http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

DUH LOLLLLLLLL

Give it up dude, the more you post, the more you irritate others.

Will it stop piracy? Hell no. It will just slow it down a bit. Piracy will simply go back to the way it used to be. Private and public dial-up BBSs and trading warez in person, face to face with a friend.

They can’t control or regulate that.

And I’m pretty sure most people who visit the site often and read tech news like this remember the same days with a 2400 baud modem including myself. But please don’t make us remember such painful memories though, that was just uncalled for.

Mr. X: There was no ownage unless you’re simple minded or mentally damaged enough to actually think something was said to merit such. But to “long winded write-ups being annoying”, I’ll ask you this. Aren’t blonde teenage girls who write something with an exclamation point then use bold on the statement annoying? Do they think we’ll miss 30% of what they said unless they do this? Most of all when they start the statement with “lol” as a bonus to prove their gender, age, and IQ. Oh wait, I’m sorry, didn’t you just do that? Yeah, consider not doing that again when posting, e-mailing, or messaging someone because you will remind a lot of people of a little girl. It might not be a change from real life but you could at least be a real man online. Now that, that’s ownage. Mean evil ownage but ownage none the less. It takes a fact or quotes someone, points out the obvious that the speaker missed, and then rubs it in their face to mock them publicly. I would think you’d be used to it by now to tell the difference. And if you’re still confused, what phishybongwaters did was give me counter-points.

Free Wii:
http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198100107

Just put his name in with part of his quote and google it. Be sure only use text in between any places where punctuation might be used to ensure the sites you’re looking for don’t break apart the text to add that “and then he went on to say” junk to ensure your search results are a bit cleaner. But yes, it’s very easy to do and you can find the source that is best for you that way if that one does not suit you. And I posted this “long winded write-up” reply just to inform you of that so you best be thankful even though I’m sure the rest of the people aren’t.

“For people like me, old enuff to remember waiting hours downloading PKZIP files of warez from 2400 baud modems over a BBS, this will not stop ir hinder my efforts one bit.”

Indeed. And god forbid if you had to download something as large as, say, 2 MB (!), it was an overnight deal. Compared to 15-18 years ago, our hardware and software today are practically like voodoo magic.

you serioulsy believe that the American people run their nation ! lol what a moron!

and you got seriously owned by phishybongwaters . And long winded write-ups are annoying.

You make some good points. Too bad you are spending more time trying to sound smart than you are actually researching the topics of which you speak.

They ARE making internet 2.0 you’d have to be a retarded monkey living in a closet not to know that. Aswell like I mentioned, Cisco and just about every other big player when it comes to networking and computer technology, are currently drawing up plans for recreating the internet from scratch. It has to do with creating better backbones and restructuring the internet for the uses it’s actually being used for. Let us not forget the internet was developed by and for the army.

Did you know that alot of big ISPs are setting up a system of speed levels. Unwanted content (p2p) gets shit speeds while companies and other LEGAL activities get higher speed links. Couple that with traffic shapping at the ISP level and packet filtering and you’ve just about removed all p2p traffic, or seriously reduced it.

For people like me, old enuff to remember waiting hours downloading PKZIP files of warez from 2400 baud modems over a BBS, this will not stop ir hinder my efforts one bit.

Yes it is impossible to regulate the internet as it stands now. But incase you haven’t noticed, things are changing.

And if you think for a second the internet is controlled by any government you are an idiot. 4 telco’s “own” the backbones and root hint servers that make the internet work. Yes they have made public access to this network a staple of everyday life, but that doesn’t meant he internet belongs to us. If they decide to shut it down tomorrow there’s not much we can really do about it.

The technology belongs to them and they CAN AND WILL decide where to take it. Obviously no company in their right mind would do something 99% of their customers would hate so don’t start building a bunker just yet.

The internet is NOT data, this statement alone shows your level of knowledge. The internet is the NETWORK of servers and links that ALLOW data to move. The data belongs to us, the network belongs to them.

