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Of course you will.
Just look at the filter the ISP's have implemented in Denmark.
It started out as a filter for those sites in countries that they couldn't shut down, and I must admit I had really no problem with that. It was "sold" as a filter that would block these sites and nothing else.
But now it is also sites with "questionable" content. Even an American sites that are 18 U.S.C. Section 2257 compliant have been blocked temporary.
And finally a site was wrongly blocked with the filter resulting in the users getting a page which stated that the site had illigal content on the site. Since the owner were listed by name in the DNS, it could give him a lot of problems. The police reacted a week later, only after the owner took it to a newspaper and they had to apologize. (most of the links were something I found pretty discusting/distateful but that is anotther matter)

But the result of all this, are a lot of false positive hits on this filter and many of the lousy frontpage hungry politicians have used the number of hits as a measure of success. Well duh of course you get 30.000 blocked hits pr day when you block entire free hosting sites.

There will be a law that says pretty much just that. After the European pairlement went to work on the "data retention" legislation (mandatory traffic data collection for everyone and every ISP) IP allocation logs and e-mail logs are pretty much all that is left. (The original plans, which predated 11 sept. 2001 by a year, called for keeping http logs for everyone in europe for years... I am not kidding )

Second few ISP`s would want to operate without IP allocation logs. It kinda sucks to have a spammer on your network and not be able to stop him. Sooner or later your entire IP space gets on a blacklist and then not a single customer can send mail.

Third, the music industry, represented by brein, really wanted this verdict. They even payed for the stamp collectors lawyers eventhough the guy himself was a lawyer.

Many organisations and governments around the world have expressed these sorts of fears about GE.

Not long ago, the operators of Australia's only nuclear reactor expressed concern about GE.

Korea (both north and south) have expressed their concerns about it.

The Dutch have expressed concern.

Even in Russia they are nervous.

So far google has resisted censoring imagery, but how much longer can they hold out?

The /. crowd is one that's all for open-ness (and the public availability of imagery tends to favour this), but politics is not known for making logical decisions. It will probably take one major criminal incident (aka terrorist attack) to occur where there's proof of GE being used, at that point perhaps google will cave.

Personally I hope this never happens, but you can never tell what will happen...

"Fortunately now the innards of a pro recording studio can reside on your home PC or Mac, and raison d'etre of the major studios no longer exists. Musicians can go back to doing what they have always done -- making music. Once the recording industry finally dies, those who make great music will earn lots of money from live performances and direct-pay-downloads spread by viral word-of-mouth."

Your post is very astute, but it raises another question. The observation that the Internet is going to kill the music industry Any Day Now has been bandied about since the late 90's. Usually, the same arguments are made: home-built recording studios will replace the professional studios with their professionally trained engineers, and direct Internet distribution will replace the traditional sales channel.

The trouble is, although this claim has been made for nearly a decade, I just don't see it happening. Universal has launched an online-only label, Apple has sold 100 million tracks online, and Apple and the record companies are laughing all the way to the bank. Meanwhile, brave experiments like Magnatune, which many Slashdotters probably see as a better choice for musicians, are foundering.

I think the assertation that the Internet will kill the recording industry lies in the conceit that the Slashdot crowd has an exclusive lock on the understanding of how to use the Internet to one's advantage. As counter-intuitive as it may seem, it appears that the record industry has hired smart people and tasking them with using the Internet as a sales channel.

I'm sure many will disagree with me -- and that's fine. To those of you who do, I'd like your opinion of when you expect the Internet to kill the record industry. Will it take another five years? Ten? And what will it take? From where I sit, the Slashdot crowd will need to convince musicians to stop signing contracts with major labels, and the record labels will need to be forced to stop using the Internet to their advantage. There is a tough task ahead of us.

It is, in effect the new frontier for innovation by companies such as Alvarion. Intel is pushing hard in this areas as they see this domain as an untapped area where they can gain traction.

This article is informational: http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp%3FArticleID%3D 3753

Of course, WiMax, is being promised as that solution to the perennial problem, the Last Mile , which is kind of what this guy is trying to illustrate.

Unfortunately though, the cost of driving a truck around, far outweighs the benefit of providing bandwidth for 'free' - One is reminded of the old calculation for the bandwidth of a truck, somewhat updated here, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of an Interstellar Truck"

I don't think that CNET qualifies as a "weblog." This one probably wouldn't be considered one, either...

... the same folks who are responsible for us Canadians paying a levy on every CD-R, cassette, MP3 player, and (if they have their way) every friggen hard drive we buy! Glad to see they lost this battle.

Dude. In France this is already the case! Read this one of many stories on how Apple owes the French Government for their iPod sales - since iPods have hard drives in them...

The "tax"?

"...capacity of 10, 20 and 40Gb, Apple should pay a levy of 10, 15 and 20euro respectively"

5euro = $6USD = $8CAD

Never mind all these war crimes and world courts and terrorism. How about the EU anti-trust case against Microsoft?