Comments on: RIAA succeeds - http://www.p2pnet.net/story/407 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Fausty | torrentfreedom.net http://www.p2pnet.net/story/407/comment-page-1#comment-978372 Fausty | torrentfreedom.net Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:05:35 +0000 #comment-978372 "And the second effect, of course, is the long-predicted and oft-delayed spread of encryption. The RIAA is succeeding where the Cypherpunks failed, convincing users to trade a broad but penetrable privacy for unbreakable anonymity under their personal control. In contrast to the Cypherpunks "eat your peas" approach, touting encryption as a first-order service users should work to embrace, encryption is now becoming a background feature of collaborative workspaces. Because encryption is becoming something that must run in the background, there is now an incentive to make it’s adoption as easy and transparent to the user as possible. It’s too early to say how widely casual encryption use will spread, but it isn’t too early to see that the shift is both profound and irreversible. " ^^ added to the text of our "why we do what we do" section of the Cryptocloud and Torrentfreedom websites - he's hit the nail on the head. Sort of exciting to see something one has privately predicted, come to be seen by others - and eventually become common knowledge. So many things in life are difficult to envision forward into the future, but now and again there's a trend that just resonates clearly. Fausty “And the second effect, of course, is the long-predicted and oft-delayed spread of encryption. The RIAA is succeeding where the Cypherpunks failed, convincing users to trade a broad but penetrable privacy for unbreakable anonymity under their personal control. In contrast to the Cypherpunks “eat your peas” approach, touting encryption as a first-order service users should work to embrace, encryption is now becoming a background feature of collaborative workspaces. Because encryption is becoming something that must run in the background, there is now an incentive to make it’s adoption as easy and transparent to the user as possible. It’s too early to say how widely casual encryption use will spread, but it isn’t too early to see that the shift is both profound and irreversible. ”

^^ added to the text of our “why we do what we do” section of the Cryptocloud and Torrentfreedom websites – he’s hit the nail on the head.

Sort of exciting to see something one has privately predicted, come to be seen by others – and eventually become common knowledge. So many things in life are difficult to envision forward into the future, but now and again there’s a trend that just resonates clearly.

Fausty

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