This Week In Techdirt History: September 13th

This Week In Techdirt History: September 13th – 19th from the back-in-the-day dept This Week in 2016 - Colin Powell’s Email To Clinton About Personal Devices Shows Routing Around FOIA Is Business As Usual - ACLU Launching Campaign To Have President Obama Pardon Snowden - More Details On How Corporate Sovereignty Provisions, Like Those In TPP & TTIP, Are Dangerous - Prenda’s Paul Hansmeier Loses His Law License; Won’t Be Filing Bogus ADA Lawsuits For Now - EU Announces Absolutely Ridiculous Copyright Proposal That Will Chill Innovation, Harm Creativity - Over 200 Economics & Law Professors Urge Congress To Reject Corporate Sovereignty Provisions In Trade Deals This Week in 2011 - MPAA: Bad At Math & Bad At Economics - Accused Of Copyright Infringement For Reprinting Images Produced In 630 A.D. - Hollywood Accounting: Darth Vader Not Getting Paid, Because Return Of The Jedi Still Isn’t Profitable - Hotfile Responds To Lawsuit Filed By Studios, Countersues Warner Bros. For Copyright Misuse - UK Politician Pushing For Its Own Version Of PROTECT IP - How Payola Works Today… Or Why You Only Hear Major Label Songs On The Radio This Week in 2006 - In A Politically Sticky Situation? Blame A Hacker! - How Do You Hate Your Mobile Phone Company? Let Me Count The Ways… - Why Introduce New Intellectual Property Rights In A Highly Competitive Market? - Entertainment Industry Outsources Brainwashing School Kids To The Feds - Schwarzenegger Hacking Claims Crumbling Like A Bunch Of Girlie Men - Universal Music Publicly Threatens To Sue YouTube, MySpace Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: September 13th – 19th” This comment is new since your last visit. ⚠︎ Warning: Russian interference in the 2026 U.S. elections. To the Techdirt editors, and to the readership here—OT to the past, but of present import if we want a future: While covering Trump’s and the Republicans’ direct insider assaults on election integrity, please help get the warning out that Russia is up to their usual tricks. Note that they’re not only inflaming MAGAs: They also target liberal voters with disinformation to deter Democratic votes, as they’ve repeatedly done in past elections. Here are two select recent links to broach the topic: h/t David Corn for the links. I’m trying to get my hands on his new book, How Russia Won; the first above article is marked as adapted from the book. If DJT can say it, why can’t I: Thank you for your attention to this matter! This comment is new since your last visit. Speaking of history, has Techdirt chosen to join the anti-bot hysteria at the expense of its long-time Javascript-free readers? The “Javascript required” error pages have been getting out of hand recently—especially yesterday, when the site was inaccessible on most attempts.