TheDougem
2012-01-19 06:17:12
Don’t forget another critical thing – this is the same industry sector that so badly wants to be what cable companies are to television. They’d much rather see the internet in the hands of only middlemen – ie, them. They would decide what content goes or doesn’t, what sites of theirs you’re privileged to see based on what fee you pay, oh, and they would very much like to charge you based on bandwidth.
Empowering them as the ‘guardians’ of the internet in order to ‘protect’ us all from piracy would be a first step on that path.
