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

from the oh-the-reminiscences dept

5 Several years Ago

This week in 2017, the Sixth Circuit was the most recent court to say real-time cellphone locale tracking is not a Fourth Modification situation, and the Supreme Court ultimately made the decision to choose up the concern. Tom Cotton released a bill to renew Portion 702 surveillance forever, just as Congress was having pretty mad at the intelligence neighborhood for failing to reveal how quite a few Americans are being spied on. In the Uk, Theresa May was blaming the online for the London Bridge assault and introducing a regulatory system that wouldn’t cease terrorism and might make items worse, specially considering the fact that the attackers had been properly acknowledged to the authorities and sturdy encryption was not the difficulty. Also, astonishingly, the Monkey Selfie circumstance continued to get extra and more bizarre.

Ten Decades Back

This week in 2012, the White Home supplied up a weak reaction to a petition from ACTA, even though Hollywood was holding meetings the place it nevertheless unsuccessful to comprehend how wide the category of “copyright stakeholders” is. It was also around this time that the development of Hollywood bending above backwards to appease China was getting steam. In the meantime, China enhanced 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 reliable condition media, and Eric Holder was failing to make clear why the DOJ censored a hip-hop website.

Fifteen Several years Back

This week in 2007, we took a glance at the developing industry for the sale of found out stability vulnerabilities. More men and women were noticing how “free trade” was often a mask for articles marketplace protectionism, Canada acquired a new anti-camcording monthly bill, and a court taught Carol Burnett a lesson about parody in her lawsuit in opposition to the producers of Loved ones Guy. Also, courts were starting to notice that life span internet bans were being unreasonable penalties.

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