Hello, my connection has been dying lately, disconnecting for hours. My brother called them and whatever, no one really knows what is going on but its working again. Dont know what it is really. I would assume they are moving in on their plans to take our freedom and drain whatever they can from us. I personally think the internet should be free, in fact many service we pay for should be free because isnt it our tax money and government money (which is our money) that these companies receive and then they research and do all these experiment through our money and when they finish, they sell it to us. Thats just wrong if thats how the system works. What do you guys think of the current state and the future of the internet especially dealing with p2p.

This post has been edited by fleshsniper1: Sep 18 2008, 04:53 AM

I would agree. However the internet research was not entirely funded by Tax payer money. Colleges and Universities were involved as well, in addition to the US government.

Should the internet be regulated based on services? No. Thats why I have a link to http://www.savetheinternet.com/ in my signature. That site would shed more light on the whole situation.

The sad part is that the whole world follows America's lead when it comes to the internet. If Net Neutrality is broken in the US, then it would be broken all around the world as well. The fight for the internet starts and ends in the US - I'm cheering you guys on!

Good news though, Net Neutrality advocates are winning until now.

As for P2P, just a few days ago courts in Europe have given the upper hand to P2P sites. If you host torrent links it is no longer considered to be breaking copyright law, as you are not hosting copyrighted material. Though if i remember correctly it was a Spanish court and a court of on more country. The EU court has also supported this measure, so local european courts should follow that verdict.