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Donate $1.5 to EFF for every $1 spent on movies, music, etc.?

9 points| backprojection | 14 years ago

I don't really feel like boycotting the movie or music industry is really practical - the entertainment industry isn't _really_ a free market in the sense that if your favorite artist is on label X and you really hate label X, you're generally out of luck, unless you pirate, but I really don't have the patience to pirate things.

Should I be justified in having a clear conscience by donating $1.5 to the EFF for every $1 spent on movies, music, etc.? Is the EFF really the anti-evil-media-corporation?

6 comments

[+] akuchling|14 years ago|reply

A nice side effect is that you'll probably buy fewer DVDs, because the effective cost would be $37.50 instead of $15.

[+] AlexV|14 years ago|reply

As a non-US citizen, I am seriously considering donating EFF in hope to stop US imposing its' law on the rest of the world.

Thoughts? Has any non-USA citizen donated to EFF before?

[+] backprojection|14 years ago|reply

I don't see how this could be a bad thing.

[+] mooism2|14 years ago|reply

Evil media corporations also make money from advertising, so add in TV and guess how much they get per advert you watch...

[+] backprojection|14 years ago|reply

Well.. I already don't have a TV subscription. The only ads that I'm ever really exposed to are from watching The Daily Show online, occasionally, which are so annoying I always just mute.