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Death of the Internet
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DonS
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Joined: Mar. 1 2007
From: Florida and San Francisco Cali
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 RE: Death of the Internet (in reply to Florian)
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ORIGINAL: Florian
I dont know ...use playboy like the old days ? 
ROFL!!  awesome man.. I too heard about this hmm maybe it might be a good thing actually cause then people won't be wasting so much time on the internet like we ALL are guilty of. I read Vicente's interview from his last album and he said the following: (deflamenco.com)
"Then they’re with their computers, internet…I don’t like that internet thing at all.
I don’t even have a cell phone. That internet thing is a big waste of time, everyone knows everything immediately, there’s no escape. When you think how nice it used to be when they would put a poster up with your face, and everyone would say “Look, Vicente is coming to my town, he’s going to perform”. Now, they have you nailed wherever you go. I don’t like people all over the world knowing where I am at every moment. And when I decided not to have a cell phone, I had my doubts, but I think it’s the best thing in the world. I said “Hey, that’s the end of the cell phone, now I just play guitar”. My studio used to seem like an office, I couldn’t even tune up in peace…it was very stressful."
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Date Jul. 5 2009 14:20:18
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cathulu
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Joined: Dec. 15 2006
From: Vancouver, Canukistan
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RE: Death of the Internet (in reply to ToddK)
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ToddK, don't get me wrong, I care very much about the internet and I think a lot like you do, which I believe I said already about Millenium Act etc. You should write your congressman, for goodness sakes. You are living in the evil empire, do something about it! However, I think that the content you know and love will continue. I wouldn't worry about that yet.
I think what will happen is that commercial content providers will be very careful with how they put material on the internet, like NBC with the Olympics. Even Jason's Flamenco Lessons site is very careful to the point where there are minor irritations to be lived with. Unfortunately that is what content providers aparently need to do to protect their intellectual property.
However, many people share freely i.e. Reuben LOL, and yourself, and their is a lot of stuff that is in the commons without worry about copyright issues. Most of the interesting youtube stuff is provided by guys like us.
And for the bit torrent and emule downloaders, they will never be defeated! They are like wack a mole. Defeat one and two replace it. I think music labels should charge 10 cents a song. Then they would make inroads against downloading. Why does a distribution system like the iTunes charge 99 cents per song, that is almost like a CD price, and it comes lockdowned so you can play it or have it on only one device at a time, is less quality than a wave file, and all that other BS you have to put up with n(although the play restrictions are slowly disappearing thankfully).
The Pirate Bay should move to Palestine or Somalia. Try and shut them down there!
Cheers
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Date Jul. 5 2009 20:48:59
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gato
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RE: Death of the Internet (in reply to ToddK)
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Of course they will have to make the internet saleable, and some of the offerings now include the ablity to download videos thru google chrome, and real player, and may later extend to media sites such as cnn.com, nbc, cbs, etc. EDIT: (Though I am not making any corporate predictions and make no claim what media corps or providers will do now or in the future.) What they are doing is trying to make the internet faster, safer to use and eliminate abuse. Coining the definition 'bandwith hog,' was the term.
I can't tell you the anger I have when a website is slow for all of the people tying up the traffic. So on the one hand you may be able to shop for your content and download it one time, you won't be able to share it. And we must admit the bandwidth traffic is a mess. Content sharing, well.....
So out of the normal capacity of society to try and improve something, ultimately brings about change, which people ultimately dread. Try to look at it this way, if they are talking about one particular thing which is moderating access, they are not yet in competition for your buisness which ultimately means they have to improve the situation to make it worth your hard earned money. Which means improvements in safe and legal accesibility to things that we will want. Unless you're a hog!!! My 2 cts
Gary
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Date Jul. 10 2009 15:23:42
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