This Week In Techdirt History: June 17th – 23rd

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Five A long time In the past

This 7 days in 2017, we hit the deadline on the FCC’s comment period of time about rolling back again net neutrality rules, and released Techdirt’s submission. We also looked at how AT&T tricked its clients into opposing internet neutrality, and Comcast’s silly endeavor to say killing the procedures was vital to aid ill and disabled men and women, whilst Ron Wyden was telling Ajit Pai to quit lying about his very own responses on net neutrality. And in spite of supposedly staying a stickler for transparency, Pai refused to launch grievances about internet neutrality issues, and also wouldn’t release details to help its declare that a DDoS assault (not John Oliver’s display) brought down its web-site.

Ten Several years Back

This 7 days in 2012, Mexico’s IP business office shocked its anti-ACTA congress by signing the deal in any case. A patent troll introduced an assault on Facebook, Amazon, Oracle, LinkedIn and quite a few a lot more, whilst we seemed at how the patent battle above speech gadgets was accomplishing actual damage (not not like how the US’s secrecy was holding up a treaty to support the visually impaired obtain copyrighted performs), and a pretty outdated antitrust lawsuit about Windows 95 was ultimately dismissed.

Fifteen Decades In the past

This 7 days in 2007, the High definition DVD and Blu-ray camps have been warring above who had the biggest share of a however-very small industry, Clear Channel was attempting to use the XM-Sirius merger to get looser regulations for its personal acquisitions, and Google was taking a further swing at its try to get into the print advertising and marketing small business (while Congress was using a nearer glance at its acquisition of Doubleclick). Meanwhile, the MPAA was opposing internet neutrality on the grounds that it would hamper anti-piracy attempts, the RIAA was attempting to get out of having to pay some lawful expenses, and a Russian court mentioned Visa could not minimize off payments for AllofMP3.

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