Quote Originally Posted by mailmann006 View Post
I am curious to see what will happen in the near future. I am actually quite excited to see how the internet as a whole will react and evolve from these recent events. Many times after crushing online failures, the people reunite as a mass and bring far better things into play than were there in the first place. I believe that this will once again bring the hard-core online community together as a whole and perhaps we will be the first people in history to see a true online revolution. The internet as we know it may be grinding to a sorry demise, but something far greater will no doubt surpass it when it goes. I'm actually kind of psyched about the thought of being able to tell the story of the rise and the fall of the traditional internet to youngsters in a decade or so.
Well, I am kinda enew to this, but when this shutdown thing started,
one of the first words that came to my mind was "revolution".
(I cannot say I am "psyched" about this though, I mean, I never uploaded a thing,
but I can see how troublesome this is for the people who did, or even paid for that.)
But yeah, it is probably going to be interesting in the long run, I guess...

Quote Originally Posted by Majinkura View Post
i agree,especially for RARE/import ps2/etc games that are no longer in production.
this is the main reason why i don't buy anything new anymore...except for pc..but that might also change if the internet dies.
(the wii was my last console.)
Hee, my last console was the Nintendo 64!
(And it was stolen from me before highschool... long story... )

Anyway, if for some reason the "revolution" will lead to a restrictive Internet, well, I must say then:
too bad for the big companies anyway, because I will not buy anything from them.
The reason? No money for that at all! So, it will not change a thing for them as they will
not receive extra profit (at least regarding myself) so the only thing that will change is my mood.

Now that I think of, this all seems like "bullying" to me, you know?
(They are just taking the candy of the impotent ones and tossing it on the ground just for "fun"... )