> It's high time we start seeing software understand that data identity as totally severable from data location -- and if our existing tools can't do it, we're gonna start seeing more and more clever hacks like this to make it happen.

I believe it was Alan Kay who said, "names don't scale". We've known about this problem for a half century. wget should be a semi-intelligent software agent, so that we humans can free up mental resources for the truly difficult problems.