[LINK] Reprise: 'The New Dark Ages'

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:40 AM 2/05/2012, Roger Clarke wrote:
>Does this sound ridiculous, a perverse fantasy of some balkanized Web
>of the dystopian future?  Nope: it's all true, except that my
>"laptop" is actually an iPad and my "browser" is iTunes/iBooks.

If ACTA and other trade agreements opened up the walled gardens from 
this sort of problem, it *might* be worth the change. But until 
treaties, as with the imbalanced flow of capital and labour 
(restricted immigration problems), stop their selective protections 
of businesses just 'because', the system will continually be 
manipulated with silly things happening like the Apple situation.

This is what the 'pirate' movement is about: an expectation that 
information access won't be restricted based on out-of-date IP 
subsidies and non-regulation. ABC Melbourne is just now talking about 
the convergance report problems of distinguishing the delivery 
platforms, which is related to this problem.

Jan



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