- Getting other people to contribute to your corporation eg. apps. in order to create more revenue
- Open, universal and hopefully free- the web
- Doesn’t seem like a cause that would benefit from being monetized
- Free exchange of knowledge- anything that gets in the way
- Patent trolls
- Internet has a strong hippie background/ culture
- Grateful Dead- rock band that allowed fans to record concerts and bootleg it, they had no concern with copyright etc.
- Gift economy- freely donate stuff with no assumption of getting something in return
- Every single protocol established on the web is owned by nobody
- Protocols are public
- Manners are a social protocol- no one owns them
- Protocols are not private or ownable in the sense of property
- Wikipedia- example of gift economy, entries done for free
- Amazing resources that people can act for free
- Building services that let people do these things rather than just producing the content
- Freely donate information to Facebook- Facebook make billions and we don’t get a cent
- Internet- distributed network
- Unique network
- If protocol was centralized and hierarchic it would fail
- Everything is flat, equally far apart
- I can send an email straight to David Bordwell, don’t have to go through his agent etc
- Internet came out of academia
- Facebook- harvest everything they know about you and sell it to advertising
- RFC- request for comments
- Anybody can respond and comment on an RFC
- We want a new protocol that would….. this is how it should be implemented…. this is why
- Radically different model to everything else
- Overlap between old forms and more recent ones
- Participatory culture- flourished through social media, real practices
- Collaborative practices
- Re-shaping of old forms in new contexts- this is a continual process
- Physical books still exist even though there are E-Books everywhere, cross over, the co-exist
- Restructuring old forms rather than replacing them
- Internalize sense that someone could be watching you, monitoring your own behavior eg. commenting on Facebook