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"Final Note: I support the FBI's carnarvore. why??? because I would rather have the Internet packets treated like speech at a curb side cafe then then a system where your packets on leaving your machine are protected (privacy) THat is the US mail system and that means the goverment can regulatw the packets. Freedom has a price, and freedom at a cafe may mean some listens in. "

This shows a fundamental lack of understanding about privacy, computers and the general ideas of "personal". Would you be ok with the government monitoring your TV and radio programs? How about what foods you eat? Maybe let the government delve into your medical records? Privacy is privacy.

Also, your "analogy" fails as the US postal system is not allowed to actually read our mail. That is a federal offense. There must be a known threat posed by a piece of mail before anything is allowed to be examined. This is what privacy is all about. If we start letting the government listen to all our packets, we are then bound and regulated by the government. That is not freedom, not even close.


"1. b) If there is no preceived privacy once the packets leave my machine then the goverment will have no desire to regulate, tax or even care. It then becomes my resposibility to protect my packets (SSL, encyption etc.) In this model their is a higher chance for people to see them but there is no goverment controls on my packets.

Also rember that packets go through private and public networks on their way to a destionation. If Qwest, or ATT wants to look at packets crossing thier networks what rights do they have. According to the AOL case once you try to stop or regulate data flow you are then legally resposible for it. So If the goverment says all packets must be protected then Qwest will forced to protect all packets going through and in fact will not be able to stop any (DOS, spam etc) unless the goverment passes law regulateing those types. Consifer harrassing and threating phone calls. Until the goverment made those illegal they were protected by the fedral communication regulations. So If you ISP dumps spam and the fedral goverment rules it's protected speech the ISP could be sued. You will then have to get a law outlawing spam. THis then means the goverment is in the business of regulateing internet packets. Mrs. Gore will outlaw all bad words and rap songs and Mrs. Bush will get the naked women. Personally I prefer the cafe model, a little more work for me but the goverment stays the hell out. "

Again, you don't understand what you are saying. Threatening phone calls are illegal, but not screened. One must report the offense for it to be investigated. If we had a national governmental switchboard that all phone calls must pass through and would be individually monitored for offensive material....what kind of country would that be??

"3.) How many people reading this, calling me an idiot, have paid for their gzip program ??????"

I doubt anyone paid for it...gzip is GPL.

"4.) Without DRM I can't release crippled version of songs, with DRM everyone calls me evil. The problem is shareware only works when you give the enduser a reason to want the full version. With your version their is no carrot to upgrade, their is no reason other than to support the artist. We all know that is a lie, no one will part with their money. period. "

This is pure fantasy. I have paid for some great shareware programs that were not crippled (Think: UltraEdit and PaintShopPro), and I have even bought CDs after I have downloaded each and every song (and the bitrates were high enough that I could burn them to CD and not notice that much of a drop off, but I bought the CD anyway).

What you are saying is "I never would pay for it, therefore noone else would either"..and that is simply not the case. Generalizations never work....

jason