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FBI
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bctrainers
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Well, at least we know that someone was smoking something when they announced that.  |
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SATAN-HHH
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Location: Texas
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Yeah right, a major riot'd break out if that happened. I'd like to see them try.
All your baseball bat are belong to us |
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FBI
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| SATAN-HHH wrote: | Yeah right, a major riot'd break out if that happened. I'd like to see them try.
All your baseball bat are belong to us |
Lol yeah...
start breakin into datacenters and burn everything.... |
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PingBad
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Well, according to the World Internet Usage Statistics News and Population Stats, there are 1,076,203,987 people using the internet. Additionaly, research done within berkeley university has shown that there is well over 550 billion web-connected documents consuming a grand total of 7,500 terabytes of drive space globally...
Thats an awful lot of data and people viewing it... the RIAA would certainly be up against stiff competition if they really want the internet shut down (which, in my opinion, is now largely impossible if only for the fact that no one person/company/country has direct control over the internet) - and thats not withstanding the fact that there are a lot of people who depend on the internet's very existance to live (eg: online marketting reps, some software developers).
My response to all that tho, they can try but they wont win |
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shadow16
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| I have 3 points to make. First one, the impact on the economy would be catastrophic. Second, the RIAA is an extremely corrupt American organization; contrary to popular belief, the Internet is global and is not owned by Americans. If the courts decided to make datacenters illegal in the United States (worst case scenario) they'd just be crippling their own country while the rest of the planet adapted. And finally, Theinquirer is not a reliable source for news... most of their stores are complete crap. |
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Stefano
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Location: Beirut
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imagin there is no more internet
well that will take us back 50 years
it wont happen im sure |
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PingBad
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| it can't happen |
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FBI
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| PingBad wrote: | | it can't happen |
yeah....Even if they are rich theres about millions of companies are against it....beside the US Gov and RIAA |
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skullo
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| why? lol |
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Stefano
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Location: Beirut
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only one way to take internet down!
a huge big badabooom nuke on the states lol
/me is going to buy north korean shares |
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PingBad
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Joined: 05 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Dec 19, 2006 10:26am Post subject: |
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| Stefano wrote: | only one way to take internet down!
a huge big badabooom nuke on the states lol
/me is going to buy north korean shares |
even that wouldn't kill off the Internet in its entirety. Granted a large portion of it would subsequently go offline, the US is not the Internet (as some politicians would like to think) |
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Stefano
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| 80% maybe ? and iwonder if the the states is hit, wouldnt be all the registrar ? then all domains will fall i guess.. |
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FBI
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Get a knife
Cut the fiber optic lines
/me goes buy North Korea shares and China too |
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PingBad
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| Stefano wrote: | | 80% maybe ? and iwonder if the the states is hit, wouldnt be all the registrar ? then all domains will fall i guess.. |
Every country has its own registrar (unless they flog off their namespace to other countries for a profit, which is a pretty stupid deal, in my opinion) |
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