No piece of technology will ever come into general use that can defeat the Media Mob. They have enough money and power to nullify any countermeasure.
The battle for internet freedom must be fought in meatspace. Lawyers working for the media mob must be targeted, their offices firebombed, their families harrassed. They must be made an example of, abducted and executed, their bodies dismembered and put on display.
Anyone working on internet repression is a legitimate target for violence. Nothing short of bullets and fire will ever stop them. All their money cannot save them once they're trapped in their offices on fire, or stabbed to death in an alley, or poisoned at lunchtime.
Yeah, right. The darknets. The last refuge of the lost causes... How many users are there on those darknets? A handful? If Wikileaks wants to count for something, it must reach the general public, not a bunch of smelly, obese, unwashed neckbeards jerking away their lives in their parents' basements. Once a site is forced into the darknets, it ceases to be of relevance. Unlike clandestine publications, darknets require effort on the user side to operate and tap into. And what will those users do with the info? They'll simply browse it and do nothing because they don't want to be on the receiving side of the law which, I should remind you, wields a big spiked stick with a blunt end that has INSERT INTO ANUS written on it. They can put the servers on freakin' Oberon: if the law says it must go, it WILL go. Fight your battles in the daylight, not in worm-infested caves.
Nice job breaking it, loserboy nerd. Seriously, what it with you loserboy nerds? Why the fuck did you have to spill Batman's plans for every freak in the Rogue Gallery to read about it? Hurm? Do you fucking want the bad guys to win? Oh, I get it: you're one of those weird f4nb0is who root for the bad guys. You'll be sorry when the Masked Jocks beat you up and shit on your face(TM).
Seriously, why is he still breathing? Why hasn't he been taken, tortured and killed? Why hasn't his body been dismembered, his disfigured head sent to his family with crude drawings carved in his dead flesh? Why the pieces of his body are not in display all around the country? Why is his torso not gibbeted, and left to the crows?
You understand wrongly, loserboy. But then, being a loserboy means you can't really understand anything more complex than "fire bad, tree pretty". I stated that it's not enough to inspire people to get into science if they don't find careers into it. There needs to be an environment where scientific and technological careers are highly valued and students won't have to either spend their whole lives in academia or wasting away on jobs that do not require their skills or, worse, looking for a job and not finding any because of "overqualification".
A more science and tech-oriented environment is not only desirable but needed. But pony-trick shows won't do it.
And remember: Science is for jocks, not nerds. Science is hard, it's not pretty pictures and trekkie pedophile geek gullible fantasies.;)
Ah, "Balloon meets cigarette". When I was a kid there was this piece of shit on two legs, he loved to pop up on kids at funfairs and blow up their balloons with his cig. He'd go "oops, sorry" and walk away while the kids cried. We filled some balloons with a mixture of hydrogen and air, and tied them to an empty pushchair about 30 meters from the fair near the parking lot. Of course, he couldn't resist, thinking the kid would be around to see his precious balloons pop. He took a nice long drag on his cig, touched the balloon with the lit end and...
"Then consider this: The excitement of this single project will probably make many more kids in Denmark want to enter science than any previous marketing driven campaign for recruiting engineering students"
Yeah, right. Those kids will have forgotten about it by the time they're through high school, when they have to decide what to do with their lives that's actually doable and profitable.
And now let's suppose "many more kids" in Denmark decide to enter science because of this: where are the jobs for them once they've earned their degrees (those few who make it, science is hard, science is not for wimps and geeks)? How does busting your brain off in Physics for years to take a McJob feel?
Much as I wish private space enterprise good luck, it won't change the shape of a nation. Unless Denmark - or, better, ESA - decide to invest big bucks in space and bet on the long-term returns, chasing dreams won't put food on the table.
I know you probably meant "hoi polloi" but this is a funny slip of the tongue, because as a cunning linguist I know that in Italian it would sound like "oy, chicken!" which tragicomically and truly describes the loserboys who shower in Assange's diarrhoe.
What are those "better things to do" in the half an hour it takes to learn to use map and compass? Watch kiddie porn? Do chatroulette with your minuscule prick in front of the camera? Jerk off in a pile of your own feces?
