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I've been called naive for suggesting this, but I think my critics are just shortsighted. The model must change. The internet must change. Hackers currently have all the power. This is easily demonstrable. If it wasn't, I wouldn't be writing this. Their goals are not nefarious. They are not base enough to do this to scam people for money. If they were, this would of happened already. It hasn't.
I reference Neal Stephenson fairly consistently, and I'm drawing a lot from The Diamond Age, which is one of the greatest books ever written, but the system of distribution has to become distributed. Intellectual property rights must be protected at the level of the artist. It is the only way for the performer to cut the corporate middleman, and reasonably claim right over their product.
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They're base enough to do it for no rational reason at all, attacking random entities now that haven't done anything 'wrong', just because they can.
What's worse: committing a crime with sinister motivations, or committing a crime just because you're fucking bored?
The 'correct' response: the distinction is irrelevant.
"Hackers currently have all the power."
lol? Exactly how? What do they CONTROL, and what are they really changing with said control? That's the measure of power, and it seems to me that measurement is pretty damn modest. You cite a Sony CEO being asked to resign by one investor as evidence of their power? At most he's replaced with another random CEO, Sony blithely continues on as before, and a rich investor is satisfied with his finger-pointing.
That isn't power, it's a mosquito bite that gets scratched because it itches a bit.
And I don't know why you're suddenly bringing up the The Diamond Age plot and its ideas, the hackers and copy-cat hackers (for surely that's what they are now) causing trouble on the internet simply to entertain themselves have nothing to do with those ideas you're discussing. You're trying to draw some connection between the hackers and such high-minded notions? That's your naive romanticism talking.
Smaps, these hackers are just elaborate TROLLS. Can't you see that?
Btw, you read Anathem yet? Great book. The Baroque Cycle is also interesting, more so if you've read Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon previously. (there are some recurring characters/bloodlines, namely Shaftoes and Enoch the Red)