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You miss the point
The internet should be open to eveyone, because you need it today for almost everything (and there's not much alternative to a person because almost all cybercafes have closed, and there's not even any public area where you can freely connect to the Internet to exercise most of your rights).

Just one example: you can declare your incomes online, this is the only way to get a discount on the tax to pay on it. If you don't have the Internet you'll pay more. That's occuring much more often today, including for basic needs such as your energy bill, or voting. You also need the internet to phone at much lower prices.

There was a time where the Internet access was a luxury service for the richest ones. This is no more the case: Internet access is there for the poorest ones, because this saves them lots of money. It is also a vital need for disabled persons.

So the internet is a right. I'm not sure that an internet access should be closed to anyone, even if he's taken as abusing it for illegal downloads. There should exist a minimum service that CAN'T be closed by any ISP, even if this means that you'll get a basic access with limited protocols supported and access through a monitored proxy and limited lists of services that everyone needs. And this minimum service should even be completely free of any charge and available to everyone without condition.
Posted by: PhilippeV   Posted on: 11/26/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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This is a Dark day  Mectron | 11/23/07
How would you punish those who break the law?  NonZealot | 11/23/07
Answering one wrong with another is just wrong.  Raymond Danner | 11/23/07
True...  BlazingEagle | 11/26/07
Judging by some media/software companies, reward them with low prices?  HypnoToad72 | 11/24/07
Foolish!  DarbyOhara | 11/26/07
Show me . . .  JLHenry | 11/26/07
There's a good deal ! Not so bad  PhilippeV | 11/26/07
monitoring only the illegal downloads???  invmgr@... | 11/27/07
Wrong.  PhilippeV | 11/26/07
you're crazy...  jmelnik | 11/27/07
What  Boot_Agnostic | 11/23/07
Fact is...  Raymond Danner | 11/23/07
Yipes  HypnoToad72 | 11/24/07
Hardware dongle?  Boot_Agnostic | 11/26/07
Actually  DarbyOhara | 11/26/07
Dongles ...  KBall1 | 11/26/07
Why in heaven's name . . .  JLHenry | 11/26/07
Short memory  SteveMak | 11/24/07
Point Missing  DarbyOhara | 11/26/07
Maybe its time to license internet users  mrjonno | 11/24/07
becuase..  ivanotter | 11/26/07
You miss the point  PhilippeV | 11/26/07
here here!  ttocsmij | 11/27/07
License  prikkebeen | 11/28/07
Is France getting the same sweet deals the pirates in China is getting?  HypnoToad72 | 11/24/07
Discounted Prices To China  KBall1 | 11/26/07
What crap!  perversion2003@... | 11/25/07
Why have you put 'illegal' in quotes?  mrjonno | 11/26/07
Presumed theft by virtue of BW ulitzation  Altotus | 11/26/07
The Source  KBall1 | 11/26/07
High Prices = High Piracy  KBall1 | 11/26/07
"artists' backs"? That is crap.  NeverLift | 11/26/07
10%  Altotus | 11/26/07
So, Stealing Small Is Okay  Regulator1956 | 11/26/07
you missed his point.  ivanotter | 11/26/07
Actual prices!  PhilippeV | 11/26/07
Link to prior essay on the topic  NeverLift | 11/26/07
RE: France set to cut Web access for music, film pirates  seaturtel@... | 11/26/07
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What defines pirating?  John Musbach | 11/26/07
exactly-- and they won't because they can't...  jmelnik | 11/27/07
oy!  ttocsmij | 11/27/07
It starts to show that  hkommedal | 11/27/07

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