Arts+Labs — Net garbage collectors
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Just as the attack on filesharing by Congress seems to have lost steam, along comes a corporate agenda under the guise of cleaning the filthy internet — as if it needed any cleaning.
Although the Net belongs to no one entity, a group called Arts+Labs has taken on the noble role of ridding the internet of all the nasty bandwidth choking spam, malware, viruses and “illegal” file trafficking.
Many have failed before it, but Arts+Labs is confident it has the solution to what plagues us online
Backed by the likes of RIAA/MPAA loving industries/members such as AT&T, Viacom, NBC Universal, Cisco, and Microsoft, they claim to have our best interests at heart saying this “net pollution”, as they call it, is degrading our networks, even though recent media reports show the Internet backbone itself is only taxed at about 20% at the most.
Never mind these pesky details, though. Arts+Labs is on a mission to ensure we all have access to “proper” official corporate media streams which magically generate no bandwidth whatsoever.
In the end, I’m sure much like other corporate astroturf efforts, Arts+Labs will be relegated to the dustbin of history.
Don’t bother to stay tuned.
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Tronix – p2pnet
[Tronix is a database admin living in California who says he's and avid collector of all kinds of music -- including MIDI and MOD files. "I'm a fervent supporter of consumer's rights especially with regards to copyright laws," he says. "I've reached the conclusion the lawsuits launched against innocent victims are actually out-of-line even for copyright law. The law was never intended to be used against consumers and rather than promoting diversity, it has been used to stifle innovation at the cost to consumers."]
Los Angeles Times – , September , 2008
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September 27th, 2008 at 12:21 am
So no more Cisco hardware for me then. I will also recommend to all friends family and collogues to never buy Cisco shit ever again.