This Week In Techdirt History: July 24th – 30th

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Five A long time Back

This week in 2017, Senator Wyden was trying to get solutions about how quite a few times Us residents have been qualified by a single of the minimum-mentioned NSA surveillance courses, though we noted the silence from tech providers as the clock ticked down on Section 702 renewal (even though recently produced paperwork showed even much more violations by the NSA). On another entrance, Wyden was arguing that the FCC is both incompetent or lying about the alleged DDoS attack, and Senator Markey was having aggravated by Ajit Pai’s justifications for killing net neutrality protections. About 190 engineers and tech professionals also signed a letter telling the FCC it was dead erroneous about internet neutrality.

Ten A long time Ago

This week in 2012, the Wall Street Journal drew the ire of professionals when it presented a terrible misrepresentation of the history of the world wide web, and did not difficulty any corrections even after staying explained to by Vint Cerf and Xerox that the story was just basic completely wrong. The Obama administration was nonetheless stalling a treaty developed to assistance the blind accessibility copyrighted works, RIAA was functioning on its backdoor system to use the “six strikes” technique to reduce men and women off from the web, and a court docket claimed the Condition Office could go on pretending documents leaked by Wikileaks have been nevertheless top secret. Meanwhile, the branches of the Mexican government were however combating in excess of their disagreement on ACTA.

Fifteen Years Back

This week in 2007, inventors and patent attorneys sued the USPTO about a supposedly unqualified appointment, the EFF sued Universal Music about a copyright takedown in what would come to be commonly acknowledged as the Dancing Infant scenario, and Prince (who produced the music at difficulty in that situation) was embracing new songs distribution methods. The RIAA was pushing a review earning the foolish declare that radio is terrible for music, whilst a proposed amendment to the Greater Education Reauthorization Act would drive schools to do the RIAA’s bidding or eliminate funding. Above in the Uk, fortunately, the government rejected the strategy of extending copyrights for overall performance royalties on songs.

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