[Liverpool] A free internet

[Sebastian]

On 01/08/2011 04:03 PM, Simon Johnson wrote:
> On 8 January 2011 15:24, Andrew Bates <oscillik at gmail.com
> <mailto:oscillik at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     right now, Simon is being investigated by MI5 due to this very email ;)
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> Not really, it's not even my idea!
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> But the basic mechanics of what is going on is leading to this sort of
> thing. Give it five years and a Napster equivalent will be operating by
> this store and forward principal using Bluetooth or some sort of Wifi
> mesh network. There's nothing that can be done to stop it and the
> government is too slow to realise what's happening.
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> That network is going to be impossible to regulate or control. It's
> going to be ad hoc, even changing, unmanaged by anyone and always there.
> It's a network of equal devices with routers replaced with people going
> about their daily business.
>
> It's going to make the early wild west days of the Internet look
> positively tame.

Oh yeah baby - I was asleep all the way to "early days of wild west". 
But you got me with that one :D

Sebastian

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