by Sukunai » Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:42 pm
They've already crawled up the ass end of P2P actually.
Some days though, I almost wish we had transparent internet service for all but those snippets of data like a credit card number which makes sense to keep secret.
So you go online, and you want to sit there wanking off to something entirely legal, who cares who knows you like to wank to whatever.
If I go online, and I look up on the newsgroup for the latest files on the latest whatever, which just happens to be 100% illegal as the day is long, why SHOULD I be able to do it in secret .... really?
Let's be honest, if what you are doing is legal, what's to hide?
If what you are doing is illegal, tough shit if they should be able to see you do it.
You SHOULD get arrested for theft (well that's the logic isn't it?).
Data that isn't stolen isn't data that will bite you in the ass.
But what chaps my ass, is the double standards, the triple standards even.
I dumped Bell Canada, because frankly they were STEALING from me. Yes stealing.
I pay for broadband internet. And because of their lack of planning, because of their unrealistic promises, because they would rather take my money, and then just change the rules "and call it traffic shaping", they have committed a fraud. I expect broadband to be broadband if that's what I paid for.
But nope, they have lawyers coming out their ass, and we schmucks have nothing.
They say they need traffic shaping, I say they need to let fewer people on their network until they can actually handle everyone. They need to stop carefully managing the truth.
If no one COULD use their internet service to download massive sums of data which they had no claim to, it wouldn't be happening. Is it OUR fault we have gotten used to being able to freely trade data online? Nope.
I value my privacy like everyone else. I am not saying I have NO need for privacy.
I'm not going to defend online privacy though just so I can go on downloading massive sums of data which is not really mine to have.
I don't require privacy to post this message. It's going to be public shortly.
I don't need privacy for digital data I purchased such as a game through digital download methodologies.
I don't need privacy to order train tickets from here to there.
I don't need privacy to write in a blog.
I don't need privacy for an online game like WoW.
I don't need privacy for a lot of things.
I would of course like privacy for an email.
Or for secure banking or any other form of financial transaction.
But right now, it is costing me money, up front and visible money, to make use of Giganews a newshosting service. It's not shadowy or hidden. I pay it with my credit card. I also pay for the use of a newsindexer like Newzbin.
This is all up front and visible.
What precisely do our clueless overlords think I am downloading by the hundreds of gigs each and every friggin month fucking linux isos? (like some fools like to claim).
I don't care what anyone think of my insane sounding assertion.
I paid for that data. I bought it all nice and fair visible clean and tidy.
If they want to shut someone down, they can forget about me. They can lock up all the ISP, all the newsindexers, all the newshosts, every last group that's been taking my money.
If it kills the internet, fine, fuck it, they can rebuild it over with a grain of intelligence while they are at it.
Anime, one of the few things about the internet that doesn't make me hate the internet.