{"id":45754,"date":"2023-02-25T21:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/this-week-in-techdirt-history-february-19th-25th\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:51:46","slug":"this-week-in-techdirt-history-february-19th-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/this-week-in-techdirt-history-february-19th-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week In Techdirt History: February 19th \u2013 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the as-it-was<\/i> dept<\/h3>\n

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

This week in 2018, the FCC\u2019s broadband availability knowledge was being derided as inaccurate and \u201cshameful\u201d<\/a>, whereas the company was relaunching its map that hallucinates broadband competition<\/a>. We bought a transparent thought of when net neutrality protections would formally end<\/a>, whereas greater than half of US states had been pushing their own net neutrality rules<\/a>. In the meantime, Germany\u2019s speech legal guidelines continued to be a raging dumpster fire of censorial stupidity<\/a>, publishers had been making an attempt the \u201csimply belief us\u201d protection of the EU\u2019s snippet tax<\/a>, and Wired printed a giant cowl story on Fb that got a key legal point completely wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

This week in 2013, we took a take a look at the copyright situation surrounding the Harlem Shake<\/a>. The RIAA was blaming Google for its own failure to use Google\u2019s DMCA tools properly<\/a>, the Pirate Bay was taking motion towards an anti-piracy group in a bit of a stunt to highlight double standards<\/a>, and CCIA was equally making an attempt to show double requirements by asking for Germany to go on the Particular 301 record due to its attacks on fair use<\/em><\/a>. In the meantime, the Supreme Court docket was taking a look at thorny questions around Monsanto seed patents<\/a>, and the Prenda saga was still not over<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

This week in 2008, UK ISPs had been on the brink of serve customers ads based on their online behavior<\/a>, Australia joined the record of nations contemplating kicking people off the internet for file sharing<\/a>. Comcast was making questionable decisions in an try and defend its recently-exposed traffic shaping<\/a>, the Olympics had been cracking down on bloggers<\/a>, and the RIAA hit a brand new low in bizarre scumminess by encouraging prosecutors to make use of piracy costs as a way of going after drug dealers and terrorists<\/a>. We additionally kicked off a brand new sequence of posts about mental property points with a take a look at the constitutional reasons behind copyright and patents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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