[brlug-general] Cox prepares to suck more.

[Will Hill]

You should be careful when you agree with Andrew Baudouin.  He was baiting me 
again.  I was not too happy either with the way Tim trivialized the issue and 
presented a false choice but that's what people who want filters say and many 
of them believe they are right.  I've quoted the relevant chunks below so you 
can understand what I read.

I hope the day comes soon when people are allowed to share TV shows with each 
other and it's not a bandwith problem, but more important things are at 
stake.  I wrote a little something about TV recording the other day that I 
forgot to share here:

"One day, when the airwaves are free and people are simply allowed to share, 
all of this will look like the backward mess that it is. As Napster and other 
sharing services have shown, when you let people share the result is a 
distributed library that no institution can hope to match. Video, text books, 
scientific journals and all human knowledge and art should be so easy to 
access. Those who stand in the way of this easily achieved universal library 
are criminals."

http://72.203.149.158:1024/photo_album/chron/2009/2009_01_13-video_recording_again/

Society is a long way from that goal.  People who share their music and movie 
collections are hunted down and stripped of everything they own. I have not 
read any cases of people being prosecuted for making a library of scientific 
journal articles, but would not put it past the people pushing rotten laws 
like this:

http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000030&ct=1&SESSID=f246fced5098a13180e242e58f10e1db

That's enough soap boxing for me today.  I'd appreciate technical feedback 
about TV recording.  It's been a year since we talked about it.  I should 
probably get a better video card but I'm pleased with what I've collected so 
far.  There's been a lot of progress in the free video recording world in 
terms of quality and ease of use.

On Thursday 29 January 2009, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> I'm not sure how saying you two both had valid points was an insult

On Thursday 29 January 2009, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> I think both of you have a valid point here.
> ... 
> Andrew Baudouin wrote:
> > Yes, he does.
> > ...
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net
> > <mailto:tfournet at tfour.net>> wrote:
> > ...
> >     Do you really want your VoIP applications to stutter just so that
> >     your neighbor can download the latest episode of Lost from
> >     thepiratebay 20 seconds faster?