Posted on 06/03/2005 12:23:40 PM PDT by America_Right
They were seduced by the dark side...
Wah wah wah - they broke the law, they got caught, they got shut down. Whining "hey, there's more serious criminals out there, leave me alone" is basically crap.
Ok. You lost me, what is this all about in just plain ole english for us publix skool gradjewates.
Along with the gestapo like "Click it or ticket" roadstops all over the eastern seaboard, I feel so safe now!
F-EM!
Bittorrent software and trackers have lots of legitimate uses, and some that are illegitimate. Just like almost every other technology in existence.
Hundreds of billions from illegal sales? That implies at least $200 billion just from sales on top of free downloads.
$200 billon / 300 million people = $667 of illegal sales for every man, woman and child in the coutry. Those numbers sound more inflated than a scared blowfish.
Its not just Americans you know. There are billions of people in the world.
If they just need to exchange brief messages with links, you would think they would just post to Usenet.
I have a feeling you would react differently if they were stealing your property.
Intellectual property piracy has become a major source of funding for international terrorists. What's the problem with enforcing the law here?
The rips are quite a bit better than that these days.
Usenet is the sewer of the Internet, not that I don't swim in it a bit too.
>>One gets the feeling that such language is meant to cover the P2P operations with a very sinister aura ...<<
Yes, and for the same exact reason a private collection of classic hunting rifles becomes an "arsenal" even if police raided the home for some issue totally unrelated to a violent crime.
He who controls the meaning of words, also controls how people think. Only if the press disagrees with the goal of the speaker do they find ways to object to the words he has chosen, often by thowing in the "so-called" warning.
How many people actually know what Usenet is? NONE of my customers has ever known what it is. These are people who want to download free music with Kazaa, and end up ruining their computers with the spyware they get from it.
Anyway, Usenet isn't well known. A very small percentage of Internet users actually knows it exists.
By the way, I love Easynews! Yeah, shameless plug, but they deserve it.
That's why I suggest it. They'd fit right in.
The all-text groups are not actually too bad. There are some very innocuous discussions of crossword puzzles and classical music. But the opera groups are infested with trolls....
But I thought the BitTorrent guys were tech wizards. They could probably even get I2P or Freenet to work and use that.
Usenet can be a pretty brutal place, and is clearly not a place for noobie and those with thin skins. Every group has a troll or two. Treated properly they provide some amusing entertainment value. I always wear my armor and carry a sharp stick.
Its interesting to note the the new Starwars movie cited as the reason they went after EliteTorrents was actually put out on Usenet first and then moved to Torrents.
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