[book : freeculture]

Then all of a sudden a lot of basic civil liberty protections evapo-
rate to one degree or another…. If you’re a copyright infringer,
how can you hope to have any privacy rights? If you’re a copyright
infringer , how can you hope to be secure against seizures of your
computer? How can you hope to continue to receive Internet
access?…Our sensibilities change as soon as we think, “Oh,
well, but that person’s a criminal, a lawbreaker.”Well, what this
campaign against file sharing has done is turn a remarkable per-
centage of the American Internet-using population into “law-
breakers.” [.....]