The Death of the Mind

In the first week of January, we closed the Free Software Foundation’s end of the year fundraiser and associate membership drive, and we’d like to thank you for your generosity and support. Because of you, we’ve raised $441,802 and had 488 new associate members join — surpassing our goal of 400 new members. Thank you for donating, joining, and spreading the word. Your support is just what we need to push the free software movement…

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With only days to go before the planned conclusion of the new EU Directive on Copyright in the Single Digital Market, Europe’s largest and most powerful rightsholder groups — from the Premier League to the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Association of Commercial Television in Europe — have published an open letter calling for a halt to negotiations, repeating their message from late last year: namely, that the Directive will give the whip hand…

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