On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > i trust that nobody will make the comment "but source code couldn't > possibly be considered dangerous enough to block using ACTA" and this > might go some way towards explaining one - not all - one i repeat just > one of the factors why i believe that free software development > _needs_ tools which can side-step single-point-of-failure locations > that can be blocked by stupid fucking "agreements" like ACTA. i trust that the above subject-line comment, or more specifically its constituent links, begins to hint at why i believe it is important that git-over-p2p be given a higher priority than it is at present. you can easily join the dots to see where this government insanity is going: it won't be long before this insanity is utilised to take control of free software web sites just because they happen to be hosting tools which MIGHT be utilised "for copyright infringment". it's bad enough that the DMCA exists and can be used to intimidate sourceforget into removing rtmpdump - now imagine if someone decided to take control of sourceforget ok actually yeah maybe that's not so great a loss after all but it's the PRINCIPLE damnit :) l. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html