“Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren’t what they seem.
The anonymity of the web gives companies and governments golden opportunities to run astroturf operations: fake grassroots campaigns that create the impression that large numbers of people are demanding or opposing particular policies. Companies now use “persona management software”, which multiplies the efforts of each astroturfer, creating the impression that there’s major support for what a corporation or government is trying to do.
Software like this has the potential to destroy the internet as a forum for constructive debate, as it jeopardises the notion of online democracy.”
From The Guardian
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You point is right. nowadays, people use internet everyday, and every second there is one internet crime happened by hacker.
I’m not condoning internet piracy. I think copyright holders have a right to use their intellectual property as they see fit. The issue here is that the content industry is using our government (and our government is merrily letting them) to push global copyright regulations that will have horribly destructive consequences – to internet users, internet service providers, and the businesses that rely on them.