(I have fond memories of using mIRC, at my summer job at the local ISP, blatantly abusing our control of the bandwidth to download a gargantuan file, a copy of a movie that just came out called "The Matrix". Good times.)
high five :D And then the horror when your mother accidentally picks up the phone.
You had to actually wait for the gratification. BTW, Soulseek still exists, and is still awesome. Kids these days.... I bet they don't even organize their media collections!
You might be one of the few people here who properly appreciates the best perk of that aforementioned summer job was it came with a free ISDN line.
More than half a lifetime ago and I (clearly) still want to brag about it. ;-)
Don't forget all the porn that cuts off before the money shot because people downloaded and then shared without noticing or caring that their video was incomplete.
Or so I heard.
Why the blocking injunction rather than going through the usual channels of filing takedown orders against the companies providing hosting for these sites?
This sets a rather nasty precedent. From here on, ISPs can be ordered to block literally anything and the plumbing will already be in place.
Between rolling back Roe v. Wade and now this, things seem to be getting out of hand with the authoritarian government in the USA.
It's a shame we don't have the option to sail across the ocean and found a new country where we can abolish the authoritarian republic, deprivation of human rights, and high taxes without commensurate representation
They’re buying a lot of useless widgets which helps support the lifestyles of a lot of vile people from all social classes, while pumping out incalculable greenhouse gases, spreading dogma, and there are a few a solar farms, cows, prairies, and natural resource extraction sites.
I think we already had (past tense) the solution in federalism. If the federal government only did what the constitution says it does, most of the red state/blue state stuff wouldn't even be an issue at the federal level. Who won the presidential election or which party controls congress would be much less significant. The average person would have little reason to care much one way or the other.
Sadly we broke that a long time ago and Humpty Dumpty isn't going back together again.
The way Roe v Wade is going seems exactly like federalism. If the Supreme Court says it's not their place to rule that way then it'll fall on individual states to protect or ban abortion. And one can imagine some states being for it and some being against it, along political lines
I've been thinking along those lines myself lately - like India and Pakistan partitioning in 1947.
It's not only depressing but it's a tragedy for the country especially at a time when China is on the ascendancy, Russia is becoming more Stalinist like and the world generally is becoming a more dangerous place.
The lack of a common narrative within the US is potentially devastating not only for the US itself but also other Western democracies. This division within the US ought to be of primary concern to US citizens but it doesn't seem so.
I'm not in the US and I can't help feeling that the decline of the US and its world influence is of more concern to people like me than it is for many US citizens.
As I said it's very depressing and many of us on the outside are looking on helplessly knowing that we can do nothing about it.
I'm in the process of shifting from a small regional ISP to a large international ISP ... for 10x the performance at a lower price. This is an argument for not doing that, since the larger organization would be more visible and vulnerable to blanket injunctions.
DRM enforced at an internet level. We look at Russia and think they’re bad, but the rest of the world is just around the corner. Mass surveillance and censorship are easy to achieve once you control access to the undersea cables.
Does this ruling have teeth? It seems like this particular judge thinks she can unilaterally order every ISP in America to act, but does she really have that authority?
If this stands and is enforced, will this be the first time ever in the US that an ISP providing internet access to home subscribers is forced by the government to block something?
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 72.8 ms ] thread(I have fond memories of using mIRC, at my summer job at the local ISP, blatantly abusing our control of the bandwidth to download a gargantuan file, a copy of a movie that just came out called "The Matrix". Good times.)
You had to actually wait for the gratification. BTW, Soulseek still exists, and is still awesome. Kids these days.... I bet they don't even organize their media collections!
You might be one of the few people here who properly appreciates the best perk of that aforementioned summer job was it came with a free ISDN line.
More than half a lifetime ago and I (clearly) still want to brag about it. ;-)
I was never lucky enough to have ISDN... I jumped from 56k to ADSL (after years of waiting because the phone station was too far away from my home)
> Israel.tv, Israeli-tv.com, and Sdarot.tv
Why the blocking injunction rather than going through the usual channels of filing takedown orders against the companies providing hosting for these sites?
This sets a rather nasty precedent. From here on, ISPs can be ordered to block literally anything and the plumbing will already be in place.
Between rolling back Roe v. Wade and now this, things seem to be getting out of hand with the authoritarian government in the USA.
It's a shame we don't have the option to sail across the ocean and found a new country where we can abolish the authoritarian republic, deprivation of human rights, and high taxes without commensurate representation
We grow most of their food, and make most of their technology. What are they contributing besides hate and divisiveness?
Sadly we broke that a long time ago and Humpty Dumpty isn't going back together again.
I've been thinking along those lines myself lately - like India and Pakistan partitioning in 1947.
It's not only depressing but it's a tragedy for the country especially at a time when China is on the ascendancy, Russia is becoming more Stalinist like and the world generally is becoming a more dangerous place.
The lack of a common narrative within the US is potentially devastating not only for the US itself but also other Western democracies. This division within the US ought to be of primary concern to US citizens but it doesn't seem so.
I'm not in the US and I can't help feeling that the decline of the US and its world influence is of more concern to people like me than it is for many US citizens.
As I said it's very depressing and many of us on the outside are looking on helplessly knowing that we can do nothing about it.