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Note: Other key issues focused on by the EFF in recent years have included laws
against the "export" of encryption technologies, and new threats not only to net neutrality
but to free speech brought on by a host of commercial entities.
"While early threats to our right to communicate came from the government, current
threats come also from industry, as it seeks to control and expand current revenue sources at
the expense of traditional fair use," the EFF said in a recent statement. "The trend has been
for industry to use a combination of law and technology to suppress the rights of people
using technology. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of copyright law, where
the movie and recording studios are trying to dumb down technology to serve their 'bottom
lines' and manipulate copyright laws to tip the delicate balance toward intellectual property
ownership and away from the right to think and speak freely." The fight is ongoing.
