In Ben Hur, we were introduced by
All that happened was that the “cat” sated it’s enforced hunger by eating the only meat in it’s reach, which unfortunately for the Christian, was usually the Christian.
In world war two, Hitler recognizing the power of “crowd sourcing” by picking on the weak; created the SD to beat up the Jewish population and break their shop windows.
When they still didn’t get the message and leave, he herded them into ghetto’s from whence he started gassing them en masse.
Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Jozef Stalin are all tarred with the same brush – picking on the weak and infirm to instill fear into the rest of the population.
Powerful men, placed into power by corporate cartels that could then carry out the instructions of their masters (the men that helped get them elected) or by preying on the weak, the ignorant and the unarmed.
Mankind has learnt from this lesson and in the
One has to ask, how many bullets does it take to kill a person?
The answer is, usually just one.
Unfortunately, this type of frenzied bullet buying can only lead us towards a Mad Max like existence unless Governments actually read the signs and intercept the meme by rebuilding consumer trust.
Unfortunately we are still seeing organisations like the RIAA in the USA picking on the small home consumer and organisations like IPFI, and AFACTS cherry picking target victims who are least able to defend themselves, we are seeing similar tactics employed as those used by the most evil men in History.
We have already stated several times that the majority of file sharing is carried out on corporate networks.
Yep, more people file share on corporate networks than from home.
Why? Anonymity, more bandwidth and essentially, fear of the corporate bully boys – which now look like FBI, CIA and other enforcement agencies who have been convinced by your elected representatives to prey on their fellow citizens in a most unhealthy manner.
Unhealthy? Yes.
Arresting and imprisoning the public for an act that is essentially an extension of normal behaviour – i.e.: “Sharing what is good with your friends”, must be unhealthy.
We have stated before that the persons/organisations that benefit the most from illegal file sharing are the major RBOCS and Telcos.
Who are the bully boys going after?
The little guys, the little ISP’s. The ones that buy their data access pipes from the majors.
In other words, the enforcement agencies are not going up against the drug manufacturers, but the corner drug dealers.
In
Somewhere every ISP in
Richard Alston? Who’s he?
Well, unfortunately, he’s the chap that put Telstra in the
position of controlling every dollar of commerce in and out of
You mean a Cartel?
Well yes, actually a Cartel that controls all the other cartels.
Wow. So he’s on the FBI’s most wanted list.
Nope. He doesn’t even
rate a mention. Even though he cost
So is he one of the bully boys?
No. He’s not. He was doing it for all the wrong reasons but I’m sure he genuinely believed he was doing it for the right reasons.
How is that Koltai?
Well his advisors told him that this was the way to increase the value of Telstra for a public float; which of course would ensure that the Libs were voted in again for a consecutive term.
Maybe an economist here and there might have mentioned the long term devastating effects on the economy from throttling all communications with the outside world, but I doubt those chaps received any kind of hearing.
Koltai, did you warn him?
No. I unfortunately chose the world of entrepreneurial endeavours and failed when I met the 600 lb Gorrilla head to head.
Why?
Well, unfortunately, Telstra had access to weapons of mass destruction, like stock brokers, ASIC and the ASX.
So what has that to do with AFACTS and the Christians?
Right now, AFACTS –v- iiNet is awaiting it’s court date. iiNet that has less than 10% of the Australian internet population is apparently guilty for allowing their users to carry out massive amounts of file sharing.
You mean Michael Malone is the biggest file sharer in
No. And neither are his users.
For sometime, Perceptric ran a public P2P ED2K server collecting statistics on whom was searching for what on the ED2K file sharing networks.
One of the interesting parts of running an ED2K file server is the number of statistics that one can collect from such a tool.
One of the statistics is what IP numbers are doing the enquiring.
Well we have six months of those statistics now.
Newsflash… the IP numbers doing most of the P2P file requesting are not from the iiNet Network. Nor are they from Optus or TPG or Internode.
They are from….. surprise surprise surprise….. Corporations connected via Telstra.
Koltai, why haven’t you told us this before?
Well I did and I told APRA and MIPI and Price Waterhouse.
And?
Well none of them were interested.
So Koltai, if the powers that be were not interested in
corporate
So they can increase the score.
Christians –v- Lions
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Because according to some, that’s entertainment.
To me I’m afraid it will always be the bullying actions of the strong picking on the weak, that are unable to hire the legal muscle to defend themselves adequately inside an environment that favours the side with the most lawyers and the most barristers over the side of Justice.
References:
The Most Evil Men in History.
For those that missed it on the Discovery Channel or the History Channel, the series is time shifted at a number of Internet sites:
Discovery Channel - The Most Evil Men In History – Hitler
