<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 January 2011 15:24, Andrew Bates <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oscillik@gmail.com">oscillik@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>right now, Simon is being investigated by MI5 due to this very email ;)</p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not really, it's not even my idea! </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It's going to make the early wild west days of the Internet look positively tame.</div></div>