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This has been an issue, and has been lobbied for, for at least two decades. The law may do us favors one day but that day is far into the future.


Has there been even a single move away from ever more draconian copyright? Just the last budget bill had provisions for more criminal enforcement of copyright and with bipartisan support. If this is a slippery slope it's a steady and worryingly unstoppable one so far.

Civil disobedience through distributed systems seems like the only answer right now.

Your legislators can't hear you over the sound of millions of dollars from Hollywood getting deposited in their campaign accounts.


Corporations can't donate to campaigns, they can only collect voluntary donations from employees and only donate $5000 per campaign.

And Microsoft does donate to all the ones you don't like, so on this theory they'd be doing GitHub's bidding.





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