This Week In Techdirt History: May 1st – 7th

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Five Several years Back

This 7 days in 2017, the NSA was shutting down its 702 program, but with a full large amount of caveats and some questionable statements, whilst the general public dump of the agency’s hacking toolkit was causing privacy complications. In the meantime, James Comey was testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee and hinting at expanded NSL powers and encryption backdoors, then adhering to that up with some problematic thoughts about journalism. This was also the week that Chris Dodd introduced he was “stepping down” from the MPAA.

Ten Yrs In the past

This 7 days in 2012, the UK’s High Courtroom requested ISPs to block the Pirate Bay, primary (of program) to record targeted visitors for the web-site. Eric Goldman sent a brutal assessment of the scenario towards Megaupload, the USTR unveiled the most up-to-date version of its silly Specific 301 list, and a great ruling from the EU Courtroom of Justice mentioned software features is not subject to copyright. In the meantime, five many years in advance of he stepped down, Chris Dodd was fast paced rewriting the background of Hollywood to assert it was all many thanks to IP guidelines.

Fifteen Several years Ago

This 7 days in 2007, the Supreme Court designed two very good choices about patent regulation. Yahoo was next in the footsteps of Google’s order of Doubleclick, while rumors mentioned Microsoft might be arranging to do the similar. Google officially responded to Viacom’s YouTube lawsuit, when the seemingly jealous Leading League decided to file its possess lawsuit towards Google/YouTube. This was also the week that the Digg group famously rebelled around takedowns of the AACS Hd-DVD encryption important.

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