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We found this article and the EFF website very interesting. We support P2P.
On September 8, 2003, the recording industry sued 261 American music fans for sharing songs on peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, kicking off an unprecedented legal campaign against its own customers. The recording industry has now filed, settled, or threatened, legal actions against well over 20,000 individuals, and there is no end in sight. While the strategy of forcing ordinary music fans to pay thousands of dollars that they do not have to settle RIAA-member lawsuits is itself troubling, many innocent individuals are also being caught in the crossfire. This needs to stop. It is time that we claim our Digital Freedom from the oppressions of the RIAA.
Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and let your voice be heard that you do not agree with the Gestapo tactics of the RIAA.
http://www.eff.org/share/
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“Aye, fight RIAA and you may be sued, hide, and you'll be safe... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our iPods, but they'll never take... OUR DIGITAL FREEDOM!”
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Examples of peaceful civil disobedience from Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King.
Gandhi first employed his ideas of peaceful civil disobedience in the Indian community's struggle for civil rights in South Africa. Upon his return to India, he organized poor farmers and laborers to protest against oppressive taxation and widespread discrimination. Dr Martin Luther King learned of Gandhi’s fight for freedom while studying at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, Dr. King heard a lecture on Mahatma Gandhi and the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign that he used successfully against British rule in India. Dr. King read several books on the ideas of Gandhi, and eventually became convinced that the same methods could be employed by blacks to obtain civil rights in America. He was particularly struck by Gandhi's words: "Through our pain we will make them see their injustice". Dr. King was also influenced by Henry David Thoreau and his theories on how to use nonviolent resistance to achieve social change.
If you love freedom, if you are not happy with the way the RIAA is treating its customers, then do something about it today.
http://www.eff.org/share/
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