This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.

Cory Doctorow

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Tomorrow (September 22), I’ll be livestreaming into the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. On September 27, I’ll be at Chevalier’s Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine.

#20yrsago Electronic voting machines: WE WON! https://web.archive.org/web/20031001223056/https://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/20030926_eff_pr.php

#20yrsago @Stake employee fired after criticizing MSFT: Download the report https://ccianet.org/wp-content/uploads/2003/09/cyberinsecurity the cost of monopoly.pdf

#20yrsago India to ban cover-versions of music https://web.archive.org/web/20031004162539/https://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1235

#15yrsago Walmart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/26/walmart-shutting-down-drm-server-nuking-your-music-collection-only-people-who-pay-for-music-risk-losing-it-to-drm-shenanigans/

#15yrsago Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will put us in a huge, Orwellian database http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7634111.stm

#10yrsago Verizon wants to slow down your favorite websites unless they pay bribes…

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