[lbo-talk] InfoEnclosure 2.0

[Chuck]

This analysis makes some obvious points, but it is mind-blowing in how 
they put it all together. It's too bad they left out iTunes, which is 
Apple's evil contribution to the enclosure of the Internet commons.

InfoEnclosure 2.0
http://www.metamute.org/en/InfoEnclosure-2.0

By Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick

The hype surrounding Web 2.0’s ability to democratise content production 
obscures its centralisation of ownership and the means of sharing. 
Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick expose Web 2.0 as a venture capitalist’s 
paradise where investors pocket the value produced by unpaid users, 
ride on the technical innovations of the free software movement and kill 
off the decentralising potential of peer-to-peer production