US ISPs become 'copyright cops' starting July 12

[Joel Rees]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
> Am 17.03.2012 22:30, schrieb Jim:
>> On 03/17/2012 01:24 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 17.03.2012 14:34, schrieb Jim:
>>>> I know this may not be the place for this post, but when it comes to software, how are these ISP's going to treat
>>>> Open Source Softwre ?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/17/us-isps-become-copyright-cops-starting-july-12/?intcmp=features
>>> what exactly let you imagine taht this has ANYTHING to do with OpenSource?

What exactly does anyone think this has not to do with open source?

Freedom is freedom.

>> When it comes to downloading how do they know the difference between OSS and a copy of MS software.
>> That is what concerns me.
>
> jesus christ

Are you praying? If not, to what purpose do you invoke this name?

> and when it comes to play a self-made video or big images
> are ona webpage so someone thinks it could be a download
> leads also to a problem?

You like deep inspection of your packets?

> what me really scares are people like you which really believe
> there is sitting the whole day someone analyzing each transfer
> and blocking randomly things

Perhaps it scares you so much to think of such things that you ignore
the daily news?

NSA anyone?

To non-geeks, software is about what happens in the mind, and there
are definitely plenty of people who are silly enough to want to
control what's happening in your mind. That they are silly does not
make them any less dangerous when the governments of the various
countries are giving their efforts a listening ear.

If you want to be able to use a free-as-in-freedom OS ten years down
the road, this kind of stuff is relevant. Sure, long discussions here
are kind of off-topic, but the heads-up is not.

(And those who complained about the post being OT are the ones who
dragged the list into the discussion, if you ask me.)

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Joel Rees