Blender Foundation is for an open and free internet, and is worried about how copyright protection is endangering digital rights in EU and USA.
I'm fully supporting the protests today against the SOPA bill that might get accepted in the USA. With Blender Foundation being established in the Netherlands, I would like to emphasize that similar ideas have either already been established or are being lobbied here and in other European countries.
If you know the abbreviations in the title; keep an eye at these organizations or bills, investigate it well and make up your mind. Your own country will have similar organizations claiming to stand up for rights of artists, but in fact serve the interests of copyright-trolls and wealthy corporations even more.
What's the digital world you want to live in? I don't know all answers, but for sure it shouldn't be the big corporations defining it alone. A wonderful American document begins with "We the people... ". Let's make that true in the 21st century as well.
Ton Roosendaal
Blender Foundation.
(Instead of blackening, i prefer to speak up today :)