iarticle-chemla-confessions-thief.mw - tgtimes - The Gopher Times Err bitreich.org 70 hgit clone git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes URL:git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes bitreich.org 70 1Log /scm/tgtimes/log.gph bitreich.org 70 1Files /scm/tgtimes/files.gph bitreich.org 70 1Refs /scm/tgtimes/refs.gph bitreich.org 70 1Tags /scm/tgtimes/tag bitreich.org 70 1README /scm/tgtimes/file/README.md.gph bitreich.org 70 i--- Err bitreich.org 70 iarticle-chemla-confessions-thief.mw (7129B) Err bitreich.org 70 i--- Err bitreich.org 70 i 1 .SH chemla Err bitreich.org 70 i 2 Confessions of a thief Err bitreich.org 70 i 3 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 4 .QP Err bitreich.org 70 i 5 Below is the beginning of "Confessions of a Thief" from Laurent Err bitreich.org 70 i 6 Chemla. He founded a major French DNS registrar, but before that, Err bitreich.org 70 i 7 was the first to commit online piracy in France (from a Minitel), Err bitreich.org 70 i 8 and worked on development tools for Atari. The book is published Err bitreich.org 70 i 9 online in French and translated below. Err bitreich.org 70 i 10 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 11 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 12 A thief. How else to name one of the first individual in France to Err bitreich.org 70 i 13 procure itself an Internet access? In 1994, borrowing the clothes of Err bitreich.org 70 i 14 a telecommunication expert, that I was not yet, I obtained from an IT Err bitreich.org 70 i 15 staff employee of a parisian University that he let me an access to Err bitreich.org 70 i 16 Internet. In exchange, I brought him help - relatively - to the Err bitreich.org 70 i 17 building of a network devoted to let student work from home. Err bitreich.org 70 i 18 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 19 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 20 I then stole, I confess, this first access to a network that remained Err bitreich.org 70 i 21 to me a mostly unexplored land since my last visits in 1992, mediated Err bitreich.org 70 i 22 by obscure manoeuvres of a friend or through piracy. Err bitreich.org 70 i 23 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 24 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 25 This theft benefited to me, I could learn to use a tool long before Err bitreich.org 70 i 26 the majority of the IT crowd, gaining an advance that still persist Err bitreich.org 70 i 27 today. Err bitreich.org 70 i 28 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 29 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 30 I stole, but I plead good faith. At this epoch nobody around me did Err bitreich.org 70 i 31 understand what it was about. Would it bit a thief to steal something Err bitreich.org 70 i 32 nobody had interest in? This access was to the reach of only a few Err bitreich.org 70 i 33 testing university students, this access that a small IT company could Err bitreich.org 70 i 34 not afford, I stole it, and I am not ashamed. Err bitreich.org 70 i 35 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 36 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 37 For my relatives, I am nontheless an "IT janitor". Programmer to a Err bitreich.org 70 i 38 tiny IT company, I always have been passionated by telematic networks. Err bitreich.org 70 i 39 A passion that costed me, in 1986, to be the first to be guilty of Err bitreich.org 70 i 40 piracy in France, pirated from a Minitel, yes, but to each his glory. Err bitreich.org 70 i 41 As there was not yet any law against IT piracy, I have been Err bitreich.org 70 i 42 incriminated for stealing electrical power. All that ended up in an Err bitreich.org 70 i 43 acquittal, but still, here is a decent start for a thief career! Err bitreich.org 70 i 44 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 45 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 46 Indeed, how to name differently someone who constituted its Err bitreich.org 70 i 47 professional network by taking part to associations? We have the Err bitreich.org 70 i 48 impression to contribute unpaid for the many, but we mostly get known Err bitreich.org 70 i 49 and, time after time, the clients get attracted by this visibility. Err bitreich.org 70 i 50 Of course anyone whose professional occupation deals with voluntary Err bitreich.org 70 i 51 sector end-up face to its own consciousness. Not unlike, I suppose, a Err bitreich.org 70 i 52 lawyer who gain clients from the excluded folk that he help graciously Err bitreich.org 70 i 53 and daily. I ignore what its consciousness would tell him, but I know Err bitreich.org 70 i 54 mine is not at rest. Err bitreich.org 70 i 55 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 56 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 57 Nowadays again, my activities continue to be lucrative out of Err bitreich.org 70 i 58 Internet, at the time of Nasdaq's fall. How can one earn while Err bitreich.org 70 i 59 everyone loose, if not by cheating? Err bitreich.org 70 i 60 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 61 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 62 A thief is on that use to its profit else's good. To me, Internet is Err bitreich.org 70 i 63 a public good and, if serve as commercial gallery for some, it must Err bitreich.org 70 i 64 not limit itself to such a deviation. Internet must first and Err bitreich.org 70 i 65 foremost be the tool that, for the first time in mankind, permitted Err bitreich.org 70 i 66 the freedom of speech, defined as a fundamental human right. Err bitreich.org 70 i 67 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 68 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 69 This right, in all its guarantee from our constitutional state, has Err bitreich.org 70 i 70 stayed hypothetical since its proclamation. In France law protects Err bitreich.org 70 i 71 freedom of Speech of syndicates and journalists but no text that Err bitreich.org 70 i 72 permit to the simple citizen to undertake justice, to reach its Err bitreich.org 