Well it looks like my infatuation with free usenet services provided by my ISP has been diminished somewhat. Although I still have access to Internode’s Usenet News Service, I will no longer be able to abuse the bandwidth that I’ve become so accustomed to abusing, however, is this really cause for complaint? Perhaps a level of disappointment and sadness or even grief is expected, brought about by a decision to limit the rate by which one can infringe the copyright of the entertainment autocracy, but the sky isn’t about to fall, the heavens are still intact as far as I can tell and there are still are many many more gigabytes of data I can access regardless of freebies. So the level of disappointment can only be proportional to the loss and there is really no loss in potential. Besides you get what you pay for and considering it is a free add on service, it’s of little consequence if it takes 11 hours to download a file or a mere 2 hours.

Time is once again leering at us with its dominance, directing our attention to the knowledge that it awaits for no man nor will it be confined into binary code. Code which seemingly desires to be served upon a magnetised platter, enticing a would be feaster to quench his insatiable and ravenous hunger with a smörgåsbord of intellectual property. As with all abuse, once the cat has been let out of the bag and the crimes have been revealed, the authorities are liable to step in and take action. Once the wheels of the bureaucratic machine are set in motion, the innocent have nowhere left to hide.

Like Kafka’s Joseph K, the right to exist and operate within a freedom that is sold to the consumer in much the same way junk is sold to the junkie, is compounded by the need to understand the law by which the bureaucracy is ultimately in charge of. The process of determining one’s existential right becomes intermingled in an endless battle to reconcile freedom with law and it will almost certainly be an exercise in futility, only because the bureaucracy will hide underneath the law it has created and remain forever out of reach. So the absurd man will arise in light of morning, only to find a new law or legislation and then once again be confined by an inaccessible freedom.