How real is this threat?

Hi malware fighters,

Is part of the European Internet going on black after April this year.
Re:
http://www.blackouteurope.eu/
This will be presented to users as an option to subscribe to transparent broadband packages, but it will severely hamper the structure of the open Internet as we know it to-day, and might function a bit like pre-paid commercial TV is to-day. It will be presented as the only solution against P2P and piracy, but you can be denied access to certain sites and services, considering what you are being offered by your ISP.
If we do not vote it out, it will be brought in, end of the Internet as we have known it for decades,

polonus


That is surely not a good idea! :o

Hopefully, those of you in the EU can take the needed steps to prevent this from happening.


A good idea might be to use their avatars for a little while…

http://www.blackouteurope.eu/act/avatars.html

At least it will help spread the word a bit.

Man, if the US tried to do that, I’d freak. >:(

Details at 11. :slight_smile:

Am I totally retarded in actually thinking something like this could be real?

God I hope not… lol. 'Never know what’s real and what’s not on the 'Net these days…

Hi scythe944,

I think according to similar lines, and that is why they are likely to be able to pull this off, if no ones pays attention, and it is presented as a better deal for all you can be confronted with the “click commercial Internet only” variant brought in the way of Big Media’s wet dream, helped by regulators that think they actually do this for the good of all and will dig up any pretext to do it. They sell the idea to you with better graphics and 3 D and other optimization, and they tell you the Internet of old crumbled under it’s own weight through malware, crime and anarchy, the Internet 2 variant is already up and running on Universities and in the States, and then you have to have a permit and license to join, it will be faster, more of the same and location controlled, so they can cash in 6 times on the same data, just like it is with digital TV now, there the freedom of the days of analogue receivers also is never to return. Well some third party is going to decide what you see, what you hear, and what you read, and even more important what you don’t x 3 and why,

pol

just like it is with digital TV now, there the freedom of the days of analogue receivers also is never to return.
Since every one wants more and more channels all the time, the change was required or you would run out of bandwidth.