You make some good points from interesting angles. That being said, the anarchy will have limits and is being watched by Murdoch to leverage who knows what else down the line.
I'm down with google too.. but what about the other big company out there (Uncle Sam) asking google for all these nicely documented users, er - citizens? They may be forced to hand over information that the government hasn't been able to correlate. Google stores it all, they don't have a policy for deleting old data and that is the main problem for me anyway.
Unless of course, the voice gateways into the PSTN could scramble the analog voice and then descramble on its way back into the IP network. But that would cost a bit more I presume... maybe illegal?
One thing I noticed when I installed Firefox, is that it comes with just one live bookmark. It is called: "Latest Headlines", and pulls the feed from http://fxfeeds.mozilla.org/rss20.xml/ But, this feed is the same as the main stories feed at BBC. I would figure people would click on these and get some more exposure to the BBC site, more than usual. This has actually made myself more aware of those stories, and made me more likely to visit again.
"The RIAA represents the world's major music companies, including Vivendi Universal, Sony Corp., AOL Time Warner, EMI Group Plc and Bertelsmann AG"
-from reuters http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technolo gyNews&storyID=2505231
AOL Time Warner is listed as one of the companies represented by RIAA, but what about their Instant Messenger, which offers file sharing capabilities? You can get files from any user sharing anything they want (even more accessable than these college networks). How can they be so picky and hypocritical? Microsoft should be sued too for allowing someone to share files on a local network... we could go on and on. RIAA is getting desperate
I go to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, you don't even need to do any of that by the way. All this so-called "napster-like" system does is index Windows shares. There are people here that sometimes share their entire C:\ drive for easy access or whatever reason (don't ask me why though). But anyway, you cannot access these local shares outside of the network anyway, no one off campus can download any of this without some sort of proxy or something similar. I don't really get how this has anything to do with the recording industry, it is more like a student project to index a LAN. They do not advertise, and the files that are shared can be accessed through doing a simple search in windows 'Find Computers'. Napster was completely different, it had the purpose of sharing media, and provided a way to do it that could not be done before (popularly at least, I am not talking about IRC). At one point napster even hosted a lot of the pirated mp3's on their server, I think that got them noticed and was a bad move.
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You make some good points from interesting angles. That being said, the anarchy will have limits and is being watched by Murdoch to leverage who knows what else down the line.
I'm down with google too.. but what about the other big company out there (Uncle Sam) asking google for all these nicely documented users, er - citizens? They may be forced to hand over information that the government hasn't been able to correlate. Google stores it all, they don't have a policy for deleting old data and that is the main problem for me anyway.
Unless of course, the voice gateways into the PSTN could scramble the analog voice and then descramble on its way back into the IP network. But that would cost a bit more I presume... maybe illegal?
One thing I noticed when I installed Firefox, is that it comes with just one live bookmark. It is called: "Latest Headlines", and pulls the feed from http://fxfeeds.mozilla.org/rss20.xml/ But, this feed is the same as the main stories feed at BBC. I would figure people would click on these and get some more exposure to the BBC site, more than usual. This has actually made myself more aware of those stories, and made me more likely to visit again.
"The RIAA represents the world's major music companies, including Vivendi Universal, Sony Corp., AOL Time Warner, EMI Group Plc and Bertelsmann AG" -from reuters http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technolo gyNews&storyID=2505231
AOL Time Warner is listed as one of the companies represented by RIAA, but what about their Instant Messenger, which offers file sharing capabilities? You can get files from any user sharing anything they want (even more accessable than these college networks). How can they be so picky and hypocritical? Microsoft should be sued too for allowing someone to share files on a local network... we could go on and on. RIAA is getting desperate
I go to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, you don't even need to do any of that by the way. All this so-called "napster-like" system does is index Windows shares. There are people here that sometimes share their entire C:\ drive for easy access or whatever reason (don't ask me why though). But anyway, you cannot access these local shares outside of the network anyway, no one off campus can download any of this without some sort of proxy or something similar. I don't really get how this has anything to do with the recording industry, it is more like a student project to index a LAN. They do not advertise, and the files that are shared can be accessed through doing a simple search in windows 'Find Computers'. Napster was completely different, it had the purpose of sharing media, and provided a way to do it that could not be done before (popularly at least, I am not talking about IRC). At one point napster even hosted a lot of the pirated mp3's on their server, I think that got them noticed and was a bad move.