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April 10, 2017, 08:21:57 AM

good morning sir the copyright people are trying sooo hard to stop bitcoin and file sharing ~ it's reaching epic battle mode ... they are trying to threaten legal action against their own customers ~ fekking cable companys are feeling the squeeze of peer-to-peer sharing and private (anonymous) bitcoin payment systems== they are sooo pissed ==gotta love it ! :-D //^weeeee

There's nothing they can do about the real New World Order and they know it. True globalism isn't governments or other corporations. It's decentralized worldwide networks of peers, i.e. true democracy.

A forward-thinking Torontonian named Marshall McLuhan wrote about the global village back in the 1960s, long before the internet. Now his prophecies are being fulfilled. The "information superhighway" has become more like a parking lot. The whole world is being paved over.

Napster was just the thin edge of the wedge. With each succeeding attempt to shut down p2p file sharing, they just made it stronger and more decentralized.

Their only line of attack against Bitcoin is the exchanges. In the days of Gox it was almost as easy as attacking Napster. Now multiple exchanges make them harder to attack. As more and more bitcoins are traded off-exchange by individuals, it gets harder and harder for them to interfere.

Even more important than them losing control over money and entertainment (bread and circuses?) is that they're losing control over the dissemination of information itself. I suppose they could attempt to censor the peer-community-generated content of Wikipedia but another less centralized platform would soon arise. Meanwhile people around the world are communicating more every day.

They can't stuff the cat back into the bag.


I have to quote this for reference. I completely agree with what you wrote. My only fear is that, historically speaking, when govs lose too much control over their institutions we have seen only one thing over and over again, which is war.
Power is not decentralized, nor is democrazy. We have a long way to get there eventually.

i was going to say they may not be able to stuff the cat back in the bag but they can set fire to all the bags and drown all the cats along with criminalizing (with force) the possession of bags & cloth and cat & kittens.

we're not dealing with the kind of entity that just gives up...