"Whoever has the most money to buy legislation protecting themselves. My bet is the music/film industry will purchase the right to sue."
I'm betting you are right. I bet they just pass a law that compells the ISP to provide the IP address.
Personally, I think this is the way piracy will ultimately be dealt with, along with a host of other problems that crop up because of the sense of anonymity the Internet provides.
Ultimately, your IP address is not going to be private. You can go through whatever anonymizer services you like, ultimately the data, like a fuse, runs right back to you. Your ISP almost certainly can follow it. I think ultimately they will be compelled to by law.
Imagine how many fewer flamewars there will be when no one is anonymous anymore!
Use less means changing my lifestyle. I don't want to change my lifestyle. I warrant most people don't. Give me the technology that lets me be green, save money, [u]and[/u] not change my lifestyle. Surely it is possible.
maillemaker
Finally, I'm sure we will be treated to about 100 posts whining about how the US invented the internet and the world was so unfair. This is of course utterly laughable, as it simply does not matter who invented what, or how would you react to the Chinese demanding you stop using paper, or, omg, firearms, because they invented the stuff?
But if you want to play this little game anyway, please keep in mind that the world wide web, or rather the technologies necessary for it, were invented in Europe.
It's not a matter of who invented the technology that makes the internet possible. (besides, we all know it was Al Gore who invented it!:) ). By that logic, the internet would belong to the bright folks living around 2000BC who figured out how to draw non-ferrous wire.
No, it's a matter of who built the infrastructure. The United States built the infrastructure that became what is today the Internet. To be sure, the rest of the world went and built their own infrastructures that tied into ours. But no one is up for telling them what they can do with their own infrastructures - we just want to retain control of our own!
I really don't understand the problem. As has been said many times before in this discussion, if countries want to set up their own Internet, they can easily do so. And then someone will develop gateways between them. Geez, we were doing this with FIDOnet and WWIVnet back in the dial-up days.
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Personally, I think this is the way piracy will ultimately be dealt with, along with a host of other problems that crop up because of the sense of anonymity the Internet provides.
Ultimately, your IP address is not going to be private. You can go through whatever anonymizer services you like, ultimately the data, like a fuse, runs right back to you. Your ISP almost certainly can follow it. I think ultimately they will be compelled to by law.
Imagine how many fewer flamewars there will be when no one is anonymous anymore!
maillemaker
Use less means changing my lifestyle. I don't want to change my lifestyle. I warrant most people don't. Give me the technology that lets me be green, save money, [u]and[/u] not change my lifestyle. Surely it is possible. maillemaker
Finally, I'm sure we will be treated to about 100 posts whining about how the US invented the internet and the world was so unfair. This is of course utterly laughable, as it simply does not matter who invented what, or how would you react to the Chinese demanding you stop using paper, or, omg, firearms, because they invented the stuff? But if you want to play this little game anyway, please keep in mind that the world wide web, or rather the technologies necessary for it, were invented in Europe. It's not a matter of who invented the technology that makes the internet possible. (besides, we all know it was Al Gore who invented it! :) ). By that logic, the internet would belong to the bright folks living around 2000BC who figured out how to draw non-ferrous wire.
No, it's a matter of who built the infrastructure. The United States built the infrastructure that became what is today the Internet. To be sure, the rest of the world went and built their own infrastructures that tied into ours. But no one is up for telling them what they can do with their own infrastructures - we just want to retain control of our own!
I really don't understand the problem. As has been said many times before in this discussion, if countries want to set up their own Internet, they can easily do so. And then someone will develop gateways between them. Geez, we were doing this with FIDOnet and WWIVnet back in the dial-up days.
Maillemaker