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As long as the copyright industries insist on trying to reshape the Internet to make it controllable in order to serve their interests, there effort will be fundamentally in conflict with Internet Freedom. To understand this, we need but quote Larry Lessig’s decade-old “code is law,” or Eben Moglen’s memorable “Freedom of the press, freedom of information, freedom of thought itself are now ‘implemented’ rather than ‘declared’, ‘protected’ or ‘guaranteed’.
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