Disagreeing with US foreign policy is one thing, but being on the receiving end of US meddling through political and legal corruption in a way that undermines our civil rights cuts way deeper.
See also: USA prison industrial complex figures out how to break into the international market.
> sell-out to the US
"But Sir Scott's 486-page report finds: "In our opinion, there is no significant difference between the probable cause test and the reasonable suspicion test."
"There is no practical difference between the information submitted to and from the United States."
Well, so here is a great way the US is luring the world talent: By alienating the smart people with brainless and predatory policies like this.
Don't host your startup with a US company or at a European data center belonging to a US company (e.g. AWS or Linode in Ireland). And preferably not in a country that is a US copyright/IP colony (UK, AU, NZ, CA). Otherwise you're putting your users and yourself in danger.
This is an utterly useless truism.
How do you fire up a significant portion of you fellow citizens over copyright issues is the question. Stating, and I'm paraphrasing here, "Just do it." does not help in any way.
Talk to your local pirate party. Join them. Vote for them.
...and find yourself the subject of outspoken and unspoken discrimination for your political affiliations. Hollywood "owns" the word "pirate." It's too easy for them to make up some story about how all pirate party members are simply criminals looking to justify their evil, greedy theft of content. Most people will stop listening and join in the hatred as soon as an authority figure gives someone an easy-to-dismiss label like "pirate" or "criminal."