A couple of stories back we did a post on Megan Franklin’s peeping cam experience in the UK.

She found a traffiic surveillance unit focused on her bedroom window.

“This is what should be done with all these cameras,” suggests a Reader’s Write.

But before we get to that, recently, “There really is a concerted, world-wide attack against ‘consumers’ launched chiefly by the Hollywood Studios and major record labels, with the software cartels in the wings, and with governments and politicians blatantly colluding,” said p2pnet, noting, ” ‘Conspiracy’ isn’t too strong a word.”

But governments and cartels aren’t the only ones who can conspire.

Are the corporations we keep in bidniz and government crooks we elected running us? And is it getting worse — survival of the unfittest?

I’ve alluded to Fight Club several times, the most recent reference coming in the post mentioned above,which went on Obama, Biden, Holder, and all the rest of them,  “need to be forcibly reminded  they’re no longer dealing with a bunch of mindless, cash cow ‘consumers’.”

Of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, I said >>>

Great book, good movie. Even if it was made by 20th Century Fux.

“Remember this,” Tyler said. “The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on. We’re the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you’re asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges.

“We control every part of your life.”

The executives who run the entertainment and software cartels, and the other corporate control clubs, should have that in neon lights, hanging on the walls in their offices, I said.

I forgot to mention the politicians.

The Net and P2P People Power are the great equalisers.

They need to remember that.

All of them.

We’re also the people starring in spy camera flicks.

The Reader’s Write cited earlier points to Vandalised Gatsos, a Gatso being a Dutch spy camera.

Drivers who are immortalised going over the speed limit have to pay a fine.

The author believes the cams are “solely for raising revenue as I can’t see any other reason for their presence. Most of them are on rural roads with a low speed limit.”

He’s not alone. Many Britons not only agree, but have taken it upon themselves to modify the units, with Vandalised Gatsos featuring examples.

Thecams can also be dangerous, says the site owner, giving as an example a Gatso “immediately behind the 40mph signs on the approach to Tittensor in Staffordshire”.

At this point “the limit drops from 60mph to 40mph, forcing everyone to brake sharply for the camera,” says the site, stressing that in the right hand lane, “the camera is obscured by the sign. So a driver who hasn’t been here before won’t see the Gatso until they are right behind it. This sort of location for a camera just isn’t sneaky, it is down right dangerous with potentially fatal consequences.”

“To my knowledge this is the largest collection of wrecked Gatsos on the internet, and its growing,” says the author.

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