I swear that me and my friends (all lawyers) will sue them one day. and “Bezeq”. – stupid IsraEli(te)s ISPs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezeq
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/012_%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9C

bit-torrent (free speech) + truth (atheism) = RULE!!!

love and peace (and, maybe, hope — if at all?) from Israel.

I think it would be more precise to call it privilege, not a right.
Right is something that is considered inherently tied to a person, and irrevocable, such as right to life, right to free speech,… Please not that you cannot relinquish, nor contract away a right (for example by selling it), such contract would be illegal. This is not the case of copy”right”.

Copy”right” is not a right in this sense, because it allows one human to restrict the activity of another. So, it is not something necessary for society, it is just a policy to encourage creation, nothing more.

Copying is not theft. Theft is about physical stuff and can’t apply to the virtual, where nothing moves, nothing changes hands. If you copy a song, your HD doesn’t get heavier, what did you steal?

Illegal copying is a rights violation. You are violating the rights-owner’s ability to control distribution. This is not theft. You don’t steal rights, you infringe them. Saying this is theft, over and over and over and over and over and over again won’t make it so. If you’re going to attack the pirates, at least get your accusations straight. At least, that way, you’ll understand the counter-arguments.

As for this bittorrent throttling thing, it’s just plain sad. If they make is too bad then people will just start encrypting the traffic or hiding it in other traffic. Eventually, we’ll just bypass the ISPs entirely and start setting up our own wireless ad-hock P2P. You can’t stop the future… maybe slow it down a little, but not stop. ‘Aint it nice when our tech companies are the ones trying to stop progress; the sooner we get rid of them, the better.

http://keliso.com

Well said. I’m familiar with that angle and wish others were before wading into the subject.

“For those who are too lazy to read…”

They would do well to do their research, homework.
It’s not like they don’t have the world’s greatest library at their fingertips.
The net is much more than torrents. ;)

For those who are too lazy to read, basically, it says that property is just a civilized solution to the problem of scarcity (that actually works, unlike communism) – since tangible things are scarce, they have to be divided someway, and private property is currently the best known way of dividing them.

Therefore, intellectual property is an oxymoron, because thoughts are not scarce. I can think the same thought as you without me diminishing yours, i can use the same idea as you do to my benefit, without taking away yours. This means that anyone advocating intellectual property laws is basically advocating creating artificial scarcity where none naturally exists by the way of granting state enforced monopoly. Is it such a surprise that people with common sense are fighting against monetizing thoughts?

As for copyright, if it would be used as originally intended, that is short time of monopoly to provide incentive for creation, followed by putting the work into public domain to benefit everyone in the society, i doubt there would be many opposing it. But the corporate mafiaa bribed our “representatives” to make laws which benefit privileged few instead of the society as a whole.

Yeah, I totally agree with you.

Its too late to do anything now. People at BitTorrent Inc. are just wasting their time.