Gnutella Up Next?

The measurements we see today against the new development called internet and opensource software are mostly acts of people who grew up without the posibilities of internet and people who are influenced by them. In a few generations people will get used to internet-freedom and those who use it now will control the world. For them there will be other new developments they oppose and will try to stop, until again a new generation takes over.

Think about this nightmare scenario of a corporate-government controlled IT world:

In the future, your packets are not allowed to "drive" on the "information superhighway," without a government approved license/passport. Each switch/router/etc becomes a "checkpoint." The regulation starts in the United States, then via "we're scared shitless" treaty, most of the rest of the world follows in suit. From the hardware makers like Cisco, down to the lowly selfcoded firewall, compliance is mandatory; restriction must be hardcoded. Any "open source" violation, even though easy detectable on the NewNet, is severely punished.

Oh, and if you try to encapsulate "illegal information" within your government-approved encrypted packets (the only packets allowed to pass a checkpoint), no matter how clever you think you were, you're easily caught by heuristics, "pulled over to the side of the road" by the "cybercops," and "sniffed," and jailed.

(Please poke holes in this scenario... I beg of you! :)

someone oughta sue al gore for creating the internet!!
napster song of the day related to this subject:
nofx - dinosaurs will die
cool song, cool meaning :)

man it's late

Check out what a Sony VP just said:

"Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this," Heckler told the Summer Forty-Niner. "We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source -- we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [Internet-service provider]. We will firewall it at your PC.

http://www.uwiretoday.com/computing081700001.html

Heheh, what a dope.

do i give 2 fucks about AOL?

no

yeah but i still dont care as like as they cant touch gnutella, and they cant, because the source is out there

Suing the "guy" who invented the FTP protocol may be too complicated.

Here's something more interesting, sue the maker IRC. "chat" my ass. Heck, not only software companies can sue, the web porn industry will be able to sue them as well.

I need space dam-it ,space I say,give me some space ,hey buddy can you spare some space to a guy down on his luck?" No ",didn't think so.

Sue gnutella through AOL? They have too much time in their hand. I do something else with mine... oh I know what you are doing with yours... there is a camera under your desk :)

gnutella is

a: open source
b: there are no servers, when you are on gnutella you ARE your server
c: like piss in a pool

are they going to drain the whole internet?
doubtful
and if they get rid of gnutella i GUARANTEE something else will come out
...why?

*gasp!*
its open source!!

*riverdances on the government*

I do not think AOL can be blamed for gnutella.. what a bunch of BS.

I love Nutella! um or are you talking about some other thing?! :p

I'm going to sue WS-FTP because they make an ftp client which makes people priate

Bahahahahhahhahahaha, down with AOL! :)

FrO

this is doofy

damn, this k-meleon browser is cool

so is k-meleon everything that mozilla should have been by now?

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