| Its sad While I applaud the UK's ISP's for not wanting to be pawns to the RIAA/MPAA types, I think its proper to keep in perspective that these are the most photographed people on the planet with tons of CCTV surveillance conducted all over the place by their loving and benevolent government, so to think that these people (and I mean no offense) are privacy hounds a bit ridiculous.
I think the real story, and the real tragedy, is the story of how the internet has become what it is today. It seems to me the spirit of the internet has been totally and completely violated by just about everybody and everything. Businesses, from carriers to ISPs to websites have implemented tracking technologies that to track our every movement on the internet, where we go, what we look at, how long we're there, etc. In some cases you have ISPs breaking RFC compliant services (such as DNS) in order to squeeze a few extra bucks to show you worthless ads. You have Uncle Sam, not wanting to miss out on the action, looking over our shoulders. I've been a member of the internet since the mid 1990s (with a 33.6Kbps modem actually) and its just a shame to see that the internet has become like Christmas, everybody's trying to squeeze out every penny and the original message is lost.
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When the Internet moved out of the DoD and education realms, the movement towards generating revenue was inevitable. After all, somebody has to pay for the infrastructure if tax dollars aren't. |
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