[Sigia-l] NWWW

[Jonathan Baker-Bates]

 "This service isn't meant (for) people are who trying to be evasive,"
said Andy Champagne, Akamai's director of network analytics. "It's meant
for the 99 percent of the general public who are just at home surfing." 

Hmm. Sounds familiar. The "it's meant for the majority" argument crops
up in arguments supporting DRM too. It's interesting to note that the
Darknet paper discusses this, and even predicts that the "99 percent"
will eventually drift into finding ways to circumvent restrictions with
a success in proportion to the intensity that those restrictions are
enforced by commercial interests. In short, fencing the web in like this
isn't going to work in the long run.

I really recommend the Darknet paper to anyone who is interested in user
experiences with commercial digital media in the future.

Jonathan



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