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I'm not saying it isn't important all, I just think that it's equally important to work to defeat systems and encourage people to take said action, as opposed to just trying to spread fear and despair. Which is what a lot of films about privacy and surveillance end up doing. There's a name for that, it's called fearmongering. Obviously we can't stop the media from doing that but we should at least not do it ourselves.
And for any useful idiots who try and whine about how breaking those technological measures violates Terms of Service, terms of service in software that was handed to you is as worthless as the agreement at the bottom of my other comment. You need technological or practical enforcement of it for it to make sense. Like on this site the Terms of service are enforced with a ban if you don't follow them. On the other hand software terms of use have no such enforcement, as anyone who participates in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com would understand.