This Week In Techdirt History: June 27th – July 3rd
from the that's-how-it-went dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2016, the Copyright Office was pushing a dangerous plan to strip websites of DMCA harbors, Google and Facebook were using copyright tools to take down extremist content, and lawmakers in Europe were floating the dumb idea of letting robots and computers have copyrights. Malibu Media was getting called out by a judge while also launching a lawsuit against its former lawyer, while two other important rulings in copyright cases stated that an IP address is not a person. We also took a closer look at Hillary Clinton’s problematic tech platform and vague and confusing intellectual property platform.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2011, early hacktivist group LulzSec announced plans to disband, and we looked at the impact this kind of hacktivism was having while the RIAA was citing such groups as another reason for passing the PROTECT IP act. Sony’s CEO was blaming its own hacking woes on people wanting everything for free, while PS3 jailbreaker George Hotz (aka GeoHot) was hired by Facebook. Meanwhile, Righthaven’s troubles continued with racketeering claims brought in South Carolina and similar claims made in Nevada, while the company was begging to be put back into a case it was dismissed from and trying to avoid sanctions by blaming its lawyer. Amidst this, we looked at the silver lining of Righthaven’s activities: they helped to establish a much more expansive view of fair use when it comes to copying newspaper articles.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2006, newspapers were at the peak of their efforts to block people from reading their work for free online. The fact that IP addresses are not people (and weren’t in 2006 either) was proving an effective way of getting the RIAA to drop lawsuits. Amazon’s plans to get into the video download business were leaked, while Metallica finally caved and decided to sell music downloads in iTunes, and Kazaa settled its lawsuit with the music industry and announced plans to go legit while Torrentspy was facing its own lawsuit and asking why Hollywood wasn’t suing Google too.
Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: June 27th – July 3rd”
Talk Talk
Please. If you are going to invoke Talk Talk in your spam, then at least link to the 80’s band of the same name, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_WCU_oxIiA and their official channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC95Qg-xb1eN4dv7bVA6xmeA
Re: Talk Talk
Talk Talk is UK ISP. All he was doing was trying to filter his spam through their search engine in order to avoid the blocks that come with a direct URL.
But, sure, promoting a band is always good even if that’s not what he intended to promote 😉
Link Error?
The link for Hilary Clinton’s problematic tech platform is problematic as it linked to a story about copyright trolls using IP addresses to "prove" people infringed and a couple of judges who just don’t buy it. It was a good article, but I think it may be the wrong one.
More travelers means more opportunities, which explains some of the increase in seizures over the past decade. But as the IJ points out, seizures are outpacing the bump in travel stats.
https://www.acesetm.me/