[dba-Tech] Ban unsolicited ads from the Net

Jim,

I totally agree with your take on DRMs. What I was fondly recalling were
the days of DARPA, when the whole thing was about distributing information
rather than ads. That vision, to my mind at least, has sadly disappeared.
OTOH, there are some really cool sites devoted to my spheres of interest,
such as philosophy, physics and literature, but somehow these other forkers
are mining this data and sending me stuff of absolutely zero interest to
me. Despite my surname, I do not want Fuller Breasts :)

A.


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Arthur:
>
> The trouble is if the internet ever becomes regulated and filtered to the
> point where we do not have all these unsavory businesses it will not be the
> internet any more. Right now the DRM folks are trying to limit, control and
> monetize everything, allow stiff penalties to all who do not pay and limit
> the ability, of those punished, to seek legal redress. If this DRM policy
> was to benefit the artists, it would be palatable but it appears to just be
> an attempt to entrench corporate supply chains and monopolies.
>
> Jim