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Life on The Net in 2004
NewtonsLaw writes "In recent years the Net has changed very quickly from a great place for geeks and nerds into a highly commercialized marketplace in which everyone is making a grab for your wallet. If it's not wave after wave of spam in your mailbox, it's excessively intrusive ad banners and popups, or demands by websites that you pay a subscription for access.
The DMCA and other pending legislation could soon mean that companies such as Microsoft and the recording labels will cement their total ownership of your online rights -- leaving you with nothing but a hefty bill to pay whenever you want to use their software or services.
Today's Aardvark Daily carries an interesting editorial that speculates on just what life could be like in the very near future. Sobering -- but perhaps not too far from reality?"
is it me, or does this story seem like it was piped from /dev/katz?
Buying a Dell computer is equivalent to dropping the soap in a prison shower.
OPEN TECHNOLOGY MOVEMENT
Please support it
The only way to fight back, is to get serious and forget these damn petitions.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
http://www.thelinuxshow.com/otc.htm Join the open technology movement, the plan is for you to raise money via rallys and fundraising or however you can get people to donate, and then you donate that money to Open Technology Movement This will allow us to hire a lobbyist, and allow us to have even bigger fund raises, like marching in front of washington. The only way to stop this is by actions, forget petitions. raise some funds and donate a few thousand dollars, if we all do this at our college campus's we'll be able to generate a few hundred thousand bucks
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac