{"id":43559,"date":"2023-02-18T20:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T20:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/this-week-in-techdirt-history-february-12th-18th\/"},"modified":"2023-02-18T20:30:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T20:30:55","slug":"this-week-in-techdirt-history-february-12th-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/this-week-in-techdirt-history-february-12th-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Techdirt History: February 12th \u2013 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the and-that-was-that<\/i> dept<\/h3>\n

5 Years In the past<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week in 2018, we took a take a look at how we received to the purpose the place Hollywood is trying to attack the internet via NAFTA<\/a>. In a case with echoes of these about to go earlier than the Supreme Courtroom, the Ninth Circuit shut down a \u201cterrorists used Twitter\u201d lawsuit<\/a>. Congress was pressuring Ajit Pai over his failure to police net neutrality comment fraud<\/a>, whereas Pai was dealing with an investigation by his personal company for being too cozy with the industry he regulates.<\/a> And FBI Director Chris Wray was nonetheless avoiding sharing what encryption consultants had been saying to him about his bizarre approach to encryption<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ten Years In the past<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week in 2013, we checked out how the BPI cherry picks statistics to pretend that file sharers spend less<\/a>, whereas the pinnacle of the Copyright Workplace was celebrating the truth that mechanics need to know about copyright<\/a>, and a few former<\/em> Copyright Registers had been doing the publishing business\u2019s bidding and calling for limitations on fair use at public universities<\/a>. Music publishers had been additionally calling for strong copyright laws as always<\/a> and the IIPA was asking for Canada and Spain to be placed on the infamously silly Special 301 list<\/a>, all whereas new analysis added extra proof that extending copyright massively increases prices and limits dissemination of knowledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fifteen Years In the past<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week in 2008, it was unsurprising to be taught that the Danish block of The Pirate Bay resulted in even more traffic to the site<\/a>, whereas Congress was (in probably the most restricted approach potential) making an attempt to place some reins on the NFL\u2019s abuse of copyright laws<\/a>. We checked out a listing of quotes from judges who aren\u2019t swayed by the RIAA\u2019s flimsy evidence<\/a>, whereas we discovered that the Bush administration was spending more money on intellectual property prosecutions<\/a>. In the meantime, William Patry\u2019s weblog was residence to 2 attention-grabbing conversations round copyright legislation, first on whether or not a photograph is a derivative work of the object in the photo<\/a>, then a couple of new ruling that steered selling a CD you found in the trash could be copyright infringement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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