The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin”

Re:The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin” by tomjen3 on Monday May 09, 2011 @02:14PM (#2529613)

We wouldn't have borders if we could teleport to any place on earth. The internet is the closer to this scenario than the classical country model.

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Re:The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin” by chopsueyar on Monday May 09, 2011 @02:37PM (#2529711)

Except is has nothing to do with physical objects, only bits and oscillating electrons.

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Re:The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin” by nitrogen on Monday May 09, 2011 @09:39PM (#2530909)

The analogy holds because governments are trying to apply notions (such as national borders) derived from a physically-constrained world of isolation to the unconstrained, connected virtual world.

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Re:The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin” by chopsueyar on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @10:55AM (#2536649)

This virtual world you speak of requires a physical medium of transfer.

Let us not forget all that physical hardware is somewhere and somebody's electrical infrastructure is powering it.

OSI - Level 1.

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