EU parliament to lock up the European Internet? - In case you didn't know
 

http://blackouteurope.eu/

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Sure, there will always be ways to go around this kind of crap... but I still find it horrible that you are considering such actions, only to fit certain interests.

Not again... :(

Every once in a while this kind of stuff is suggested by some insane MP. Maybe another reason to really do vote the upcoming European elections. ;)

If only I were old enough...

Why? Incase inapropriate or "terrorist" sites are put up, so they plan to regulate every line of text through every forum, chat or site? As if.

Something WE cant conrtol, filter, and run to out specs wah wahh...

No it restricts the citizens life on yet another thing, health and safety have killed the fun of the outdoors for many, this would only restric people further.

Every few years some fat headed out of touch MP throws a punch at gaming the internet or some other "evil" computer based tech, hopefully the EU will just laugh him out of the building like they should... Moderating the entire net, lol Think of the cash you would need for that :p

No, as stated, they'll just force ISP's to not use public DNS servers, for example, and only include allowed ones in their DNS pool.
Ofcourse, sites would still be accessable by IP-address, but this could be easily solved with sofware firewalls and other crap.

Are you suprised?

Don't you know only a couple years from now, maybe 5-10 years, that we will be at cyber war? Where the government will watch your every move, tell you what to download and what you can't. You already see it with file sharing. I find it hilarious that you can be put into jail for downloading movies, music, and games. Several years ago I was strongly against piracy, it put people out of jobs. Now I know the real reason you are a criminal for such actions, its just another way to get money out of us.

People sentence us when they have no idea at all what piracy even is, they are nothing more then tools with a monopoly behind them. For example in the case of music, I download albums, but I always will buy then later, because its like a collection, yet its still illegal to download music, or games, even if you own them. Bands don't even make most of their money off albums, they make money off tours and concerts.

To me its stupid, how can you be jailed for holding files, something that isn't even an object in real life, its nothing solid, just data, and it will only get worse over the years. Now crap like this is coming where Internet will be limited like everything else, only for a price. Like companies will pull out some bullshit like to visit foreign websites you need to pay extra, because the company pays a tax to that country or some crap.

General lifestyle has been improving, as more people have been able to gain access to internet, in some places it is already free, but to some people why should something be free? (I also bet on a carbon tax to "fight" global warming, if you want to have a barbecue you will need to pay a tax lol) There can always be money pulled out of every ass, in only a few years most LEDC's will have become MEDC's and the whole world in general will have internet revolving around it. Then the real fun will begin, as its a whole other world to make more money off people and put baseless restrictions on. Aspects of life will be centered on computers, and imagine a virus or breach into them, it would devastate us badly.

Think of the money they can weed out of it too,

It may never come to a cyber war :)

Every 11 years (I think 2011 is the next one) as part of the suns natural fluxuations it "ejects" a huge blob of charged electrons, Occasionaly, these Hit Earth, the last one was 1860 something, it was a rather small one that hit west America, to start with there is something similer to the northern lights visable in the skys, one the "blob" hits a conducter is discharges into it, in 1860 this fried a lot of telegraph wires, but nothin major only took 3 years to fully restore the system,

Now could you imagine if something like that happened in this world? It would blast billions of watts into the power system melting transformers all over the world, not something easy to fix... Even harder with the panic at a large section of the planet suddenly losing every mains-electronic device, also it could cause huge dmg to world wide coms by frying sattalites, destroying GPS, making radio little more than static...

Thank god its only one in 11 years, and theres lots of room around earth... But It could happen again and I dont think anyone wants to spend the billions upgrading the system to deal with such a unlikely event, but if it did happen, it would be devestating.

In short, they'll be killing Internet.

that's really bad... I'm not in europe but if it will happen there it will happen here... that's not good... the restrictions should be use in house with special programs for that... but don't in internet companies.... =(.

On a Brighter Internet note, England will be Tearing up the old copper wiring to replace it with Fiber Optics (starting in 2012)

You still have copper wire :F ?
The world will have ended by 2012 anyway.. so its pointless :tsk_tsk: