This Week In Techdirt History: May 3rd – 9th

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Now that our detour for the game jam winner spotlights is complete, we’re rolling out a new version of these weekly history posts after collecting your feedback. We’re shifting the timeframes to drop Five Years Ago and instead cover Ten, Fifteen, and Twenty Years Ago, and simplifying things a bit by just presenting a list of selected headlines. Let us know what you think in the comments!

This Week In 2016

• The Chilling Effect Of Mass Surveillance Quantified
• Once Again All Of Whatsapp Is Being Blocked In Brazil Because A Judge Is Upset It Won’t Turn Over Data
• Zappa Threatens Zappa Over Zappa Plays Zappa
• French National Assembly Votes (Sorta) To Finally Kill Its Three Strikes Hadopi Program
• DOJ Deploys Highly-Questionable Legal Arguments In Attempt To Save FBI’s Hacking Warrants
• When A Fingerprint IS The Password, Where Does The Fifth Amendment Come Into Play?
• Do You Own What You Own? Not So Much Anymore, Thanks To Copyright
• Homeland Security Wants To Subpoena Us Over A Clearly Hyperbolic Techdirt Comment

This Week In 2011

• Judge Slams Copyright Troll Lawyer John Steele’s Latest ‘Fishing Expedition’
• The EU Commission Tries To Defend ACTA And Fails Miserably
• Copyright Law Is Not Supposed To Protect Someone From Being Upset
• Perfect 10 Sues Again: This Time It Goes After Usenet Provider Giganews
• Senator Wyden Warns That Domain Seizures And COICA Undermine Internet Freedom
• Homeland Security Demands Mozilla Remove Firefox Extension That Redirects Seized Domains
• Righthaven Hires ‘Star’ Copyright Maximalist Lawyer To Try To Dig Itself Out Of The Deep Hole It’s In
• Hollywood Pushing EU To Sign ACTA Before It Has A Chance To Study The Legal Implications

This Week In 2006

• Monitoring Website Visitors Not The Same As Violating Privacy
• Epson Stops E-Tailers From Selling Off-Brand Ink Cartridges
• Senate Telecom Bill More About Granting Favors Than Improving Telecom?
• Big Content Goes Back To Sneaking Bad Rules In Through Treaties
• Teaching Artificial Intelligence Through Twenty Questions
• Data Retention Backer Mystified That Anyone Would Oppose Such A Plan
• Misplaced Blame Over iTunes Pricing
• More Lawsuits Against Google… To Protect The Children

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