I’d like to see you walk into a school and commit mass murder with a kitchen knife, dipsh*t.

Nothing is free and even if you pay for it you still don’t know if you are safe or if your anonymity is compromised

..what a nice world we live in

Establishing and maintaining a monopoly by crushing any competing technology with their wallets.People generally go out of business when they fail to deliver their goods in an acceptable way, but there’s no such hassle in a monopoly situation.

Lobbying and buying legislation that supports their cause including but not limited to outright censorship as well spying and intelligence gathering on a level that would require a warrant for law enforcement.

I’ll stop there for now.

The main point here is that they’ve been doing this INSTEAD of offering decent services at reasonable prices. Just recently have we gotten things like Netflix, spotify and so on. The reason people don’t know if something is legal or not is because there haven’t been any legal services before now!

There’s no room for sympathy when these people have exploited everyone cynically for as long as they were able to and then show up to cry about pirates when they can’t keep up through their machiavellian business practices.

It’s coming. the pieces are already there, just need someone to fit them together. Find a way to merge the encryption of bitcoin with the media sourcing of bittorrent and we’re done. And if I had to take a guess, I’d say that Tribler will be the ones to deliver it, eventually.

For now, they can disconnect you if they want and there’s little you can do about it. To prevent this, we all should be running over VPNs.

I really wish we would have a viable high-traffic anonymous, encrypted P2P and then our problems here would be over.

Well, maybe.

Let’s not forget that now internet access is considered to be a human right under the United Nations.

Additionally, certainly an ISP has the right to refuse service. But what about when they’re the only game in town? What about when they’re forcing six strike programs upon their users, and there’s no alternative to vote with your dollars? I might suggest then that the ISPs, through collusion with other ISPs and the MAFIAA through the CCI, could be seen to be engaging in anticompetitive practices. And denying the citizens under said United Nations their human rights, through internet access, simply because the content holders “gots to get paid”. Seems then that a human right wins out over an optional monopoly privilege.