like Amsterdam and France; countries whose commercials have more graphic sex that most Hollywood movies. Even if the government could somehow set up watchdog groups monitoring information passing over the border, huge problems still exist. Currently it would take a task force of thousands to man sophisticated computers to monitor all the data transactions coming into the country. Many of these transactions taking place are now using encryption. This is a technology that scrambles data so only the host and receiving computer can decode it. This would thwart any watchdog group. The very nature of the internet keeps it in a state of dynamic equilibrium. This constant change also works against watchdog groups. Thousands of homepages are moving, going up and going down every day. This makes it logistically impossible for all the pages to be tracked by any agency. In the end, people want most what they cannot have. In the days of prohibition rum-runners smuggled alcohol over the border in defiance of government legislation. The government thought it would bring days of intellectual enlightenment to the people, instead it brought days of bathtub gin. So if the government bans media like this, the net populace will only have a greater hunger for it. The government has an extremely bad track record when dealing with the high-tech community. The government set up the Software Piracy Association to combat the piracy (illegal copying) of programs in the early days of computing. Companies even added copy protection to their software to make it difficult to duplicate. Unfortunately in the high-tech world the safe cracker is infinitely more resourceful than the safe maker. "Hackers" as they loved to call themselves made short work of these strategies. Software companies no longer ad copy protection as they realize that it will be broken easily, some even measure the success of their programs on how much they are pirated. Hackers and all the work they...
