There is an article on Slashdot which suggests that the EU (upon which, etc. etc.) is up to no good in some way about the internet.
It refers to this, which is, frankly, no more comprehensible.
Strategically there is only one solution: Britain must leave the EU.
Tactically, though, this might be important, but I’m damned if I can understand what it’s all supposed to be about.
Intuitively I would automatically suppose that anything the EU wants to do to us, our computers or the things which link them up is necessarily bad.
Would someone who speaks Eurobollocks fluently be so good as to let me know whether this is something about which Something Must Be Done?
I googled “three strikes EU” and got this:
http://torrentfreak.com/eu-rejects-3-strikes-for-file-sharers-090327/
And this:-
http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-europe-agrees-telecoms-reform-but-three-strikes-still-undecided
It’s obviously about whether they will allow “p2p file sharing” among really highly ethnic “mediterranean-speaking” peoples who wave guns about if challenged (they obviously come from “Greek Street” in Soho) or whether to actually not allow it among much less ethnic “eastern-atlantic-speaking” peoples who have high exposure to the risk of loss of broadband privileges, and who also pay handsomely for these.
The highly-ethnic types will of course be totally unencumbered by health-and-safety, and will simply hook up their new connections via the nearest 3-phase 440v/11Kv lekky-lines.
I don’t think the 50Hz stuff will bother them much at RF
Hmm. I’d be inclined to let ‘em ban P2P is they want to. By the time they’ve finished messing about and troughing some geek will have invented something better anyway, which they’ve never heard of.
Of course, said geek would be well advised to leave the old system running, to give the enemy something to jam [Jones: Most secret war, passim].
Banning p2p may have unintended consequences for all of us. It isn’t just the torrentz that use p2p technology .. .. .. MSN and other messenger clients also allow the transfer of files between two users and I frequently get printing requests sent to me in this way by my daughter.
While there is obviously the proliferation of illegal filesharing as an issue to tackle with p2p the other consideration is that it can’t be regulated and spied on in the way that email communications can .
Quite honestly if it inconveniences Micro$oft in any way then I’m probably all for it.
Lots of highly legitimate purposes are served by P2P and a panic-stricken government ban on it could only increase the percentage by which they lose the next election. If nothing else, it would reveal the extent to which they are in the pockets of the Hollywood greedheads, upon whom they rely to provide ‘circuses’.