http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/07/cops-and-robbers-file-swapping-and-privacy-issues-heat-up Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:47:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/07/cops-and-robbers-file-swapping-and-privacy-issues-heat-up#comment-6241 selif Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:43:10 +0000 http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/07/cops-and-robbers-file-swapping-and-privacy-issues-heat-up#comment-6241 now with the issues of isp's filtering and actively trying to block p2p software there's going to be a move to more encrypted excanges now with the issues of isp’s filtering and actively trying to block p2p software there’s going to be a move to more encrypted excanges

]]> http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/07/cops-and-robbers-file-swapping-and-privacy-issues-heat-up#comment-439 Rob Reynolds Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:54:00 +0000 http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/07/cops-and-robbers-file-swapping-and-privacy-issues-heat-up#comment-439 This battle is so amazing! The illegal file swapping issue is analogous to kids stealing apples from someone else's tree because they can. If there are no fences, then they feel like the apples belong to anyone who wants them... If there is a fence but the branches are hanging out of it then it becomes ambiguous, almost okay for them to take them (it's not like stealing..) If they have to trespass then they have some notion of it being wrong but doesn't 'feel' too wrong if they can get away with it because it's still fun... After all, it is nature that produces these apples... ! The internet is neither well fenced, nor should it be like pieces of land and their clear boundaries. We need to come up with higher level conceptual, moral and legal demarcation for the new Internet-Land. This is such an important issue! Eventually, the battle will lead to a better understanding of meanings and values! This battle is so amazing! The illegal file swapping issue is analogous to kids stealing apples from someone else’s tree because they can. If there are no fences, then they feel like the apples belong to anyone who wants them… If there is a fence but the branches are hanging out of it then it becomes ambiguous, almost okay for them to take them (it’s not like stealing..) If they have to trespass then they have some notion of it being wrong but doesn’t ‘feel’ too wrong if they can get away with it because it’s still fun… After all, it is nature that produces these apples… ! The internet is neither well fenced, nor should it be like pieces of land and their clear boundaries. We need to come up with higher level conceptual, moral and legal demarcation for the new Internet-Land. This is such an important issue! Eventually, the battle will lead to a better understanding of meanings and values!

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