The "NWO" Is Crumbling... (Score 2)

No one seems to be mention a few basic common sense observations of this whole thing.

1) The latest "New World Order" (NWO was originally coined 50 plus years ago) is collapsing at a geometric rate, at least in terms of control over information and "intellectual property".

2) The legal system (like the political system) is pathalogically controlled by big business.

3) Control over information when it has already passed into the realm of electrons is rather futile. "Hey Bob, here's a new protocol that will solve this problem." "Frank, let's see if we can tunnel this in that." "Hey Jim, fuck them, we'll reinvent the system from scratch." BUT, this doesn't mean the existing empire won't execute a few heretics before Rome burns.

4) Until, "Soviet-style" tactics are capable of being enforced everywhere simultaneously (which ofcourse, they never will), human beings are going to generally do what they feel is morally and ethically sanctioned. (Pass the pliers, I think I've got a tooth-ache)

5) Most people feel that music is more "art" than "commodity" and therefore sharing art with ones fellow human beings is morally acceptable, even more so when it is easily accomplished, technically speaking. (Rip the Mona Lisa in two and send me a piece when you get a chance) Some people even believe that software is more "art" than "commodity", god forbid!

6) Since when does Meta11ica deserve this much free publicity, they've been crap since I was in highschool (a long time ago). Ratbastard$. Hypocrite$.

7) Given that the powerful corporations that have money and influence will continue to try to put a plug in all the holes in this stuck pig, we better brace ourselves for more and more 1984-style attempts at conforming the behaviour of the average technologically adept human being into a moral and ethical mold set out by organizations like the RI@@ and MP@@.

Their viewpoints as echoed by the emerging legal arguments seem to me to be more like:

"Attention Citizens, anything less than you shoving your hard earned cash down our corporate throats is now punishable by death."

You'd all be buying this crappy music if we could outlaw Radio, Internet, Tapes, CDRWs, cover bands and humming, you know you would. So stop stealing from us. You're killing pre-copulation babies!

8) Prepare for the Int3l white paper(s) to come true and for attempts at $Corporate$America$-sanctioned IP rights-controlling CPU and hardware to become the standard (adopted through the backdoor ofcourse).

9) I guess the average commercial software houses out there (read N@pster) haven't figured out what the Internet is all about. Single point of failures are exactly that.

And the most important point of all. All those people out there who are up in arms about this MP3/D3CSS/N@pster issue but who are not contributing actively to the Free Software Movement are helping seal their own fates. We all need to fight together to keep software and hardware doing what we want it to do, whether or not $Corporate$America$ feels that it is "right".

Those bastards developing are probably the same corporate bastard$ that are going to restrict your freedoms first, not last.

And you can never be quite sure if those Open$ource friends of yours might be interested in selling out provided the technological solution to our (their) own demise is elegance, efficient and well coded.

Okay, so maybe that was more than a few simple observations. You get what you pay for...

PS. It's much more effective if the sheep have internalized the fox's belief system and feel that the external coercion is in fact their own belief system. In the best case, they'll slaughter themselves. In the worst case, they'll probably just bitch about it on Slashdot.