So your against greater access to broadband?uevjHEYFFQ wrote:
Uh if everyone was able to get their hands on affordable or free broadband wouldn't that mean the death of the music and movie industry since more people would have the ability to download music and movies for free?
I couldn't careless either way. I'm just trying to look at all the angles to this.TheAussieReaper wrote:
So your against greater access to broadband?uevjHEYFFQ wrote:
Uh if everyone was able to get their hands on affordable or free broadband wouldn't that mean the death of the music and movie industry since more people would have the ability to download music and movies for free?
omg.
The movie and music industry is already wrecked. I mean COME ON! Anybody who buys music or movies or software simply because they don't know how to pirate it is a dumbass. I taught my dad how to use a rapidshare acc and warez-bb in like a day. Hell, my fucking grandmother wants to learn how to steal movies. (which wont happen obviously because she has no clue how to work other things but still the point remains)uevjHEYFFQ wrote:
Uh if everyone was able to get their hands on affordable or free broadband wouldn't that mean the death of the music and movie industry since more people would have the ability to download music and movies for free?
My point kinda? If more people get internet and get smarter in it, wont that mean that the music and movie industry which is already wrecked would just die?Mitch wrote:
The movie and music industry is already wrecked. I mean COME ON! Anybody who buys music or movies or software simply because they don't know how to pirate it is a dumbass. I taught my dad how to use a rapidshare acc and warez-bb in like a day. Hell, my fucking grandmother wants to learn how to steal movies. (which wont happen obviously because she has no clue how to work other things but still the point remains)uevjHEYFFQ wrote:
Uh if everyone was able to get their hands on affordable or free broadband wouldn't that mean the death of the music and movie industry since more people would have the ability to download music and movies for free?
Have you considered some of the negatives to limiting broadband? Like standards in education and technology, or just the mind numbing movies hollywood release?uevjHEYFFQ wrote:
My point kinda? If more people get internet and get smarter in it, wont that mean that the music and movie industry which is already wrecked would just die?
Neither actually. Like I said I really don't care either way. I'm just trying to find some other unintended consequences to wider access to broadband.TheAussieReaper wrote:
Have you considered some of the negatives to limiting broadband? Like standards in education and technology, or just the mind numbing movies hollywood release?uevjHEYFFQ wrote:
My point kinda? If more people get internet and get smarter in it, wont that mean that the music and movie industry which is already wrecked would just die?
A decrease in productivity? How has the transferring of gigabytes and terrabytes of information between workers made productivity lower? People are working smarter, not harder.uevjHEYFFQ wrote:
Neither actually. Like I said I really don't care either way. I'm just trying to find some other unintended consequences to wider access to broadband.
Also what about a decrease in productivity and activity in the average American. More people will become hermits staying all day in the internet rather then interacting with other people.
Wrong word to use.TheAussieReaper wrote:
A decrease in productivity? How has the transferring of gigabytes and terrabytes of information between workers made productivity lower? People are working smarter, not harder.uevjHEYFFQ wrote:
Neither actually. Like I said I really don't care either way. I'm just trying to find some other unintended consequences to wider access to broadband.
Also what about a decrease in productivity and activity in the average American. More people will become hermits staying all day in the internet rather then interacting with other people.
And I'd argue that the internet and broadband has caused MORE interaction with other people. Forums, chats, myspace, facebook there's many many social networking sites that help us stay connection with other people.
chants: the greater goodHarmor wrote:
2/3rds of the people who are NOT on broadband want to actually upgrade, so really only 1/3 of the people we'll have to substitized...because that's how Democrats do it (those who can pay, pay more for those who can't or don't want to).
Lol, that is such BS. I can still look up porn and all that stuff. Tho given the Government's plan, there will beMitch wrote:
like whats happened in Australia.
if it actually goes ahead.Mitch wrote:
car-bomb-into-fed-buildingcivil unrest
Eventually they'll realise that the whole scheme is woefully impotent and shut it down, quietly.mcminty wrote:
Hmm, interesting promise..Lol, that is such BS. I can still look up porn and all that stuff. Tho given the Government's plan, there will beMitch wrote:
like whats happened in Australia.if it actually goes ahead.Mitch wrote:
car-bomb-into-fed-buildingcivil unrest
Senator Conroy is such a cunt.
They worked that out 8 years ago.Spark wrote:
Eventually they'll realise that the whole scheme is woefully impotent and shut it down, quietly.mcminty wrote:
Hmm, interesting promise..Lol, that is such BS. I can still look up porn and all that stuff. Tho given the Government's plan, there will beMitch wrote:
like whats happened in Australia.if it actually goes ahead.Mitch wrote:
car-bomb-into-fed-buildingcivil unrest
Senator Conroy is such a cunt.
But they still persistIn 2001, CSIRO was commissioned to examine available ISP-based internet filters, and decided that they did not work.
On 28 July 2008, an ACMA report entitled “Closed Environment Testing of ISP-Level Internet Content Filtering”[30] showed that of the six unnamed ISP-based filters evaluated:
* One filter caused a 22% drop in speed even when it was not performing filtering;
* Only one of the six filters had an acceptable level of performance (a drop of 2% in a laboratory trial), the others causing drops in speed of between 21% and 86%;
* The most accurate filters were often the slowest;
* All filters tested had problems with under-blocking, allowing access to between 2% and 13% of material that they should have blocked; and
* All filters tested had serious problems with over-blocking, wrongly blocking access to between 1.3% and 7.8% of the websites tested.
Wasn't it the World Wide Web? The internet was spawned from that or somat along those lines.liquidat0r wrote:
Off topic: I thought the web was invented by English scientist
Tim Berners Lee developed the hypertext transfer protocol - http - ergo he invented the world wide web. Didn't invent the physical internet though.M.O.A.B wrote:
Wasn't it the World Wide Web? The internet was spawned from that or somat along those lines.liquidat0r wrote:
Off topic: I thought the web was invented by English scientist
here in America they teach us that we invented the internet lolzmax wrote:
@ CERN IN SWITZERLAND!!!!!!liquidat0r wrote:
Off topic: I thought the web was invented by English scientist
Pretty much everyone lays claim to inventing the internet and depending on your definition everyone can be right
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