{"id":25704,"date":"2022-12-23T22:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T22:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/this-week-in-techdirt-history-december-18th-24th\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T22:13:21","slug":"this-week-in-techdirt-history-december-18th-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/this-week-in-techdirt-history-december-18th-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Techdirt History: December 18th \u2013 24th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the holiday-edition<\/i> dept<\/h3>\n

Five Years Ago<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week in 2017, the chips started to fall in the wake of the net neutrality appeal. A tonedeaf video starring Ajit Pai led to one of those internet situations where everyone is wrong<\/a>, while Pai was insisting net neutrality supporters were wrong about everything since Twitter hadn\u2019t immediately died<\/a>. Comcast began its push for a terrible new net neutrality law<\/a> in earnest, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn was right on cue with a bill to make the FCC\u2019s decision permanent<\/a>. The NAACP did an about face on net neutrality<\/a>, while CenturyLink pivoted to asking the FCC to police interconnection<\/a>. And, shocking nobody, a FOIA request revealed that yet another core justification for the repeal<\/a> was bullshit.<\/p>\n

Ten Years Ago<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week in 2012, the MPAA was touting the millions of DMCA requests that Google receives as proof that it needs to do more to stop piracy<\/a>, RIAA lawyers were trying to rewrite the history of the copyright clause<\/a> with bad scholarship, and the Obama administration was gearing up to appoint Hollywood donors as ambassadors<\/a>. In the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, pundits and politicians<\/a> hit the ground running with the narrative that video game and movie violence are to blame<\/a>, happily joined by the NRA of course<\/a>. And the Prenda saga continued, with the firm accused of trying to start over again under a new name<\/a> while working on some new tricks for trying to get info on IP addresses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fifteen Years Ago<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week in 2007, we saw a notable ruling in Vermont about constitutional protections for a person\u2019s encryption key<\/a>, and an interesting case about whether a computer store tech can open and look at your files<\/a>, while Yahoo China was found guilty of copyright infringement for linking to MP3s<\/a>, and TorrentSpy lost the first round of its case against the MPAA for all the wrong reasons<\/a>. There was also an interesting lawsuit against a blogger that combined many interesting legal issues<\/a>. Meanwhile, we wrote about the myth of \u201cbalance\u201d in copyright<\/a>, and the need for our society to wean itself off its unhealthy addiction<\/a> to using copyright as a crutch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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