This day in history

2012, 2017, 2021.

#10yrsago RIAA prez twirls mustache in anticipation of taking on his role of Internet Witchfinder General https://www.cnet.com/culture/riaa-chief-isps-to-start-policing-copyright-by-july-1/

#10yrsago Canadian cops want to add a spying tax to phone bills to pay for warrantless wiretapping https://web.archive.org/web/20121101000000*/https://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6379/125/

#5yrsago How Kenyan spies and cops use electronic surveillance for illegal murder and torture squads https://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/track_capture_final.pdf

#5yrsago Fair trade ebooks: how authors could double their royalties without costing their publishers a cent https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/73044-london-book-fair-2017-cory-doctorow-unveils-his-latest-publishing-experiment-fair-trade-e-books.html

#1yrago Meet the new music boss, same as the old music boss: Monopsony begets monoposony https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/16/wage-theft/#excessive-buyer-power

#1yrago SMS security is flaming garbage https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/16/wage-theft/#override-service-registry

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