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jaguar · 05-13-2004, 10:24 AM

Anyone that was involved with De-CSS knows that once something is no the net, you can't get it off, that's never been proven wrong, once it hits the filesharing networks (and it has), there is no way that can effectively shut it down, it's too distributed. Exactly why such networks are fantastic tools.

Oh an UT, I agree completely. All information on the war, all videos, all photos, no matter how unpalateable to anyone should be availaible for all to see. The worst ones should be on the top half of the front page for people to mull over as they eat breakfast. Iraqis getting blown in half by .50cal sniper fire, US soliders dragging away their buddies that just copped an AK round to the groin, burnt bodies littering the street. That was next time some armchair warrior asshole wants to yell out 'bring it on', they'll remember exactly what IT is.

There was a photo on the back of Adbusters a year or two back from the first gulf war of an Iraqi soldier who has burnt to death trying to get out of a tank that was hit by a bomb, grusome as hell, they had a quote from the photographer:

"If I don't photograph this, people like my mom will think the war is what they see on T.V"
- Kenneth Jarecke, photojournalist.

He's someone whose footsteps I would love to follow.

05-13-2004, 10:24 AM	#137
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	Anyone that was involved with De-CSS knows that once something is no the net, you can't get it off, that's never been proven wrong, once it hits the filesharing networks (and it has), there is no way that can effectively shut it down, it's too distributed. Exactly why such networks are fantastic tools. Oh an UT, I agree completely. All information on the war, all videos, all photos, no matter how unpalateable to anyone should be availaible for all to see. The worst ones should be on the top half of the front page for people to mull over as they eat breakfast. Iraqis getting blown in half by .50cal sniper fire, US soliders dragging away their buddies that just copped an AK round to the groin, burnt bodies littering the street. That was next time some armchair warrior asshole wants to yell out 'bring it on', they'll remember exactly what IT is. There was a photo on the back of Adbusters a year or two back from the first gulf war of an Iraqi soldier who has burnt to death trying to get out of a tank that was hit by a bomb, grusome as hell, they had a quote from the photographer: "If I don't photograph this, people like my mom will think the war is what they see on T.V" - Kenneth Jarecke, photojournalist. He's someone whose footsteps I would love to follow. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain Last edited by jaguar; 05-13-2004 at 10:31 AM.