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EFF: Join Students and Scholars In Speaking Out About the Effects of Mass Surveillance on Campus.
When universities cease to run their own email servers and force students onto gmail, that is part of massive surveillance on campus.
A new surveillance and security threat: the US government's one-size-fits-all internet ID.
Comcast is trying to destroy the practice of billing that makes competing ISPs possible. And the Comcast merger would give it more power to do this.
A study of unauthorized sharing computes by extrapolation that the fines demanded by the copyright industry total about 6 times the world's GDP.
It is not valid to extrapolate from Finland to the whole world. I expect that at least half the world's population has never received a copy of any song or movie over the internet. But even if we suppose that only 16% of the world's population behaves like Finns, the fines would still equal the world's GDP.
Please don't refer to unauthorized sharing as "piracy". That's a smear term promoted by the publishers that make these bogus claims about "losses". Every time you refer to sharing as "piracy", you give them very helpful support.
I reserve the term "pirate" to refer to someone that raids ships.
Using the word "steal" to refer to making a copy is likewise propaganda, as well as evidently false.
US pot farmers are putting Mexican pot farmers out of business.