Comments on: Doctorow’s Omen Shows Why We Need To Ban DRM

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Doctorow’s Omen Shows Why We Need To Ban DRM « Simni — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:54:09 +0000

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By: John Gaspardo

John Gaspardo — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:36:00 +0000

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By: John Gaspardo

John Gaspardo — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:55:00 +0000

@ robert
I need a reality check? seriously read some history and you’ll see that it’s not that far fetched. everything I said is factually correct. PS since telling me to get a reality check is your first ever comment i’ll put you down to be a troll just creating accounts to change the conversation. If we don’t do something that distopian(spell check sucks) future will be reality

By: Mwhahaha

Mwhahaha — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:43:00 +0000

Cos there’s no one out there at all intent on reshaping our internet, oh no. I didn’t claim it was going to happen soon or be completed soon, but that is where we’ll end up. Not sure honestly how much bullshit you’re spouting as how I see it, you only need dedicated server space for your own data/browsing/programs. All these things are being offered already. Google docs, drop box, steam for instance. It’s really not that great a reach to suppose it will reverse.

Now a days I can have music available on an account on line, I can store my photos, I can write a spread sheet and I can play (and save) games, regardless of what computer I am on. If my ISP was set up to only visit those particular places which I’d paid to use the services of, then I’m shackled. ISP’s blocking other sites on the demands of 3rd parties? What… no, never… oh wait… they have been for YEARS.

Also your point about admin’s is unthought-out, in a closed system as the one I was outlining, there is no need for much policing. Nothing gets in, nothing gets out. Other than outside attacks to deal with, there’d be no real issue. I think you’re not seeing exactly how locked down companies would love the internet to be. Imagine a system where nothing is free, where nothing can be added that you haven’t paid for.

It’s all a lil dystopian, and quite unlikely, but it really is being thought of out there somewhere I’d imagine :(

By: Rata

Rata — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:39:00 +0000

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By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:14:00 +0000

I think you need a reality check…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:24:00 +0000

A very timely question that I have spent lots of time thinking about. The easiet is to view companies as raving sociopaths. As they are not humans (theyre just pieces of paper), they have no morals, no values, no superego if you will. Sure, they are staffed by humans, but in the aggregate values are eliminated by separation of responsibility through ownership of shares in stock portfolios, etc.

It is the law – constructed by politicians enabled by a political system – that created these monsters. Whatever evilness they do, we created them. Theyre our (previous and current voters) creation, our problem. They would not be a problem if we just changed the law and stripped companies of the rights of people, the ability to influence politics, the ability to externalise costs, monopoly and cartel powers etc.

To do that, our current representative democracy is poorly suited for the task. We need a new system, one which I doubt will emerge from the current one. We need a move towards direct democracy, although not all the way. I have a theory I called “Distributed Democracy” which is something in between representative and direct democracy, with full transparancy and accountability – and distribution of power at the core.

The core of the problem is systemic failure, caused by a disenfranchized, apathic people. A failure of imagination, civic participation and perhaps concentration of media. I don’t quite know why. Maybe the voters have been too well off for too long, and as long as the trains keep running why would they care?

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By: John Gaspardo

John Gaspardo — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:04:00 +0000

ron paul is making the most sense at this point making him the only viable candidate seeing as obama is hell bent on destroying the bill of rights and letting the oil and gas industry frack away even though it has been linked to earthquakes and mass water and air pollution thanks to exemptions to the clean air water etc acts. and then i see ads from bp and chevron telling me they care! yeah right bp had the ceo that was inconvenienced by the gulf oil spill and had the balls or stupidity to say it publicly and then you have Chevron who basically fuc%ed Bolivia when they used a process banned in 1930 in the us because it is so damaging to save 3 dollars a barrel. these people run known toxic chemicals into the environment to save a couple million and they did this in like 2007. You can count on big business with the help of the government crooks like obama to exempt themselves from regulation get billions in taxpayer subsides and pollute 1890′s style(aka no regulation just dump it in the river) unopposed all well telling us that they care about the community. corporations wheather they be gas and oil or copyrights trolls will always take the route to cheap money with the help of the government lackeys. until they ban corporate money from elections the us and the entire world are at the mercy of these bastards. don’t just vote go protest and get shot with rubber bullets

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