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This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMay 25, 2022

#15yrsago Map of a notional LA subway based on the London Tube https://web.archive.org/web/20070528045805/https://thetransitcoalition.us/ConNP01.htm

#15yrsago Breaking DVD DRM is legal in Finland https://web.archive.org/web/20070528062421/http://www.turre.com/blog/?p=102

#10yrsago Fox sues Dish over commercial skipping, claims copyright infringement https://web.archive.org/web/20120527004526/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-fox-sues-dish-network-over-adblocking-feature-20120524,0,3654685.story

#10yrsago Google publishing data on all copyright takedowns it receives https://www.techdirt.com/2012/05/25/odd-that-microsoft-demands-google-take-down-links-that-remain-bing/

#10yrsago NYC lawyer loses $100K suit over healthclub that stopped supplying yogurt and cereal http://www.loweringthebar.net/2012/05/lawyers-defective-breakfast-suit-is-dismissed.html

#5yrsago Colombian biologist won’t go to jail for 8 years for sharing a scientific paper (probably) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/diego

#5yrsago 90,000 young Britons register to vote in one dayhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/22/boost-jeremy-corbyn-90000-young-people-register-vote-just-one/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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