#15yrsago DRM violates Canadian privacy law https://cippic.ca/sites/default/files/CIPPIC_Report_DRM_and_Privacy.pdf

#15yrsago Private doc does “e-visits” by email or webcam https://web.archive.org/web/20070925030643/http://www.jayparkinsonmd.com/

#15yrsago Soviet top-level domain refuses to die https://web.archive.org/web/20070101000000*/http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/09/does-top-level-domain-make-nation.html

#15yrsago London’s panopticon of CCTVs aren’t solving crimes https://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=9728

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Cory Doctorow
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