The Internet

The Internet started as a project of the Defence Research Agency. It was released into the wild and is now part of the culture. Money is being made through it and that is one reason why the sharks are moving in. A major reason is that the Internet is a truth machine; it by passes the main stream media and its controllers.

Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
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Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network’s first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States........ And now, the balance of power is shifting. Data is increasingly flowing around the United States, which may have intelligence — and conceivably military — consequences.
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Spies found it helpful. Now they will have to try a bit harder but with a multigigabuck budget there should be no problem. If they want more they just have to produce a story about their problems. They didn't tell us about 9/11 or any thing else useful. We are not supposed to notice though.

Problem and solution? The Internet is a  truth machine.

 

Deep linking
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Some commercial websites object to other sites making deep links into their content either because it bypasses advertising on their main pages, passes off their content as that of the linker or, like The Wall Street Journal, they charge users for permanently-valid links. Sometimes, deep linking has led to legal action such as in the 1997 case of Ticketmaster versus Microsoft, where Microsoft deep-linked to Ticketmaster's site from its Sidewalk service. This case was settled when Microsoft and Ticketmaster arranged a licencing agreement. Ticketmaster later filed a similar case against Tickets.com, and the judge in this case ruled that such linking was legal as long as it was clear to whom the linked pages belonged.
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Money like sex rears its ugly head. Money is perhaps more dangerous.

 

Netlitigation
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Linking sets the Internet apart from all other forms of media. Although no linking - related litigation has yet challenged the so-called "fundamental" right to link, the explosive growth of e-commerce and the continued reliance, at least in part, on "eyeball" driven revenue means that links, linking methods, and metatags will continue to spawn lawsuits.
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Read this as:- Lawyers can scent money to be made.

 

TV-Links.co.uk Raided, Owner Arrested
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TV-Links (now dead) is a site which links to sites like Google Video and YouTube, which host clips of TV shows. Today, the Gloucestershire County Council, in association with a group called the FACT, raided the site’s servers and arrested the 26 year old man from Cheltenham who ran the site.
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Linking to other sites is now illegal - IF various capitalist swine can get away with it. See Deep Linking and Netlitigation. Money rides on the matter and they want more. How much more? There is no limit to their greed. Gates has proved that. 

 

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Updated on Saturday, 27 December 2008 22:19:09