Japan is able to reach such high levels of broadband saturation because of the extremely small land mass and high population density.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Will Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > What you say is more depressing than it is "gasoline." You are confused about > the purpose of copyright and basic networking facts. I hope that "most other > people" do not have the same kinds of missconceptions you do but I hesitate > to project one way or another. > > Windows is a menace to networks everywhere. W32 botnets are responsible for > the vast majority of the world's spam and are used to launch all sorts of > other malice. This is because Windows has both systematic and accidental > flaws and each machine is essentially identical. M$ and many third parties > have been working forever to "patch" these problems and Bill Gates promissed > everyone that Spam would be a thing of the past by now. The cure has often > been worse than the dissease, to strip people of network freedom as if the > problem were users or the internet not Windows. This has greatly reduced the > utility of networks for everyone directly and indirectly. People who use > and recommend Windows are usually ignorant or deny this because it suits them > somehow. > > US Copyright is a created right that violates people's natural right to free > press. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 gives congress the power to do this, > but only if it furthers the public knowledge and the state of the arts. The > founding fathers of this country despised exclusive franchises as tools of > tyranny and control and copyrights were originally limited and sensible. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause > > Many aspects of modern copyright law betray the public. Attacks on network > freedom for the benefit of a few big publishers harms society in more > important ways than a missed sitcom. One of the first to object to > Comcast's throttling was a group that used P2P to distribute bible > translations. Scientific research is greatly hampered by people's inability > to create digital libraries, and I can assure you that scientists all seek > the widest possible audience for their publications without the kinds of > rewards that MAFIAA pretend to offer people. Laws that keep people from > sharing their own material with each other are UnAmerican and laws that > prevent private, non commercial copy are universally offensive and immoral. > Companies and business models which can't survive in freedom deserve to fail, > we will all be better off without them. > > Finally, you seem blissfully unaware of the shameful place US networks hold in > the world. The US is the most powerful country in the world but more than 20 > other countries do better than we do and places like Japan do dramatically > better. Instead of investing in a network that could provide everyone with > universal access to human knowledge, we have spent out time and money on > wiretaps that would make Erich Honecker blush, fighting P2P, which is one of > the most efficient ways to distribute popular content, and writing stupid > laws like this: > > http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000030&ct=1&SESSID=f246fced5098a13180e242e58f10e1db > > Several people have pointed to Lafayette as an example of how things can be, > but it will take a lot more than fiber to make networks serve the public > instead of a few vested interests. People like you need to be taught to > demand what's right for you or science, the state of the arts, freedom of > press and your privacy will be lost to the next version of cable TV. > > Please help yourself to my pictures, classnotes code and other projects that I > offer. Cox has yet to complain about my bandwith use because most people are > not that interested in my stuff. They also seem to tolerate other "servers" > such as IM and P2P clients which are far more popular and consume almost as > much bandwith as the W32 botnet spam flood. > > On Thursday 29 January 2009, Andrew Baudouin wrote: >> Not to throw any more gasoline on the fire with this, but you posted >> "People who use and recommend Microsoft don't deserve to complain about >> bandwidth". >> >> Will, you just seem to have much different thought processes than most >> other people. I frequently fail to understand them, because they seem >> immature (e.g. I want unlimited bandwidth to download whatever I want >> including copyrighted material, 0 ms latency for my apps, and I also want >> Cox to give that to me for $10 a month while removing all botnets from >> their network, All information should be free, because I say so, Windows >> users are inferior as human beings, etc) >> >> I would like to gently remind you that you are currently violating Cox's >> TOS (line item 6) by hosting a web server on port 1024. > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