I just love how loserboys always have "better things to do with their time". Reality check, turdheads, your time ain't worth a tin dime.
"Information wants to be free" - That's a misquote that became an inane internet meme. Information does not "want" anything. Information is not a thinking entity. And if it wants to be free, would you like your bank account details, credit score and other sensitive stuff that might deprive you of a job out for everybody to see?
"If wikileaks dies..." - Depends on its death. If Assange is arrested, deported to the US, tried and sent to jail or executed, NOBODY will rise to take wikileaks' place because of the fear factor.
Your basement is not a safe and cozy place anymore when fearsome men in uniform with grim faces and a mean attitude can grab you anytime, drag you kicking and screaming in a dark cell, beat you up until there's no bone left unbroken in your body and subject you to all sorts of "vigorous" interrogation and assorted facial defecations.
And you're a failure, typical slashdot loserboy. It takes very little time (maybe a fucking week of your worthless life) to get most of the stuff I have described done. Firearms training takes longer, but it's worth it. I suppose you'll never take a first-aid course, either, or learn to use a fire extinguisher because "anyway, there's nothing you can do yadda yadda". While you let your pitiful unworthy life being fully controlled by random fate or by the mercy of others, real people take all the steps necessary to have a minimum of mastery over it, and that gives us the peace of mind to carry on with our lives without worrying about getting our stuff stolen or burned. There's always a possibility it will happen, but we have REDUCED it. Meanwhile you have given up, you surrendered, you accepted the mastery of fate over the filthy mound of bovine excrement that is your existence. Instead of breathing in the fresh air of confidence that comes with having done the best you could to be prepared, your lungs are full of the accumulated putrid smell of ancient farts that linger in the Cave of Lost Loserboys. Take your defeatist and defeated attitude and begone! Return to your hole in the ground and trouble these fair lands no more! By the power of the Jock I banish you to the Underland of Smelly Doom where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth under the eternal rain of human shit.
Lol, a prison is made to keep people IN, not OUT. Of course, it's probably too much for your feeble mind to understand, you burger-flipper school dropout.
Having strong - but not overbearing - security at home is liberating. I don't have to worry about my stuff, and I don't have to worry about myself or my family when we're home. Nobody has to live in a state of constant paranoia because, hear hear, preparations have been made.
So, what are you doing with your time? What are those "better things"? Jerking off to hentai videos?
Typical loserboy mindset. I'm weak, I'm pathetic, I cannot win, I cannot do anything, waaah. And EVERYONE MUST BE LIKE ME.
Guess what, weakling, it's not the case. Only because you are worth nothing more than shit smeared on the pavement, it's not like the rest of the world must be made up of sorry excuses for a waste of O2.
Anyone who has half a wit and is serious about protecting their property, wise up: there is nothing like a single security system, security comes in layers. It comes from knowing the territory you live in, knowing your neighbours (if they're like-minded, check with the autorithies and organize a neighbourhood watch so you'll all be aware if someone's reconnoitering your area). It comes with strong doors and locks: the longer the opponent has to work on entry, the more likely he's going somewhere else.
You need more than one security system, the louder the better, and with enough battery power should the bad guys cut the wire. Do not underestimate the psychological effect, unless you're up with hardened criminals the loud sound and flashing lights (yes, throw POWERFUL lights in) will convince them it's better not to risk.
Dogs are good company, but if you're relying on your dogs to deter the intruders you're living in the past. Moreover, anyone who uses his pet as an expendable deterrent deserves to be robbed.
Footage of the burglars stealing your stuff will be irrelevant to the police, because quite frankly they've got tougher nuts to crack than recovering your shit which should have been insured anyway.
You have to put as many time- and resource-consuming obstacles between the bad guys and your stuff - and yourself come to it. You need an always-ready cellphone, with speed-dial set to 911 or the local equivalent, ambulance and fire department because in the heat of the moment you can't count on yourself being able to remember or, in the case of injury dial in, the whole number even if it's just 3 digits.
You want a safe room, reinforced, last line of defence if you're home and the bad guys break in. That's what the alarm system should be about first and foremost - alerting YOU so that you'll have enough time to barricade in and call for help.
