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kronas
03-09-2003, 17:53
the US government is considering new ways to tackle the growing issue of cyber attacks whether they be viruses or ddos attacks by simply fineing software compaines who fail to produce adequatly secure software obviously microsoft would be in the fireing line

http://www.iht.com/articles/108522.html

so my question is will it be a matter of time before regulation of the internet might be introduced ?

you could argue that the net is so big that regulation would/maybe be impossible

but if regulation of the net was indeed to become a reality it would loose what is one of the best qualities of the net the freedom it gives........
Shaun
03-09-2003, 17:58
K, the US want to gag everyone, see here:

http://www.nthellworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=47361#post47361

So much for being the land of the free.:rolleyes:
kronas
03-09-2003, 17:59
Originally posted by dellwear
K, the US want to gag everyone, see here:

http://www.nthellworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=47361#post47361

So much for being the land of the free.:rolleyes:

yep saw that a few days ago not been round really.........
zoombini
04-09-2003, 10:14
IT will never happen.

Uncle Bill will stifle it in so many law suits that it would take a millenium to sort it out.
deadite66
04-09-2003, 10:30
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
MadGamer
05-09-2003, 20:29
Intresting, ive just replied to a simalier thread entitled "Microsoft loses browser court case".
El Diablo
10-09-2003, 00:43
Originally posted by kronas

so my question is will it be a matter of time before regulation of the internet might be introduced ?

Good point... well, you're halfway there, but it'll never happen in the kinda way that people think it may... The Internet is already 'regulated', as such, (l)users just don't see it... It can never be fully regulated, since that would involve some form of evaluation process before anything could be published on the web... however, it can become a better place by stamping out the abusers of the system...

Now, whilst file swapping, as in music / dvd / software etc may become the killer application for the interweb, a virtual existence will never replace a physical object available in the highstreet - Ironically, file sharing will never be stopped, the whole existence of the Internet is based upon file sharing, simple as that - you couldn't read this text now if your terminal wasn't capable of file sharing with some other non-descript machine out in cyberspace. The whole essence of all protocols that standardise the way in which such systems integrate, immediately dictate the possibility for compromise in a new, discrete manner - until all is revealed and targeted once more... and around we go again....

Internet Service Providers spend many an hour playing piggy in the middle. They want to provide connectivity at affordable prices, but ever increasing demand for the transfer of, effectively illegal, copies of songware or software both increases their demand for capacity, as well as their liability for prosecution from the copyright owners.

Once such pressure is applied, you may find your ISP more likely to filter your traffic, some maybe even having specific restrictions to allow just http / smtp / pop3 traffic flow between their users, which to be fair, would accommodate the majority of (l)users in an appropriate fashion.

It's a learning curve, it's taken more than 30 years of hard work to get where the Internet is today. To me it seems that it will take the rest of the industrial sectors even longer to catch up and utilise this resource to its full extent. It's not going away, the masses just need to be educated in how to turn this resource into their own, individual, advantage.

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Defiant
10-09-2003, 01:10
Microsoft has already threatened once to move its head office to Canada and I'd imagine if they done this they would and others too