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

from the exact-as-it-ever-was dept

5 Several years Ago

This week in 2017, new CIA director Mike Pompeo went on a hypocritical rant about Wikileaks and free of charge speech, the administration killed Open up.Gov, and the DOJ manager was railing in opposition to encryption. Tech businesses were being battling from Trump’s vacation bans in two unique courts, and Roku was receiving into the lobbying planet to combat for web neutrality. In the meantime, Google’s rumored go to create an ad blocker into the Chrome browser was boosting strange antitrust questions, though the renowned Fearless Lady statue positioned future to the Wall Street Bull was boosting silly copyright notions.

Ten Years In the past

This week in 2012, ACTA was edging closer to demise as its remaining EU supporters started off wondering about rejecting it, and the Rapporteur’s suggestion was to scrap it and come up with a substitution (which it seemed like G8 countries may possibly by now be tricky at work on). The Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN was playing whac-a-mole in opposition to the Pirate Bay but not often obtaining its way in court docket. The Meguapload legal struggle was continuing, the API copyright battle concerning Google and Oracle was acquiring begun, and the legislative battle was on over the terrible cybersecurity monthly bill CISPA. We also took a closer search at the extent of the revolving door between the govt and the MPAA.

Fifteen Decades Back

This week in 2007, Microsoft was hard Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick on antitrust grounds, a choose turned down webcasters’ complains about new webcast royalty fees, and Very clear Channel was getting incredibly hypocritical about media consolidation. An effort to exhibit prior artwork on Verizon’s VoIP patents was moving slowly, when a new patent reform work in Congress was lacking the big photo. Also: the FCC admitted it sucks at measuring broadband opposition, Jack Thompson settled his lawsuit with Acquire-Two Interactive, Sony’s DVD DRM was leading to issues, and (long just before the cord-slicing craze was in entire swing) Time Warner was shifting to decrease its reliance on cable Television.

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