>On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote: >Sharing copyrighted material in order to get the same is the only working example that I can see. If someone can point to reason why large number of people would give a fuck about fighting censorship, enhancing privacy and anonymity, I'd like to be enlightened. With working real-world examples. Unemployed cypherpunks do not count.
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