... just a sign of the times. And a sign that the Internet has succeeded
so well that the big boys want to control it. For their own purposes.
And they will.
to misquote john gilmore, "the internet interprets control as damage and
routes around it." anything nonconsensual ends up self-marginalizing.
look at software implementations of internet-series protocols for examples.
the implementations with the most "control" over the present and future of
these protocols are the ones with unclear ownership that are given away for
free.
there's plenty to worry about wrt the big boys controlling things, but the
internet is definitionally and constitutionally uncontrollable. yay!
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Paul Vixie