> There is a bigger force behind those recent major changes that can break the internet as we know. But who ? You're framing it as a conspiracy theory, but the

> There is a bigger force behind those recent major changes that can break the internet as we know. But who ? You're framing it as a conspiracy theory, but the answer is simple: business interests. The internet is no longer about personal stuff-- your Geocities page, sharing 128kb MP3s with your friends, and blogging on LiveJournal. It's a platform to influence people and sell shit, and everybody who likes money wants to get in on that action. And yes, these disparate interests are totally content to exploit it by lobbying for changes in their favor until it's too fragmented, restrictive and worthless to be useful to anybody, yet like cable television we'll treat it as something essential to life and pay the monthly bill through retirement just the same.