>rights ( BST, DeCSS e.g. ), it is better to use the speed of propagation >to make their efforts useless than to rely on your right to publish on >your own private site. You can circulate information to millions of >machines before "they" even know what happened. IOW, instead of saying >the link to the list is removed why not just send the list? Hell, cc: A very good point. The biggest stupidity of net activists is engaging thuggies in their own domain - laws, rules, constitutions etc., instead of leveraging the only asset that they have - the technology itself. One does not subdue tapeworms by out-eating the shit. It is easy to outlaw any technology. It is hard to stop bits on the wire. Http servers (aka "web") are stationary and vulnerable. What we need is an effort to make distributed services accessible to more people. Many new users have no idea what Usenet is, not to mention Eternity. Ultimately, a serverless adaptive network should be designed, where each end-user machine acts as a message store & relay, with protocols that can keep the system alive with a minimum number of online nodes present. No, I don't know how to do this, yet. But I'll figure it out.
