This Week In Techdirt History: June 5th – 11th

from the oh-the-memories dept

Five A long time Ago

This 7 days in 2017, the Sixth Circuit was the most up-to-date court to say real-time cellphone place monitoring is not a Fourth Amendment difficulty, and the Supreme Court eventually made the decision to just take up the problem. Tom Cotton released a bill to renew Section 702 surveillance permanently, just as Congress was receiving rather mad at the intelligence group for failing to expose how several Us residents are becoming spied on. In the United kingdom, Theresa Could was blaming the world-wide-web for the London Bridge attack and introducing a regulatory plan that would not cease terrorism and might make items even worse, especially due to the fact the attackers ended up well known to the authorities and powerful encryption was not the issue. Also, incredibly, the Monkey Selfie situation ongoing to get additional and much more bizarre.

Ten Many years Back

This 7 days in 2012, the White Household available up a weak response to a petition in opposition to ACTA, though Hollywood was holding conferences exactly where it even now unsuccessful to fully grasp how wide the classification of “copyright stakeholders” is. It was also about this time that the trend of Hollywood bending more than backwards to appease China was gaining steam. In the meantime, China improved the fines for copyright infringement, the Obama administration defended the insane penalties in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset situation, Germany ramped up its copyright levees on good condition media, and Eric Holder was failing to clarify why the DOJ censored a hip-hop weblog.

Fifteen A long time Back

This week in 2007, we took a glance at the escalating marketplace for the sale of discovered protection vulnerabilities. A lot more individuals were being noticing how “free trade” was usually a mask for material industry protectionism, Canada acquired a new anti-camcording bill, and a court taught Carol Burnett a lesson about parody in her lawsuit against the producers of Loved ones Guy. Also, courts had been starting off to understand that lifetime web bans had been unreasonable penalties.

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