70 i 73 freedom. What else since, before Internet, this freedom was to the Err bitreich.org 70 i 74 reach of some privilegied? The lawyer protected them because only Err bitreich.org 70 i 75 them needed that protection. Ten years ago, noone would have been Err bitreich.org 70 i 76 able to benefit an as simple, fast and affordable way to expose works, Err bitreich.org 70 i 77 arts or ideas but by vociferating in the street or by climbing the Err bitreich.org 70 i 78 social scale rung by rung to the point of having media's attention. Err bitreich.org 70 i 79 One had to be represented by others with the expression right for Err bitreich.org 70 i 80 themself. Only ersatz. The only freedom that matters is the one Err bitreich.org 70 i 81 available to all and I dont give a damn about those reserved to the Err bitreich.org 70 i 82 mighty or their representatives. Err bitreich.org 70 i 83 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 84 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 85 Internet thereby permit to a growing number of citizen to apply their Err bitreich.org 70 i 86 fundamental right to take the parole on the public place. From this Err bitreich.org 70 i 87 point of view, it must be protected such as any other necessary yet Err bitreich.org 70 i 88 fragile resource, such as water we drink everyday. It cannot be Err bitreich.org 70 i 89 reserved to anyone, neither be limited in its usages if not by the Err bitreich.org 70 i 90 common right. No exception legislation must forbide the exercise of Err bitreich.org 70 i 91 freedom of speech and, as soon as possible, states must preserve the Err bitreich.org 70 i 92 common tool that became a public benefit. And as I use a public good Err bitreich.org 70 i 93 to lead my own fights, yet again, I behave as a thief. Err bitreich.org 70 i 94 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 95 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 96 I thereby knew the Internet some time before everybody else, still at Err bitreich.org 70 i 97 the age of the Far West, Eldorado, Utopia. At this era, the network Err bitreich.org 70 i 98 was backed by public money (mostly from United States), the life was Err bitreich.org 70 i 99 happier and the electronic sky bluer. We worked all along, among Err bitreich.org 70 i 100 passionated, inventing new computer objects that even Microsoft did Err bitreich.org 70 i 101 ignore, like Linux or the World Wide Web (you know, the three Err bitreich.org 70 i 102 fastidious *w* we have to type in the address of your favorite porn Err bitreich.org 70 i 103 website...) that did not yet exist and that today everybody mistake Err bitreich.org 70 i 104 for the network itself. Err bitreich.org 70 i 105 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 106 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 107 We were far from thinking that some day, we would need a plethora of Err bitreich.org 70 i 108 lawyers to organize the network. That some day, we would need Err bitreich.org 70 i 109 interdepartmental comittees to address of the question. That some Err bitreich.org 70 i 110 day, we would have to put black on white the manners not yet named Err bitreich.org 70 i 111 "netiquette" that seemd all so natural to us. Our only desire, share Err bitreich.org 70 i 112 that formidable invention with the most people, make its apology, Err bitreich.org 70 i 113 attract the most numerous of passionated who shared with us their Err bitreich.org 70 i 114 competency, their knowledge and intelligence. Err bitreich.org 70 i 115 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 116 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 117 I remember that at this epoch, when I was saying "Internet", my Err bitreich.org 70 i 118 friends looked at me as if coming from another planet. When I Err bitreich.org 70 i 119 transfered a file from a computer from one end of of the world to my Err bitreich.org 70 i 120 own machine - by cabalistic commands typed by hand under an interface Err bitreich.org 70 i 121 working without a mouse pointer - the seasoned IT engineers was Err bitreich.org 70 i 122 assisting to the demonstration as to a bad movie: finding a file was Err bitreich.org 70 i 123 taking hours, reading speeds was worth a sick snail and the file often Err bitreich.org 70 i 124 revealed to be unusable... But while a pal entered in my office, I Err bitreich.org 70 i 125 would show him how by typing a single command line I could share, for Err bitreich.org 70 i 126 a ridiculous price, my work, my knowledge, my files or my data with Err bitreich.org 70 i 127 pure strangers and that could live at the other side of the street as Err bitreich.org 70 i 128 the other side of the world. Err bitreich.org 70 i 129 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 130 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 131 Besides from other passionated people, everybody was laughing at me. Err bitreich.org 70 i 132 I could tell them that this thingy would be a revolution for human Err bitreich.org 70 i 133 knowledge, they looked at me in pity and went back to their work. Err bitreich.org 70 i 134 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 135 .PP Err bitreich.org 70 i 136 In the best case, I was told with lucidity "It is a pirate thing.". Err bitreich.org 70 i 137 Some was asking who would that fit, beyond telematic specialists. Err bitreich.org 70 i 138 Other claimed that volontary and free sharing of resources would not Err bitreich.org 70 i 139 have, by definition, any economical future. I was also asked Err bitreich.org 70 i 140 sometimes who would dare to provide such a terrible service. And when Err bitreich.org 70 i 141 I explained them that everything was entirely decentralised, with for Err bitreich.org 70 i 142 only coordination volunteership and good will of all, the same ones Err bitreich.org 70 i 143 was telling me that it could never work at a large scale. Err bitreich.org 70 i 144 . Err bitreich.org 70 i 145 .DS Err bitreich.org 70 i 146 https://www.confessions-voleur.net/ Err bitreich.org 70 i 147 .DE Err bitreich.org 70 .