This Week In Techdirt History: October 1st – 7th
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, the DOJ filed a new net neutrality lawsuit against California that was a giant middle finger to consumers and competition, while the entire broadband soon followed...
View ArticleError 402: Exploring The Little Understood History Of Online Monetization
I realized recently that I had now passed 30 years on the internet, having obtained my first internet access in August of 1993 — the same year that many consider to be the year that the internet became...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: October 8th – 14th
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, a federal court dumped another lawsuit accusing Twitter of contributing to worldwide terrorism, a law firm made the stupid decision to threaten Somthing Awful over a...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: October 15th – 21st
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, we featured a pair of posts examining the recent court ruling in the copyright lawsuit over Stairway to Heaven. A new study on the FCC public comment fiasco showed...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: October 22nd – 28th
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, the broadband industry sued Vermont over consumer protections and net neutrality, while a few states got into the broadband fight on the side of the FCC, and we noted...
View ArticleError 402: But How Do We Pay For Content?
Over the past few weeks of our Error 402 series on the history of web monetization, we talked about the rise of the commercialized internet, and how it enabled transactions online, leading to the...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: October 29th – November 4th
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, we wrote about a session of our election simulation game, Machine Learning President, that we played in Chicago. The EFF sued cops in California for refusing to hand...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: November 5th – 11th
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, there was another failed attempt to hold Twitter responsible for terrorism, while we were taking a closer look at the massive influence campaigns and coordinated...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: November 12th – 18th
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, the RIAA made a court filing where it warned about overprotection from copyright, Nintendo secured a huge settlement against ROM site (probably just to scare other ROM...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: November 19th – 25th
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, the government agreed to delete data copied from a traveler’s phone after being hit with a “motion for return of property” while, in something of an inverse situation,...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: November 26th – December 2nd
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, consumer groups accused the FCC of weakening oversight of cell carriers under the pretense of battling text message spam, activists were making one last push to...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: December 3rd – 9th
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, we looked at the utter failure of FOSTA as more lives were put at risk, while we learned more about why Facebook changed its priorities to support the bill, and then...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: December 10th – 16th
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, the Australian government passed a law forcing tech companies to break encryption, Hollywood and record labels were quietly asking congress to bring back SOPA, and the...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: December 17th – 23rd
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, a bunch of entertainment industry lobbyists were given a chance to pay $5000 to attend the Grammys with two congressmen, an appeals court handed another loss to MP3...
View ArticleHow Copyright Hinders The Preservation Of Modern, Digital Culture
A recent Guardian interview with the British Library’s head of digital publications, Giulia Carla Rossi, reveals the problems caused by copyright for those tasked with preserving modern culture. In...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: December 24th – 30th
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, a dangerous court ruling said colleges may be required to block access to certain websites, while we wrote about how ridiculous it is to make domain registrars liable...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: December 31st – January 6th
Five Years Ago This week in 2019, we kicked off the new year with a copyright lawsuit over dance moves in Fortnite, while the EU made its first attempt at listing pirate sites and included a bunch of...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: January 7th – 13th
Five Years Ago This week in 2019, we looked at how Ajit Pai’s FCC often battled FOIA requests for no reason, while the Department of the Interior was trying to rewrite FOIA law to make it easier to...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: January 14th – 20th
Five Years Ago This week in 2019, an appeals court let the FBI off the hook for breaking the law during its Playpen investigation, while a federal judge said compelling people to unlock their phones...
View ArticleThis Week In Techdirt History: January 21st – 27th
Five Years Ago This week in 2019, we took a close look at an interesting and challenging case about Section 230, while Google asked the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling about copyright in APIs. We...
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