Re: [ox-en] BUT THIS IS A MUST READ [Fwd: <nettime> The State of Networking (with Florian Schneider)]
- From: Rich Walker <rw shadow.org.uk>
- Date: 02 Mar 2004 02:06:11 +0000
On 29 Feb 2004, auskadi tvcabo.co.mz wrote:
my last post was meant for a pussy cat sorry
BUT THIS IS A MUST READ
Notes on the State of Networking
By Geert Lovink and Florian Schneider
[snip]
Does it make sense, as a possible way out, to demand a 'cultural
exception' for the digital commons? How can the making of a digital
public domain be pushed out of beta, beyond the usual 'revolution or
reform' choice? The digital commons obviously have left the sandbox
and are out-there, in the wide world. As a 'high potential' meme the
digital commons is growing at a pace way beyond the worthy Gutenberg
project, which, in the thirty years or more of its existence has only
added 10,000 book titles to the public domain. But this is exactly why
digital commons is a potentially fragile concept. It involves risk
After the authors were highly critical early on of all other
commentators, saying they had perhaps got as far forward as the DVD
player, it's interesting to see them repeat the classic error about
Gutenberg.
The last I checked, from their website you can get to a quite ridiculous
number of texts that are available *in an accessible manner*. True,
there are a sh*tload of texts that are available by putting the word
"book" into any file-sharing network you care to use, most of which are
*not* legally accessible, but Gutenberg has been ensuring legal access
to text.
cheers, Rich.
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