The final frontier in this battle is the cloud.

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The former cattle rancher, Grateful Dead lyricist and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been engaged in that battle for 25 years, longer than many of the young Internet users opposing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) have been old enough to sit at a keyboard.

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Over the last month, the authorities have turned up the heat on traffickers, closing frontier crossings and sending in troops and helicopter gunships to battle smugglers.

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Nine soldiers and four members of the Frontier Constabulary, a force that polices parts of northwestern Pakistan, died during the battle, two security officials said.

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