This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMar 22, 2023

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#20yrsago How Slashdot girds its servers https://slashdot.org/~CmdrTaco/journal/27736

#15yrsago In the age of ebooks, you don’t own your library https://gizmodo.com/amazon-kindle-and-sony-reader-locked-up-why-your-books-369235

#10yrsago NY judge says running a search engine for news is a copyright violation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/ap-v-meltwater-disappointing-ruling-news-search

#10yrsago Brazil’s music collecting societies convicted of forming an illegal cartel https://web.archive.org/web/20130321082647/http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/ecad-condenado-por-formacao-de-cartel-por-orgao-de-defesa-da-concorrencia-7897081

#10yrsago How to fix the worst law in technology https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/fixing-the-worst-law-in-technology

#10yrsago GoPro sends fraudulent DMCA notice to site that ran a negative review of its products https://petapixel.com/2013/03/20/gopro-uses-dmca-to-take-down-article-comparing-its-camera-with-rival/

#5yrsago Data shows young people are free speech advocates, but mainstream support for censoring “anti-American” speech is rising https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/12/17100496/political-correctness-data

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