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Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' on Thursday December 11, 2014 @07:40AM (#8734397)
There's a tax in some countries over blank CD/DVD exactly for that reason, enabling illegal copying. It is a crazy world, anything is possible.

Edit: found a link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

Re:Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?' on Thursday December 11, 2014 @07:30AM (#8734365)
Hollywood is just the testbed. If you can transmit Hollywood stuff to the masses without a way for them to stop you, then you can transmit other more important information when the time comes.
Now try to do that trick on proprietary software.