If you break into your friends house and leave your keys there, they are still your keys, but because your keys are in his house does that make the house his?

Nope.

Sure we’d all love to live in a world of just laws and freedoms, but we don’t, simple as that. The sooner you come to understand that basically a handfull of companies own the internet, the quicker you can formulate a reasonable opinion.

So riddle me this. If the US government has the power to force big private companies to let us continue to use THEIR network unregulated, how come they can’t make them pay their taxes?

To truly regulate the internet by replaces the current internet with a “new” one, would require it to NOT be backwards compatible would simply mean putting new limitations on what the internet already is at the point of source such as the ISP or on the OS itself. Doubtful it’d ever be done to an OS as users would destroy it and every other OS would gain users. But even at the point of limiting the ISP, if they do not limit the speed, users will find a way around it as always.

And if they limit what is put on the internet as far as a website goes, they’ll find themselves not being able to stop it. Only stop the average or below average people, be it mental ability or their ability with a computer.

So what’s left for them to change? Mainly how users are monitored, allowing them to monitor everything you do and ensuring everyone has a static IP, and so on so forth. Nothing that changes the internet for us but merely makes it easier for them to crack down on people.

And what do we learn from all of this? 3 things.

One, the internet is simply what anything on a computer is, data. There will be no new internet ever. Only new implications of software and/or hardware on either end as the future becomes the past. Be it user made or provider/government made. If they changed the internet, it’d be something different entirely and no longer be the internet.

Two, the American government and based organizations that would have you think they have that ability aren’t the ones who are the internet nor who runs the nation. The American public runs that nation even if most of them don’t care enough to make any effort to vote (like me). But I assure you, IF they can “regulate” the internet and i am wrong, all it would take is one person to run for president the following year with only one thing in mind. Bring back the old internet and tell the big companies to blow it out their ass. I can assure you, he would be elected, most of all if people had to deal with more than 1 month of “regulated” internet. That is all it would take and it would come back. And if you’re wondering who would be crazy enough to run on that phrase, I would. So rest assured, it’ll stay as it is else simply be stuff you never notice until you’re stupid enough to murder someone and have to google how to do it. And if ya have to google to find out how to kill someone….you’d of gotten caught regardless so who cares?

And three, this John Feeney guy needs to redo his website he has linked. I seen more skillfully done websites in the 90’s when all anyone had was notepad and html codes. Hell the pictures even look like they’re from the 90’s. Quality dvds are not represented by crap pictures of them. Nor with a color scheme that looks like it was made for seniors with failing vision. Update that stuff John. Not trying to be mean, just trying to help your business look more professional. Martin, could you please post a log release to dream weaver or such for this guy? Thanks.

And that’s all kiddies. If you’re wondering why I make no mention to DRM and why others probably won’t randomly, it’s because this news is so old the only worthy reason to post about it was to see the whining that would progress through comments. Not only that it isn’t about DRM, it’s merely about control as everyone says. And the better your control works and is accepted, the more ya earn cause people don’t notice how annoying it truly is. But enough about Microsoft, I’m done ranting. Later.

A woman was convicted of murder with the help of google search logs. The fbi can hack your system, without a warrant, and never have to tell you they did it.

They are right now wokring out the kinks in a new internet, not internet 2.0 mind you, a whole new from scratch internet. Cisco and all the big computer players are working on it, no good can come from this.

Obviously there will always be places on the internet where the lines are grey, but they are actively making it harder to find those places.

Laugh it up and be complacent, see who wins then.

yea … right ..

Have you noticed that Steve Jobs (Apple), Bill Gates (MS), and Bram Cohen (BitTorrent) publically say they aren’t for DRM, and yet ALL THREE companies use it!

You know what I think of all three? Sell-outs and hypocrites.
=> “We use it, but we’re publically against it.”

If you’re against DRM, what does it say when you still use such implementations?