Guns are good as the very last line of defence, should the bad guys break in your safe room. Again, disregard any shit about "it will only be used against you" or other nonsense. It's the equivalent of "you shouldn't own a car, you'll run over someone with it". It's the typical loserboy condescendence to which the answer should be: "you shouldn't own a computer, it will become part of a botnet". But don't get a firearm if you're not prepared to use it and if you're not serious about training. And when you're not home your weapons go into a safe, wall-mounted, and the ammo in another safe.
That's it if you're serious. Anyone else who share the loserboy's opinions, get buggered with a piece of rebar and drown yourself in a pool of your own vomit and feces while we shit on your face.
You're right. However, those people who believe you can own an idea have an enormous quantity of money and an army of lawyers which means they could say that the Earth is square, sue anyone who says differently and still win by bankrupting the opposition. They can have the Earth legislated into squareness. This is the enemy we're up against: they won't listen to reason, they make their own brand of reason and shove it down our throats. The only thing that can stop them is bodily destruction.
How will you prove it? And what if it's some private security officer, backed by a multitrillionare company that can buy your whole town ten thousands times over? In due time, those devices will be everywhere and public protests will be a thing of the past: push one button, all those pesky protesters have to go home.
No, the solution is to make retaliation a policy: if you're a cop or private security agent, and you're found at the controls of such a device, your home will be firebombed. Every such device deployed will be considered a legitimate target for firearms or incendiary weapons. The crews will be executed on the spot, their bodies desecrated and put on display.
You're absolutely right. The media industry's (and many governments') objective is not simply to stop any "counterfeiting", but to effectively correct the "anomaly" that is the Internet: a worldwide mass communication medium that can be used by everyone. This is not what governments and Big Money want, they want and need all mass media to be under control, so that the populace (consumers) will know what they want them to know.
Open source, freeware and other non-commercial ventures are also anathema to the industry, who tolerates no competition and especially cannot stand competition from entities that lie outside their economic sphere of control. You cannot buy out VLC. You cannot buy out Ubuntu. What is at zero cost for the user is ironically at infinite cost to the big players, and they cannot suffer this situation to be. Everything must be for sale, or it must not be.
ACTA will kill all opposition to the corporate-governmental entity in one fell swoop. If it happens, there is no going back. There won't be any going back possible. Political opposition to ACTA and all such proposals must be solid and relentless, but direct violent action must be considered and planned.
In the end, the media industry lobby must be destroyed utterly. Let's not kid ourselves. They will not stop, and must be killed.
You're right: the RIAA and the rest of the media industry lobby WILL win, and when they're done they'll utterly destroy the internet. They can do it, they want to do it, they WILL do it. Law only listens to money.
In order to change something we need to go after the people. Are you an investigator, working for the RIAA? You're dead. You will be assaulted on the street and stabbed to death, or will be shot dead in your own home. Are you a RIAA lawyer? Your offices will be destroyed, your collaborators executed, you will be tortured to death. Are you a RIAA executive? Your kids will be kidnapped, killed and fed to pigs. The next time you will see them will be as pig shit. Think of it: your precious son, now pig shit. Either this was is taken to the physical level, or it is lost.
Nerds and Bullies have one thing in common: they're both loserboys. The Nerd is a born loser who knows he's a loser but can't accept it and pretends "civilization" has "advanced" beyond Nature's perfect order that decrees loserboys must be wiped out; the Bully is a loser who believes himself to be a winner and will not accept his inferiority status, taking out his frustration on those he perceives as weak.
We Jocks, who are born winners, beat both of them up and shit on their faces.
Lions eat gazelles, wolves eat lambs. And jocks beat up nerds. The difference is, we also shit on our preys' faces, and rightfully so because of the toiletness of them.
Everything about nerds is despicable and revolting: their unclean skin, their scrawny figures, their foul body odor, their obnoxious social ineptitude and above all their loser attitude.
We jocks, who are competitive by nature, who are born to be winners, cannot suffer nerds to exist for they are the opposite of everything that is good and beautiful in Nature. That's why we grab them by their scrawny necks, bash their heads against walls, twist their arms and legs, and shove them heads down into unflushed toilet bowls.
