It's good that the internet enables exchanges of any kind of content among consenting nodes. Embracing that principle, though, is not the same as liking the results. Some of the packaging choices I've seen almost give me second thoughts about content-neutral networks. People routinely overpackage and underprotect content. I've seen public documents, linked from government Web sites, presented as Microsoft Word-format files—but containing only a pasted-in image of a hard-copy printout. Talk about the worst of all worlds: proprietary, bandwidth-hogging, and not even accessible to indexing or search.
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