Comcast will not stop, not until people get outraged enough to get a REAL suit against them. (We are talking major money here, like a subscriber wide class action suit). Or the FCC stops being a sissy slap hand legislative limp dick. Yeah sure they will go after you if you broadcast a micro TV station in rural BFE, but when it comes to the money makers, nothing will ever happen.

People need to stop beating around the bush and unite against the corrupt legislators and the company’s that only look out for money for there investors and CEO’s and not there customers. (Think back how it was 50 years ago. You gave bad service you went out of business.)

Nuff said.

still inactive and full of pr0n spam

I guess 4chan has lead to a bad name among all possible *chans. But no, I designed my board to be for useful discussion.

“We need public awareness and education, and links to informational sites posted on pro-piracy torrent index sites.”

That’s what I think the biggest problem is. The RIAA etc. spend so much money on “educating the public,” and in school, kids learn that “piracy is bad.” If there was some way the schools could change, and teach the opposite.

Seriously, is four paragraphs a wall of text? You would think adding more than a sentence or two would help to both clarify your opinion and decrease redundancy. Anyway, to summarize my opinion in a more familiar and “easy” format.

We need public awareness and education, and links to informational sites posted on pro-piracy torrent index sites.

..Plus, chan boards were designed as imageboards, not conversation tools. So using one for conversation does indeed make it look like you’re just trying to spy and don’t fully understand the medium you’re using.

This might just be a distraction technique — thoughts?

Or am I relying on too-simple thinking and bad facts?

thats the dumbest shit ever,

you wanna see the world expand and our civilization grow? then information should be freely and openly shared and copied, it is by very definition the meaning of the internet, let its vast resources grow to include all ideas and information in the world.

Greedy ass money grubbing bastards, the world will never change.

JT
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com

“So it’s OK to prioritize VoIP. That means it’s OK to de-prioritize everything that’s not VoIP, and the only way you can determine which is which is by inspecting packets to see what protocol carries them. But the Commission says you can’t do that…”

They are criminalizing normal network management practices. We’ll all suffer because they won’t be able to deal with bottlenecks.

I think your a bit mistaken with the EFF not encouraging grassroots movements. In fact, I’m sent letters all the time from the EFF with pre-written letters that can be Emailed directly to me senator/congressman. However, I think your right, to many people are unaware of this issue.

But it goes a little bit deeper than selfishness. My mother worked for a state funded school in which she taught high school dropouts basic computer skills. You would be absolutely astonished at how many people (Yes, especially the younger generations) that can use the basic functions of myspace but have absolutely no idea of how to email a letter to someone.

Education is a contributing factor to the lack of public awareness and an abundance of unconstitutional legislation. I’ve always though it would be a great idea if there was a website that explained the issues to these people in laymens terms. Breaking down what an ISP is, what a torrent is, how piracy is important to culture, and how it is a more effective business platform.

I think torrentfreak and other like-minded websites need to start promoting there URL’s on places like the Pirate bay, ISOhunt, Mininova and other sites. Most people that visit those sites don’t understand the issues, they just want to watch a new release. Education on the issues and a breakdown of the technical aspects of piracy need to be explained in such a way that everyone can understand.

However what is in it for them.

I agree though that the law needs to be changed.

Highlighting the issue will help.

Also just getting round it using encrypted anonymous BT type clients helps.

Ez
http://www.Dargens.com
Encrpted Anon BT

My suggestion.. and critical oppinions are welcome…

is that you should look at heading up a new pirate survey, look at the demographics behind who is downloading right now and then use that as firstly your own evidence and secondly your way to target minority age groups etc. This information could help all pirate organisations in my eyes.

If you want me to contact you by email on the idea I will, but only on requests.

Perhaps I came off as arrogant in demanding that others do things, but perhaps just that I am just frustrated at seeing nothing really happening.

But simply put, calling out to others to take action is the first step towards doing something. After all, change never comes forth without its supporters.

Nice try using a chan to “connect with the kids”

people can see right through you. I’m going to make sure your supervisor doesn’t pay you overtime for this.

It very well might simply fail completely. There’s a big chance of that. Luckily, there is also a chance that your efforts could bring some results if you can convince the file sharing masses of the importance of such things; if it does succeed, you’ll be appreciated.

And if it doesn’t work? The people involved will at least be able to say they tried, which does mean something.

“No, quietly mind your own business and everything will be fine”

or

“It will be ineffective, politicians are corrupt”

or

“Laws are not a problem, we just need to develop a way to file-share without being caught”

or

“The laws will naturally go away over time, don’t worry about it”

or

“Activism will turn public opinion against us, so it’s useless”

Perhaps they are spies from the industry, or something, but I think the attitude is completely wrong. Laws are the way they are because people don’t act, not because the RIAA or MPAA has so much money.

I think that the formation of discussion and community is a powerful thing to get people to act, which is why I am posting the link to my discussion board http://www.28chan.org/fs/ so that people can get together as a discussion community.

I think that most people are not capable of acting by themselves, which is why the community is so important to let people know that there is something to support. The EFF is certainly not among those which encourage people-action and community. I prefer the pirate party, but it’s too small and it seems to be a partially abandoned project in the U.S.

And besides, this development of EFF developing a tool would be much better news if, instead of a few people at the EFF, it was the collaborative work of ordinary citizens. Ordinary citizens should be the ones making change.

But in any case, I can also expect people at least to form groups. An e-mail group at least would be fine – I mean, at least establishing contact and exchanging ideas on what to do, and things like that, would be very good. I have an e-mail I can give out here for this purpose – aworldwithoutsnowflakes@gmail.com – and I think people should do more to form communities so that people can somewhat swear allegiance take action.

Yeah, that’s sadly totally right… most people also don’t want to join their local pirate party or anything, which might be able to change and prevent local problems… like look at the swedish one, it’s larger than the in-parlament green party!?

Not everyone is only concerned about themselves while file sharing, but sadly many, too many are…

I think it will happen. But it will be a long road. Who knows, maybe it will come off naturally, hopefully.

“rapacious commercialism”

hehe, sounds like you belong here:

http://www.wsws.org

check it out, if you haven’t already.

Laws do need amending of course in favour of free culture, but will that ever happen when it’s built on supporting rapacious commercialism?

Izumi-sensei, you are correct, but the industrial dross is thick today.

Laws do need amending of course in favour of free culture, but will that ever happen when it’s built on supporting rapacious commercialism?

Such trends such as the throttling of bittorrent traffic, ACTA, the gestapo surveillance of Youtube, and so on will continue until people start to act.