This day in history

2013, 2018.

Next weekend (October 7–8), I’m in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest.

#10yrsago DRM standards, the harmonica version https://fleasnobbery.blogspot.com/2013/10/harmonica.html

#10yrsago Firefox bug: “Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM” https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923590

#10yrsago London School of Economics: piracy isn’t killing big content; government needs to be skeptical of entertainment industry claims https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-isnt-hurting-the-entertainment-industry-121003/

#5yrsago New Macbooks and Imacs will brick themselves if they think they’re being repaired by an independent technician https://www.vice.com/en/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair

#5yrsago Advisor quits Google Toronto’s “smart city” project over privacy concerns https://www.vice.com/en/article/3km74w/google-smart-city-in-toronto-advisor-resigns-data-privacy

#5yrsago Tomorrow: come to our University of Chicago seminar on Renaissance censorship and internet censorship https://voices.uchicago.edu/censorship/dialogueseries/

#5yrsago America’s cities sue FCC for handing billions in municipal subsidy to wireless carriers…