The Null Device

I was thinking of buying the new B[if]tek album, 2020. However, as it's owned by Sony, the same company that declared war on the Internet recently, I will not do so. If Sony get their way (and with billions of dollars worth of lawyers and lobbyists at their disposal, they stand a good chance), peer-to-peer file sharing will be filtered at ISPs' routers, and the result will be an Orwellian nightmare that makes Echelon look quaint. It's likely that the ultimate effect will be to formalise the reduction of the Internet to a one-way broadcast medium, cleansing it of anything that's not consistent with it being a means of consuming corporate content without the pesky overheads of due process. Pity, because the B[if]tek album looks interesting; however, I'm not giving a cent to the crushing of the Internet. And you shouldn't either.

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