RMS: « Last.fm says it didn't hand over customer data to the record company thugs. Strictly speaking, it wasn't Last.fm, it was CBS. Don't trust any Internet service for accessing music or video if it requires you do identify yourself.

RMS: « UK conservatives say they will end the surveillance state, but their manifesto fails to address many of the worst forms of surveillance. » — see laso: A Free Digital Society —

RMS: « The UK dropped its plan to set up a centralized big brother database to track all communications. Instead it will use a decentralized big brother database.

RMS: « The European Parliament voted to reject the punishment-on-accusation plan of the War on Sharing, but failed to defend net neutrality. »

RMS: « The proposal for a right-to-repair law illustrates the harm done by proprietary software in cars. »

RMS: « How the BBC is conspiring with Hollywood to impose DRM on broadcast TV in the UK. »

RMS: « When universities stand up to the RIAA, they can block the record companies' harassment suits. Students should organize to demand that their universities not keep records that could make it possible to connect an IP address with anyone in particular. »

"In this study, Kevin Carson reviews libertarian perspectives on “intellectual property”; the ethics of the practice itself and the harms resulting from it. He finds that IP is an artificial, rather than natural, property right; creating scarcity rather than managing it.

RMS: «The French national assembly voted for a law to give the media companies the power to cut off people's internet connections on mere accusation.The same law will also require people to install non-free software in order to make their