Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Net partitioning: divide et impera

Want to see an Amazon streaming video and live abroad? Sorry dude, you are out of luck. You get to see this:

You might want to watch some Hulu videos? You get to see this:

There are few things about internet I hate more than this "network partitioning". It sucks! I am willing to pay–why on Earth am I not allowed to do that?

Yes I know about the copyright issues. But why is it supposed to be MY problem?

I don't want to wait for some crippled localized version of those (and many other) services. It is not fair and only shows how the internet becomes more and more divided into small "manageable" chunks and then make people pay for crossing the boundaries between them. How pathetic.

I WANT MY GLOBALIZATION BACK!

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