from the that-was-that dept

This Week In Techdirt History: August 23rd – 29th

This Week in 2016

• India Criminalizes Merely Visiting A Copyright Infringing ‘Blocked’ Site
• Anti-Piracy Operations Are Fabricating Links To Non-Existent Torrents In DMCA Notices
• Peter Thiel’s Lawyer Now Sending Questionable Defamation Threat Letters To Media On Behalf Of Melania Trump
• Copyright Group, In Arguing Against FCC’s Set Top Box Proposal, Appears To Argue That VCRs & DVRs Are Also Illegal
• Lawyer Sues Basically All Mainstream Media For RICO Violations For How They Report On Donald Trump
• Team Prenda Done Fighting Judge Otis Wright

This Week in 2011

• RIAA Files Expected Appeal Over Judge’s Decision To Decrease Jury Award In Jammie Thomas Trial
• MP3Tunes Ruling Protects DMCA Safe Harbors
• Australian Government Considering Three Strikes; Consumers Not Considered Stakeholders
• EMI Doesn’t Pay Royalties, Or It Does, But To The Wrong People, Or It Doesn’t, Or Maybe It Does…
• Washington Post Editorial Claims Piracy ‘Costs’ Companies Millions; Believes PROTECT IP Won’t Be ‘More Sweeping Than Necessary’
• Paul Vixie Explains How PROTECT IP Will Break The Internet

This Week in 2006

• Companies Don’t Want To Put Jobs Online… So Some Politicians Want To Force Them To
• The RIAA’s Last Profitable Business Model: Automated Extortion?
• Actually Competing In The Marketplace Is Using Intellectual Property In The Wrong Way?
• Brazil Tries To Shut Down Google, After Talking To The Wrong People
• I Sue You, You Sue Me, We’re An Unhappy Web Family…
• Asking ISPs To Block Hate Speech Is The Wrong Solution