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This Week In Techdirt History: August 30th – September 5th

This Week in 2016

• UK Gov’t Report: Facebook, Twitter, And Google Are Pretty Much Unrepentant Terrorist Supporters
• New Zealand Court Grants Kim Dotcom’s Request To Have Extradition Hearing Livestreamed On YouTube, Despite DOJ Protests
• PETA Has Lost Its Monkey’s ‘Next Friend’ In Its Crazy Copyright Case
• James Comey Claims He Wants An ‘Adult Conversation’ About Encryption; Apparently ‘Adults’ Ignore Experts
• Our ‘Copying Is Not Theft’ T-Shirt Seems To REALLY Upset Some People
• DHS’s New Election Cybersecurity Committee Has No Cybersecurity Experts

This Week in 2011

• You Can Copy Our Articles All You Want… But Please Don’t Claim The Copyright Belongs To You
• Pakistan Officially Bans All Encryption Online
• Pure Awesomeness: Two Chat Bots Talking To Each Other
• All Of Justin Bieber’s Music Removed From YouTube Via ‘Prank’ DMCA Claims
• Twitter Keeps Suspending Accounts Based On Highly Questionable DMCA Claims
• Leaked State Department Cable Confirms What Everyone Already Knew: MPAA Was Behind Bogus Australian ISP Lawsuit

This Week in 2006

• Cable Companies, Telcos, Have An Epiphany — Their Service Sucks
• The HP Way: Scientists Innovate New Ways Of Determining Ink Patent Infringement
• iPod Factory Makes Even Apple’s Treatment Of Bloggers Look Good
• RIAA Following MPAA’s Lead In Brainwashing Kids
• MPAA Rates Film About MPAA Ratings As NC-17
• RIAA Still Feels Entitled To Scour Everyone’s Hard Drives