Posts by Wayland Sothcott

It's not about music theft

We know that this will not really prevent copyright theft but the record industry is prepared to push for this because they can believe it will. It serves another purpose. It gets legally required government spyware onto your computer. It will be illegal to remove it and difficult to get online if the ISP requires it. Government plans require them to gain more control of the average person. People who resist this and don't believe the hype are in a minority and easily identified. We are all breaking the law somewhere along the line and can have pressure put on us due to this. It's not about music copyrigh, that's a pretext, it's about control of free speech and freedom by the government. The music industries fears are just being used to push some laws through.

The poster who quoted Train Spotting gets it. Think of the Matrix where Neo should keep his head down and be a good little office worker. If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

Bonding used to work well

Bonding has been around since ISDN. Two 64's would add up to a 128kbps, it worked with Demon and Quik Internet. It even worked with two standard ADSL lines, but since we have had ADSL MAX it's not worked properly. The ISP's say that BT are putting in some sort of spoiler. You can get twice the upload speed, almost 800+800 = 1400. This is very noticable since web pages and other activities are a lot more snappy. However it seems to make no difference to the download speed from a single source. It looks to me like BT have been holding this technology back for their own use.