Who could have thunk, that a college kid sitting in his dorm, that
had an idea of how to share music, would have let to this? Because
in reality that is what has happened, the movie and entertainment
industry seeing what has happened to the music industry (which is
still debatable, crappy C
I realized the same thing this morning, David. The sad thing is that
if the Internet ever crashed, I would lose contact with every single
one of you and I would have to use telephone operators to try to find
your phone numbers. I consider some of my fellow videobloggers to be
really good frien
No Andreas, I'm afraid you and Josh Leo are confusing this with the
OTHER threat going on right now. This thread is with regards to the
United Nations (NOT the US Senate).
Link to article (again) for those of you who haven't read it yet:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/02/un_cooking_podca
I heartfully agree, Josh. Unfortunately, this is no longer on a
national level, so it may be more difficult to have our voices heard.
I have, however, found the site with the contact details of all
Delegations/Missions to the organization at the following link:
http://www.wipo.int/members/en/
Here is the full text of the e-mail I sent, in case any of you feel
like copying/editing it to send to their own national representative:
---
Dear Sir/Madam,
I wish to inform you that I disapprove of the inclusion of Webcasting
and DRM in the Broadcast Treaty currently under debate in the UN'
Thanks, David... I work for a UN organization, so I know the
appropriate lingo (I type letters on behalf of my boss, a Japanese
Diplomat, on a daily basis!)
Casey
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "David Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Good letter Casey!
>
> ... so many battles ...
CNN did a story about this late last year. The State Department
doesn't release official figures, and some critics have suggested this
is because they don't keep accurate records and it's a national
security problem. Meanwhile, public surveys have ranged from anywhere
from five percent to more t
This is interesting. I've thought about this ... effectively daisy-
chaining WiFi to create an alternative internet. We all download and
run little applications that make our WiFi cards seek out and link to
the nearest WiFi networks running the same little applications ...
with gateways to th
Yikes, even if this crappy idea goes through it is not like they are closing the internet... we would still be able to email eachother... even if it would feature tons of ads and crap like that.I signed the petition, i am against this bill/whatever, but it's not like it is a comet hitting the ea
On Wed, 03 May 2006 20:38:25 +0200, Josh Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yikes, even if this crappy idea goes through it is not like they are
> closing
> the internet... we would still be able to email eachother... even if it
> would feature tons of ads and crap like that.
Just to point out
you're right, josh.it's not like a comet hitting the earth. it's like a muzzle.citizen journalists would be silenced. no more inconvenient news would leak. musicians who are making their own music videos and record labels via the net would no longer have that option. it would be the major labels
hi andreas. that's not exactly true. it is a problem we will all deal with. not just the u.s.we are already fighting similar ideas sneaking into our country (canada). and companies have long ago stopped being associated with any one country.
On 5/3/06, Andreas Haugstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
my bad, wrong thread... but we would still be able to send emails i believe either way...On 5/3/06, Anne Walk <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi andreas. that's not exactly true. it is a problem we will all deal with. not just the u.s.we are already fighting similar ideas sneaking into our country
i like this line from the boingboing article you posted, casey:
The forest of hundreds of startups gets burned to the ground, and only
a few old trees like Yahoo and Microsoft are left standing.it's funny because i just received an alert in my mail that microsoft is in negotiations to buy a huge
oops. i was thinking about net neutrality as well. of course, it's all one and same as far as agenda goes.On 5/3/06, Casey McKinnon <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:No Andreas, I'm afraid you and Josh Leo are confusing this with the
OTHER threat going on right now. This thread is with regards to theU
We may still be able to send email ... but if that's all we can do without paying a premium charge or per KB or something ... then its not like a comet hitting the Earth its like a comet hitting the Internet ... it'll be dead and gone.
Sure the Net Neutrality issue is in the US congress right no
On Wed, 03 May 2006 22:05:03 +0200, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Sure the Net Neutrality issue is in the US congress right now Andreas,
> but
> you are fooling yourself if you think that wont effect your experience.
> Any
> network traffic that traverses the backbone of a US
Nice, I may have to steal that for my own letter. Thanks.On 5/3/06, Casey McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here is the full text of the e-mail I sent, in case any of you feel
like copying/editing it to send to their own national representative:
---
Dear Sir/Madam,
I wish to inform you t
Hello,I can't find where I read this (or else I'd credit the author), but when trying to talk to these kind of people, e-mails don't work. They're too easily delete.(Snail) mail works better. But what's best is to call them.
When calling them, be polite but be firm about your concerns. Get th
Well, when the U.S. effectively shuts down the Internet, in China they
will still have it; you just won't be able to say or search everything
you want. Is something better than nothing?
China? I've made plans for the day when China takes over the U.S. Got
me a job lined up as a shoe shiner
On 5/3/06, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I mean lets talk nightmare scenerio for a sec: What if political ideas contrary to the (theoretical) US administration
were suddenly never heard by the masses because huge amounts of money from lobbyists
allows for those ideas to get squashed?
On 5/6/06, Deirdre Straughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/3/06, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
NB: I agree
with the principle of net neutrality, I just don't see it as a panacea
to the world's problems, and it can be hard to get people to listen to
your arguments if you fill them w
I just cant let this one go ... you've hit a nerve ... not that is has any relevance what so ever to the issue. really ...
Firstly, your statement that 15% of Americans had passports is a bit
dated? According to survey last year the number is more like 34%
(http://www.canadatourism.com/ctx/file
On Sat, 06 May 2006 22:32:35 +0200, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> And 3rdly, what Americans DO or do NOT know ... should not be judged by
> tidbits edited together for the greatest effect by some TV show trying to
> sell a point.
For the record: Actual studies have been made (see
On 5/6/06, Andreas Haugstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FYI: Deirdre is an American. :o)
That doesnt make her numbers on passport holders - or implication that
the number is caused by disinterest in the world any more valid ...
clearly by the study you pointed to it simply makes her a less relia
On 5/6/06, David Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just cant let this one go ... you've hit a nerve ... not that is has any relevance what so ever to the issue. really ...
Firstly, your statement that 15% of Americans had passports is a bit
dated? According to survey last year the number is
For the record, I get very angry with America's shortcomings precisely
because it IS, in some sense, "my" country. I was born there, I
maintain citizenship and pay taxes. But I've lived in many other
places.
I know firsthand that there is ignorance and poverty all over the
world, including Amer
On 5/7/06, Deirdre Straughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But let's not kidourselves that a neutral net will save the world. I never said net neutrality would save the world, I said it would limit our means to continue to try and speak out and educate that world.
I never said it would sif american
Hello,It's already been done. (Although it's not ubiquitous yet.)This page has a link to a bunch of them...http://freenetworks.org/
Someday these we'll hopefully become one network of networks.See yaOn 5/7/06, wazman_au <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:This is interesting. I've thought about this ...
Looks as if the news is good (so far) on WIPO:Webcasting Gets a Reprieve
International treaty provisions that would prevent the retransmission of media over the Web have been dropped -- for now.
By Wade Roush
If
proposed rules preventing the digital retransmission of TV, radio, or
c
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