jayeff

I'm not sure how you could have a very serious discussion, with so many facts wrong.

"The internet was created so that guys could send each other scans stolen out of porno mags." Wrong. Depending on how you define the "Internet", its creation was still related to the exchange of research data in some shape or form.

"The whole concept of e-commerce came from internet porn". Wrong again. I was buying and selling via my PC before I ever came across anything except free porn.

And there is no "right to free information". Why would anyone bother producing something if they could only make money from it by flying banners around their work? Okay, some would, hobbyists and the like. But don't scientists, musicians, etc., have a right to make a living directly from their efforts?

The Internet is a corporate playground. You may as well get used to it. There are many downsides, but if - for example - a record company didn't pick up the tab for making records and buying new equipment, now famous bands would have remained in obscurity, playing in local clubs and bars. So whose records would you be listening to on the 'Net? Whose books would you be reading? Come to that, who would fund the 'Net itself, or would you have the backbone providers and the ISPs all promoting Amazon or whatever?