Menelik Seth

This is the World Wide Web!

Since when did it matter WHERE I accessed content from? I noticed that first it was for licensing constraints; but now, even sites that offer user generated content are adopting this philosophy. Okay, so Veoh offers some network television content; here’s to hoping that they manage to isolate that content from the rest. Until then, I remain bitter. I can only imagine what users that generated content for that site, and were subsequently blocked, must feel like.

This regionalizing of the Internet is starting to tick me off. When my access to certain sites is restricted simply because I am not on the right side of the Atlantic, I can’t help but feel a little short changed. Want me to pay? Fine, I just might, but at least give me some kind of option.

Thankfully for every site that restricts user access, there are sites that offer alternatives. And so long as people are free to share their Information, the information restricted will always remain but a drop in the sea of that which flows freely.

My only complaint now is that these sites, which have blocked me without prior notice, have access to all my registration information in their databases, and who knows how they are benefiting from the data they’ve mined during my various login sessions. My only hope is that any records of my presence on their servers are purged.

Until they change their strategy, I doubt that I will continue to support such sites when I return to the U.S. I just can’t bring myself to agree with restricting access based upon geographical location, for whatEVER the justification might be. There are so many arenas in which such restrictions currently apply; we do NOT need this paradigm to start corrupting our Internet.