Hello everybody.

At the request of Lee, I seperated the paragraphs if anyone wants to give
this topic a second chance.

 To   : All
 Subj : ISP's are hirelings for the police state
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Hello everybody.

- Maybe this is a good example why we should go back to dialup days and still
use bbs's.

Understanding SOPA and copyright laws in the context of liberty.

    Remember that battle over SOPA, in which the worlds largest websites beat
back a congressional threat that would have changed the Internet forever? It
was pretty obvious within a day after this Pyrrhic victory that the existing
laws in place were enough to give the government the power to wreck the digital
world. But how would it happen? How would government end digital freedom? Well,
the excuse is obvious. It is intellectual property. This phrase serves the same
purpose for would-be censors that terrorism does for warmongers. It is a way to
ramp up government control while kicking sand in the faces of those who would
oppose such control.

Are you for terrorism? Are you for theft? Its rather easy
to detect normal theft. One day, I have a planter on my porch. The next day,
the planter is on your porch, and it got there without my permission....Now
imagine a different scenario. One day, the paragraph above appears on the
website for Laissez Faire Books. The next day, it appears on your Facebook page
or blog. But it is not thereby removed from lfb.org. Instead, it is copied. A
second instance of the paragraph has been created, taking nothing from me. My
paragraph still exists. And lets say this happens 10 billion times in the
course of a few minutes, as can happen in the digital world. Is this a case of
mass looting, or is it a mass compliment to me? Copyright law sees this as
theft. But how can that be?

The whole merit of the digital world rests on the remarkable scalability of
everything digitized. Thats the basis of the economy of the Internet. Its
capacity for inspiring and achieving infinite emulation
and sharing is unparalleled in history. Its what makes the Internet different
from parchment, vinyl or television. Remove that, and you gut the unique energy
of the medium. Intellectual property law became universal only about 120 years
ago. It was gradually expanded over the course of the century, invading the
digital realm in the 1980s and expanding its coverage ever since. How do you
make copies illegal in a medium that specializes in its capacity for sharing,
multiplying, linking and community formation? You need totalitarian control.

- from
http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2012/03/isps-are-hirelings-for-police-state.ht
ml



Matt

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