And then we shit on their faces. Aye, we joyfully defecate on their wretched faces. We pile mounds of steamy excrements on them, by Nature's order and command that loserboys have no right to breathe the same air as we do.
Have no mercy for nerds, for they are do not deserve any.
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"I look forward to free internet access for all, free of corporate robber barons and gatekeeprs, a mesh network where everyone opens up access to everyone else."
Unfortunately the internet is being bought off piece by piece, torn apart and every piece walled up. Ever read "The Paul Street Boys" by Ferenc Molnàr? Look up what "einsatz" is in the context of the novel, that's what Big Media is doing to the Internet.
A mesh network is desirable but if only a few tech-heads can reach it, it's useless. The Internet should be used as a tool to engage the whole population as far and wide as possible, and change the established point of view that information must be concentrated in a few corporate centers and then redistributed (and bowdlerized) as dictated by the corporations. Besides, it takes only a bought law to make such a free network illegal (and don't kid yourself, they WILL attack anyone who violates such an expensive law - with private entities if necessary, there's money in that too). Any battle for information freedom must be fought - and won - in the real world.
"It's doable and should be done, and I think we here at slashdot are the ones to start it. As to "the government", which government? It's a world wide web, not an American corporate web."
Wrong. Slashdotters as a rule are sniveling cowards, spineless trekkie pedophile geeks who crap themselves at the mere idea of having to "fight" or "confront" anything. They're always ready to make up excuses to shun confrontation, citing "civilization" or delusions of morality. That's because to them, confrontation means defeat. No nerd can ever hope to win, because they're born losers. They will never "stand up", because it only takes a stern glance to soil their underwear and send them crying to mommy.
Moreover, "World Wide Web" is a fancy name. It's not anything that can prevent Big Money to rip it to pieces and claim ownership to it. You want to defend Internet freedom, be ready to take it to the next level.
Slashdot Mirror
No piece of technology will ever come into general use that can defeat the Media Mob. They have enough money and power to nullify any countermeasure.
The battle for internet freedom must be fought in meatspace. Lawyers working for the media mob must be targeted, their offices firebombed, their families harrassed. They must be made an example of, abducted and executed, their bodies dismembered and put on display.
Anyone working on internet repression is a legitimate target for violence. Nothing short of bullets and fire will ever stop them. All their money cannot save them once they're trapped in their offices on fire, or stabbed to death in an alley, or poisoned at lunchtime.
No, he just means he's a bit anal.
Yeah, right. The darknets. The last refuge of the lost causes...
How many users are there on those darknets? A handful? If Wikileaks wants to count for something, it must reach the general public, not a bunch of smelly, obese, unwashed neckbeards jerking away their lives in their parents' basements. Once a site is forced into the darknets, it ceases to be of relevance. Unlike clandestine publications, darknets require effort on the user side to operate and tap into. And what will those users do with the info? They'll simply browse it and do nothing because they don't want to be on the receiving side of the law which, I should remind you, wields a big spiked stick with a blunt end that has INSERT INTO ANUS written on it.
They can put the servers on freakin' Oberon: if the law says it must go, it WILL go. Fight your battles in the daylight, not in worm-infested caves.
Nice job breaking it, loserboy nerd. Seriously, what it with you loserboy nerds? Why the fuck did you have to spill Batman's plans for every freak in the Rogue Gallery to read about it? Hurm? Do you fucking want the bad guys to win? Oh, I get it: you're one of those weird f4nb0is who root for the bad guys. You'll be sorry when the Masked Jocks beat you up and shit on your face(TM).
Says the fecalmasturbatory kid.
... Still alive?
Seriously, why is he still breathing? Why hasn't he been taken, tortured and killed? Why hasn't his body been dismembered, his disfigured head sent to his family with crude drawings carved in his dead flesh? Why the pieces of his body are not in display all around the country? Why is his torso not gibbeted, and left to the crows?
You understand wrongly, loserboy. But then, being a loserboy means you can't really understand anything more complex than "fire bad, tree pretty". I stated that it's not enough to inspire people to get into science if they don't find careers into it. There needs to be an environment where scientific and technological careers are highly valued and students won't have to either spend their whole lives in academia or wasting away on jobs that do not require their skills or, worse, looking for a job and not finding any because of "overqualification".
