Lately, there are lots of news about Internet censorship that is comming to the free nations too. Goverments want to control all Internet traffic, cut down p2p, turn off direct download sites (aka Megaupload), even some companies can't offer their services in other countries (pandora, netflix, google music, etc) due to the laws approved by those goverments that are helping to die (but they don't know it) to the copyright lobby.
It seems that goverments are doing things for the common good... of several thousands of people in the world, against billions. I recently read about this point of view, and it is very interesting. What are doing those billions people? They should win, they outnumber by far that poor blind people. Well, there is a silent war in the background.
Putting doors in the field (literal traslation of "poner puertas al campo") is a Spanish axiom, meaning that when something is so big (like the countryside), you can't put a fence around it to stop people getting in. It is used when someone do a pointless futile action trying to accoplish an impossible mission. That expression fits very well when we are speaking about Internet restrictions and inspired the name and the theme of this blog.
People is fighting a resistance war against restriction, bypassing doors in the field with easy. The powerful people is creating more and more sophisticathed methods to build doors, but billions of brains thinking on how to bypass them are winning the war.
The first example of this story is the Napster case. When Napster where closed, music lobby was very happy because they have killed piracy but they where wrong. Internet evolved and adapted its methods and built decentraliced p2p systems to share not only music, but any type of file.
Every try to restrict Internet became in a solution to bypass that restrictions (anonymous proxies, VPN, TOR). Each restriction creates more powerful solutions. It's like fighting against bacterias with antibiotics, sooner or later, bacterias will adapt and antibiotics will be useless.
And this blog will try to talk about restrictions and how to bypass them. I'll post in English and Spanish, at least, some posts will be written right (or not...) Use this knowledge as is, you are solely responsible for your actions.
Freedom is out there.
It seems that goverments are doing things for the common good... of several thousands of people in the world, against billions. I recently read about this point of view, and it is very interesting. What are doing those billions people? They should win, they outnumber by far that poor blind people. Well, there is a silent war in the background.
Putting doors in the field (literal traslation of "poner puertas al campo") is a Spanish axiom, meaning that when something is so big (like the countryside), you can't put a fence around it to stop people getting in. It is used when someone do a pointless futile action trying to accoplish an impossible mission. That expression fits very well when we are speaking about Internet restrictions and inspired the name and the theme of this blog.
People is fighting a resistance war against restriction, bypassing doors in the field with easy. The powerful people is creating more and more sophisticathed methods to build doors, but billions of brains thinking on how to bypass them are winning the war.
The first example of this story is the Napster case. When Napster where closed, music lobby was very happy because they have killed piracy but they where wrong. Internet evolved and adapted its methods and built decentraliced p2p systems to share not only music, but any type of file.
Every try to restrict Internet became in a solution to bypass that restrictions (anonymous proxies, VPN, TOR). Each restriction creates more powerful solutions. It's like fighting against bacterias with antibiotics, sooner or later, bacterias will adapt and antibiotics will be useless.
And this blog will try to talk about restrictions and how to bypass them. I'll post in English and Spanish, at least, some posts will be written right (or not...) Use this knowledge as is, you are solely responsible for your actions.
Freedom is out there.
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