Your last point then raises a myriad of new issues and eventually leads right back to the question of privacy and anonymity on the internet. Especially with movie piracy among the general public and other potential copyright infringements looming on the horizon, it is conceivable that the government will look into monitoring downloads and uploads. When they discover that such a process would be infinitely complex they might attempt to do other stupid things like limiting the internet to text. With just text left people could only pirate books, which the government could end by eliminating the internet altogether, except to serve its own evil purposes;) mwahaha of course thats a just bit farfetched, but an interesting potential consequence nevertheless ~kalyndra~
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yeah, we really want to be trusting nasa right now...
Your last point then raises a myriad of new issues and eventually leads right back to the question of privacy and anonymity on the internet. Especially with movie piracy among the general public and other potential copyright infringements looming on the horizon, it is conceivable that the government will look into monitoring downloads and uploads. When they discover that such a process would be infinitely complex they might attempt to do other stupid things like limiting the internet to text. With just text left people could only pirate books, which the government could end by eliminating the internet altogether, except to serve its own evil purposes ;) mwahaha
of course thats a just bit farfetched, but an interesting potential consequence nevertheless
~kalyndra~