A more science and tech-oriented environment is not only desirable but needed. But pony-trick shows won't do it.
And remember: Science is for jocks, not nerds. Science is hard, it's not pretty pictures and trekkie pedophile geek gullible fantasies. ;)
Ah, "Balloon meets cigarette". When I was a kid there was this piece of shit on two legs, he loved to pop up on kids at funfairs and blow up their balloons with his cig. He'd go "oops, sorry" and walk away while the kids cried.
We filled some balloons with a mixture of hydrogen and air, and tied them to an empty pushchair about 30 meters from the fair near the parking lot. Of course, he couldn't resist, thinking the kid would be around to see his precious balloons pop. He took a nice long drag on his cig, touched the balloon with the lit end and...
To this day, sometimes I still hear the screams.
Ah, sweet childhood memories. :)
"Then consider this: The excitement of this single project will probably make many more kids in Denmark want to enter science than any previous marketing driven campaign for recruiting engineering students"
Yeah, right. Those kids will have forgotten about it by the time they're through high school, when they have to decide what to do with their lives that's actually doable and profitable.
And now let's suppose "many more kids" in Denmark decide to enter science because of this: where are the jobs for them once they've earned their degrees (those few who make it, science is hard, science is not for wimps and geeks)? How does busting your brain off in Physics for years to take a McJob feel?
Much as I wish private space enterprise good luck, it won't change the shape of a nation. Unless Denmark - or, better, ESA - decide to invest big bucks in space and bet on the long-term returns, chasing dreams won't put food on the table.
"The hoi polli..."
I know you probably meant "hoi polloi" but this is a funny slip of the tongue, because as a cunning linguist I know that in Italian it would sound like "oy, chicken!" which tragicomically and truly describes the loserboys who shower in Assange's diarrhoe.
To fowl thinks up you need a duck.
What are those "better things to do" in the half an hour it takes to learn to use map and compass? Watch kiddie porn? Do chatroulette with your minuscule prick in front of the camera? Jerk off in a pile of your own feces?
I just love how loserboys always have "better things to do with their time". Reality check, turdheads, your time ain't worth a tin dime.
"Information wants to be free" - That's a misquote that became an inane internet meme. Information does not "want" anything. Information is not a thinking entity. And if it wants to be free, would you like your bank account details, credit score and other sensitive stuff that might deprive you of a job out for everybody to see?
"If wikileaks dies..." - Depends on its death. If Assange is arrested, deported to the US, tried and sent to jail or executed, NOBODY will rise to take wikileaks' place because of the fear factor.
Your basement is not a safe and cozy place anymore when fearsome men in uniform with grim faces and a mean attitude can grab you anytime, drag you kicking and screaming in a dark cell, beat you up until there's no bone left unbroken in your body and subject you to all sorts of "vigorous" interrogation and assorted facial defecations.
And you're a failure, typical slashdot loserboy. It takes very little time (maybe a fucking week of your worthless life) to get most of the stuff I have described done. Firearms training takes longer, but it's worth it. I suppose you'll never take a first-aid course, either, or learn to use a fire extinguisher because "anyway, there's nothing you can do yadda yadda". While you let your pitiful unworthy life being fully controlled by random fate or by the mercy of others, real people take all the steps necessary to have a minimum of mastery over it, and that gives us the peace of mind to carry on with our lives without worrying about getting our stuff stolen or burned. There's always a possibility it will happen, but we have REDUCED it.
Meanwhile you have given up, you surrendered, you accepted the mastery of fate over the filthy mound of bovine excrement that is your existence. Instead of breathing in the fresh air of confidence that comes with having done the best you could to be prepared, your lungs are full of the accumulated putrid smell of ancient farts that linger in the Cave of Lost Loserboys.
Take your defeatist and defeated attitude and begone! Return to your hole in the ground and trouble these fair lands no more! By the power of the Jock I banish you to the Underland of Smelly Doom where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth under the eternal rain of human shit.
Lol, a prison is made to keep people IN, not OUT. Of course, it's probably too much for your feeble mind to understand, you burger-flipper school dropout.
