The wonderful folks at Downhill Battle spent Christmas helping the copyfight by pledging to send a lump of coal to the RIAA for every $100 donated to EFF, IPac, and Public Knowledge. This week, they mailed boxes of coal to California, and documented the process (including a brush with a careeer-ending injury when Holmes got coal flecks in his eye) in a hilarious photo-series with captions.
Downhill Battle sending coal to RIAA, documented
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