Comments on: Eight news stories 12.3 http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/03/12/eight-news-stories-123/ A veteran's view on marketing games Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stone Bytes http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/03/12/eight-news-stories-123/comment-page-1/#comment-4217 Stone Bytes Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:33:10 +0000 http://www.bruceongames.com/?p=1507#comment-4217 "The French National Assembly are now debating the strictest anti P2P law in the world. This will be an interesting experiment. Will they be able to stop the millions of people who now steal their digital content instead of paying for it? Will doing so lead to a renaissance in the creative arts that have been badly hit by the massive theft of their work? And will they be able to do so without impinging upon rights and freedoms?" I think it's necessary to understand that this bill threatens NETWORK NEUTRALITY. The major problem, skimmed over by the media, is that by breaking this etiquette, it sends the message that not only Internet providers will, from now, be enlisted to do the gestapo job for the governments, but they're literally encouraged to do so by governments and nothing much can stop this train wreck. Now, should we be surprised? Well, surely, it won't speak to you, but knowing a decent bit about French culture, it's not the first time that Mr. Denis Olivennes (FNAC head honcho) has been at the helm of such protrust bills (since HADOPI is just the sequel to his former attempt, humbly called "Olivennes Law"), some of them literally having the name of companies attached to them in the judicial texts, just to highlight how far corporation and state go hand in hand when it's right. The same mentality which has allowed the taxation of all types of memory supports (hard drives, discs, USB keys, etc.) to fight piracy and "heal" those big companies which were hurt. Damn, I have that pile of blank DVDs right next to my screen, only used to store extremely important stuff, and part of the money spent on these DVDs went into the pockets of those giants who keep making millions year after year. The worst part in this is how the law would allow groups requiring private data about customers without even having a judge's greenlight. Some people protested in the front of the Natrional Assembly building, so the police sent its troopers, clean and shaved in their nifty battle armors. http://static.pcinpact.com/images/bd/news/68627-manifestation-assemblee-nationale-lionel-tardy.jpg I'm also terribly concerned about the idea of having hotspots using white lists of approved websites, without exactly knowing for the moment how these lists are assembled. It's giving disputable ideas to other countries. Besides, I smell a leap here, because we're talking about P2P and darknet. Maybe they'd manage to cut torrent that way, good, but I think they could only totally secure Internet on such spots by talking about approved IPs. However, anyone understands where filtering IPs can lead to. “The French National Assembly are now debating the strictest anti P2P law in the world. This will be an interesting experiment. Will they be able to stop the millions of people who now steal their digital content instead of paying for it? Will doing so lead to a renaissance in the creative arts that have been badly hit by the massive theft of their work? And will they be able to do so without impinging upon rights and freedoms?”

I think it’s necessary to understand that this bill threatens NETWORK NEUTRALITY.

The major problem, skimmed over by the media, is that by breaking this etiquette, it sends the message that not only Internet providers will, from now, be enlisted to do the gestapo job for the governments, but they’re literally encouraged to do so by governments and nothing much can stop this train wreck.

Now, should we be surprised? Well, surely, it won’t speak to you, but knowing a decent bit about French culture, it’s not the first time that Mr. Denis Olivennes (FNAC head honcho) has been at the helm of such protrust bills (since HADOPI is just the sequel to his former attempt, humbly called “Olivennes Law”), some of them literally having the name of companies attached to them in the judicial texts, just to highlight how far corporation and state go hand in hand when it’s right. The same mentality which has allowed the taxation of all types of memory supports (hard drives, discs, USB keys, etc.) to fight piracy and “heal” those big companies which were hurt. Damn, I have that pile of blank DVDs right next to my screen, only used to store extremely important stuff, and part of the money spent on these DVDs went into the pockets of those giants who keep making millions year after year.

The worst part in this is how the law would allow groups requiring private data about customers without even having a judge’s greenlight.

Some people protested in the front of the Natrional Assembly building, so the police sent its troopers, clean and shaved in their nifty battle armors.

http://static.pcinpact.com/images/bd/news/68627-manifestation-assemblee-nationale-lionel-tardy.jpg

I’m also terribly concerned about the idea of having hotspots using white lists of approved websites, without exactly knowing for the moment how these lists are assembled. It’s giving disputable ideas to other countries.
Besides, I smell a leap here, because we’re talking about P2P and darknet. Maybe they’d manage to cut torrent that way, good, but I think they could only totally secure Internet on such spots by talking about approved IPs.
However, anyone understands where filtering IPs can lead to.

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