Having strong - but not overbearing - security at home is liberating. I don't have to worry about my stuff, and I don't have to worry about myself or my family when we're home. Nobody has to live in a state of constant paranoia because, hear hear, preparations have been made.
So, what are you doing with your time? What are those "better things"? Jerking off to hentai videos?
Typical loserboy mindset. I'm weak, I'm pathetic, I cannot win, I cannot do anything, waaah. And EVERYONE MUST BE LIKE ME.
Guess what, weakling, it's not the case. Only because you are worth nothing more than shit smeared on the pavement, it's not like the rest of the world must be made up of sorry excuses for a waste of O2.
Anyone who has half a wit and is serious about protecting their property, wise up: there is nothing like a single security system, security comes in layers. It comes from knowing the territory you live in, knowing your neighbours (if they're like-minded, check with the autorithies and organize a neighbourhood watch so you'll all be aware if someone's reconnoitering your area). It comes with strong doors and locks: the longer the opponent has to work on entry, the more likely he's going somewhere else.
You need more than one security system, the louder the better, and with enough battery power should the bad guys cut the wire. Do not underestimate the psychological effect, unless you're up with hardened criminals the loud sound and flashing lights (yes, throw POWERFUL lights in) will convince them it's better not to risk.
Dogs are good company, but if you're relying on your dogs to deter the intruders you're living in the past. Moreover, anyone who uses his pet as an expendable deterrent deserves to be robbed.
Footage of the burglars stealing your stuff will be irrelevant to the police, because quite frankly they've got tougher nuts to crack than recovering your shit which should have been insured anyway.
You have to put as many time- and resource-consuming obstacles between the bad guys and your stuff - and yourself come to it. You need an always-ready cellphone, with speed-dial set to 911 or the local equivalent, ambulance and fire department because in the heat of the moment you can't count on yourself being able to remember or, in the case of injury dial in, the whole number even if it's just 3 digits.
You want a safe room, reinforced, last line of defence if you're home and the bad guys break in. That's what the alarm system should be about first and foremost - alerting YOU so that you'll have enough time to barricade in and call for help.
Guns are good as the very last line of defence, should the bad guys break in your safe room. Again, disregard any shit about "it will only be used against you" or other nonsense. It's the equivalent of "you shouldn't own a car, you'll run over someone with it". It's the typical loserboy condescendence to which the answer should be: "you shouldn't own a computer, it will become part of a botnet". But don't get a firearm if you're not prepared to use it and if you're not serious about training. And when you're not home your weapons go into a safe, wall-mounted, and the ammo in another safe.
That's it if you're serious. Anyone else who share the loserboy's opinions, get buggered with a piece of rebar and drown yourself in a pool of your own vomit and feces while we shit on your face.
Yeah, like a hot chick like Maetel would ever waste her time with the average slashdot nerd who couldn't even hold a Cosmo Dragoon properly.
Except for a certain guy with a crowbar fetish.
You're right. However, those people who believe you can own an idea have an enormous quantity of money and an army of lawyers which means they could say that the Earth is square, sue anyone who says differently and still win by bankrupting the opposition. They can have the Earth legislated into squareness. This is the enemy we're up against: they won't listen to reason, they make their own brand of reason and shove it down our throats. The only thing that can stop them is bodily destruction.
How will you prove it? And what if it's some private security officer, backed by a multitrillionare company that can buy your whole town ten thousands times over? In due time, those devices will be everywhere and public protests will be a thing of the past: push one button, all those pesky protesters have to go home.
No, the solution is to make retaliation a policy: if you're a cop or private security agent, and you're found at the controls of such a device, your home will be firebombed. Every such device deployed will be considered a legitimate target for firearms or incendiary weapons. The crews will be executed on the spot, their bodies desecrated and put on display.
The enemy's weapon is fear. Time to escalate.
You're absolutely right. The media industry's (and many governments') objective is not simply to stop any "counterfeiting", but to effectively correct the "anomaly" that is the Internet: a worldwide mass communication medium that can be used by everyone. This is not what governments and Big Money want, they want and need all mass media to be under control, so that the populace (consumers) will know what they want them to know.
