[lbo-talk] InfoEnclosure 2.0

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

On 2/14/07, Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:
> 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

Did the authors write this intro? The article itself is more measured.
Many Web 2.0 companies are happy to pay you $1 if that means they can
make $5. (For example, take Google's Adwords, or its recent Youtube
profit-sharing announcement at Davos.)

But definitely an interesting point: "access to the commons and
membership in the peer group must be extended as far as possible
toward the inclusion of a total system of goods and services." Insofar
as an activist tech business pursues a dual-power strategy, this
sounds like a pretty necessary step...

Tayssir