"There are so many people under repressive regimes for whom filesharing and the Internet is the link to the rest of the world that inspires, gives hope and makes it endurable to fight for human rights and democracy. The state's control system is expanding. We used to heavily criticize the intrusions of privacy and control systems in place behind the Iron Curtain, but now we are building this ourselves." -- Akko Karlsson, member of the Swedish Green Party's executive board, "Filesharing is not theft" [editorial published in two Swedish newspapers, I don't have a link to a copy of the entire editorial], as reported on TorrentFreak 2008-02-09