Open source, freeware and other non-commercial ventures are also anathema to the industry, who tolerates no competition and especially cannot stand competition from entities that lie outside their economic sphere of control. You cannot buy out VLC. You cannot buy out Ubuntu. What is at zero cost for the user is ironically at infinite cost to the big players, and they cannot suffer this situation to be. Everything must be for sale, or it must not be.
ACTA will kill all opposition to the corporate-governmental entity in one fell swoop. If it happens, there is no going back. There won't be any going back possible. Political opposition to ACTA and all such proposals must be solid and relentless, but direct violent action must be considered and planned.
In the end, the media industry lobby must be destroyed utterly. Let's not kid ourselves. They will not stop, and must be killed.
You're right: the RIAA and the rest of the media industry lobby WILL win, and when they're done they'll utterly destroy the internet. They can do it, they want to do it, they WILL do it. Law only listens to money.
In order to change something we need to go after the people. Are you an investigator, working for the RIAA? You're dead. You will be assaulted on the street and stabbed to death, or will be shot dead in your own home. Are you a RIAA lawyer? Your offices will be destroyed, your collaborators executed, you will be tortured to death. Are you a RIAA executive? Your kids will be kidnapped, killed and fed to pigs. The next time you will see them will be as pig shit. Think of it: your precious son, now pig shit. Either this was is taken to the physical level, or it is lost.
Nerds and Bullies have one thing in common: they're both loserboys. The Nerd is a born loser who knows he's a loser but can't accept it and pretends "civilization" has "advanced" beyond Nature's perfect order that decrees loserboys must be wiped out; the Bully is a loser who believes himself to be a winner and will not accept his inferiority status, taking out his frustration on those he perceives as weak.
We Jocks, who are born winners, beat both of them up and shit on their faces.
Lions eat gazelles, wolves eat lambs. And jocks beat up nerds. The difference is, we also shit on our preys' faces, and rightfully so because of the toiletness of them.
Everything about nerds is despicable and revolting: their unclean skin, their scrawny figures, their foul body odor, their obnoxious social ineptitude and above all their loser attitude.
We jocks, who are competitive by nature, who are born to be winners, cannot suffer nerds to exist for they are the opposite of everything that is good and beautiful in Nature. That's why we grab them by their scrawny necks, bash their heads against walls, twist their arms and legs, and shove them heads down into unflushed toilet bowls.
And then we shit on their faces. Aye, we joyfully defecate on their wretched faces. We pile mounds of steamy excrements on them, by Nature's order and command that loserboys have no right to breathe the same air as we do.
Have no mercy for nerds, for they are do not deserve any.
"I look forward to free internet access for all, free of corporate robber barons and gatekeeprs, a mesh network where everyone opens up access to everyone else."
Unfortunately the internet is being bought off piece by piece, torn apart and every piece walled up. Ever read "The Paul Street Boys" by Ferenc Molnàr? Look up what "einsatz" is in the context of the novel, that's what Big Media is doing to the Internet.
A mesh network is desirable but if only a few tech-heads can reach it, it's useless. The Internet should be used as a tool to engage the whole population as far and wide as possible, and change the established point of view that information must be concentrated in a few corporate centers and then redistributed (and bowdlerized) as dictated by the corporations. Besides, it takes only a bought law to make such a free network illegal (and don't kid yourself, they WILL attack anyone who violates such an expensive law - with private entities if necessary, there's money in that too). Any battle for information freedom must be fought - and won - in the real world.
"It's doable and should be done, and I think we here at slashdot are the ones to start it. As to "the government", which government? It's a world wide web, not an American corporate web."
Wrong. Slashdotters as a rule are sniveling cowards, spineless trekkie pedophile geeks who crap themselves at the mere idea of having to "fight" or "confront" anything. They're always ready to make up excuses to shun confrontation, citing "civilization" or delusions of morality. That's because to them, confrontation means defeat. No nerd can ever hope to win, because they're born losers. They will never "stand up", because it only takes a stern glance to soil their underwear and send them crying to mommy.
Moreover, "World Wide Web" is a fancy name. It's not anything that can prevent Big Money to rip it to pieces and claim ownership to it. You want to defend Internet freedom, be ready to take it to the next level.