We all started there. I agree. My father and I were beta testers for AOL way back in 85 as a matter of fact the comp account is still open at least it was as of the early 90's. Anyway, we may have all started at the same spot, we didn't stay there. It is not their ignorance I have a problem with. It is them as a collective whole riding on a big AOL battleship so to speak. Collective ignorance is not something that puts a smile on my face. I did tech support for an ISP in college and man, those were some fools that want to get on the Internet, and the first thing 90% of them say is "Where is the chat room?". They have already been brainwashed either as previous online services users (CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy, GEinie, etc) or the media into thinking that this wonderful exchange of ideas and information is theirs. They say crap like "My Internet is broke" etc. Screw em, get them off, they are wasting bandwidth.
Personally, based on the quality of AOL (or the lack there of) and ignorance of there users (many of them still indentify their computer as a "Hard Drive" I am not worried about the future. Because anyone who has an ounce of computing ability (like the people who frequent slashdot.org) will be able to manage just fine. Let all those k00l AOL users think that they are using the cutting edge in information technology and think that they are using the best ISP out there. Screw em, besides I am sure when Windows crashes and burns (either as a OS as a whole or the one they have installed) We will get our last laugh.
I do not think the US courts would use this case as a legal precident. Laws of other countries do not influence the opinions of US judges. However, I understand the fear here, if it happens in Japan whats to stop it here? Another problem: What if you put a link on your page that was legit when you put it on, and then they change their content.
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We all started there. I agree. My father and I were beta testers for AOL way back in 85 as a matter of fact the comp account is still open at least it was as of the early 90's. Anyway, we may have all started at the same spot, we didn't stay there. It is not their ignorance I have a problem with. It is them as a collective whole riding on a big AOL battleship so to speak. Collective ignorance is not something that puts a smile on my face. I did tech support for an ISP in college and man, those were some fools that want to get on the Internet, and the first thing 90% of them say is "Where is the chat room?". They have already been brainwashed either as previous online services users (CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy, GEinie, etc) or the media into thinking that this wonderful exchange of ideas and information is theirs. They say crap like "My Internet is broke" etc. Screw em, get them off, they are wasting bandwidth.
Personally, based on the quality of AOL (or the lack there of) and ignorance of there users (many of them still indentify their computer as a "Hard Drive" I am not worried about the future. Because anyone who has an ounce of computing ability (like the people who frequent slashdot.org) will be able to manage just fine. Let all those k00l AOL users think that they are using the cutting edge in information technology and think that they are using the best ISP out there. Screw em, besides I am sure when Windows crashes and burns (either as a OS as a whole or the one they have installed) We will get our last laugh.
I do not think the US courts would use this case as a legal precident. Laws of other countries do not influence the opinions of US judges. However, I understand the fear here, if it happens in Japan whats to stop it here? Another problem: What if you put a link on your page that was legit when you put it on, and then they change their content.