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{{Image|Dandelion girl|jpg|A young avatar playing on the digital commons yesterday.}} | |||
}}The central irony of the [[digital commons]]: since the practical means of separating of [[information]] from its [[substrate]] became available to all<ref>The [[JC]] dates this to the widespread introduction of [[email]], but the fabulous {{author|James Burke}} makes a good argument that it started 200 is years ago with the [[Jacquard loom]].</ref> ''any'' digital artefact — any [[Code is Law|code]] — can be instantly ''and costlessly'' replicated. No consumables, no materials,<ref>Barring a trivial amount of electricity and no I am not including [[Blockchain]] in that sweeping generalisation.</ref> no labour, no storage, no transport cost.Thus: ''problem | }}The central irony of the [[digital commons]]: since the practical means of separating of [[information]] from its [[substrate]] became available to all,<ref>The [[JC]] dates this to the widespread introduction of [[email]], but the fabulous {{author|James Burke}} makes a good argument that it started 200 is years ago with the [[Jacquard loom]].</ref> ''any'' digital artefact — any [[Code is Law|code]] — can be instantly ''and costlessly'' replicated. No consumables, no materials,<ref>Barring a trivial amount of electricity and no I am not including [[Blockchain]] in that sweeping generalisation.</ref> no labour, no storage, no transport cost. Thus: ''problem'': unless someone trying to make money out of the materials she finds lying around on that common can [[Rent|extract ''rent'']] somehow, her profit margins will quickly tend to zero — if they don’t ''start'' there — as the code she wishes to use in her product, and being its sole value, is freely reproducible to anyone else who cares to bend down and pick it up. | ||
Hence, to make money out of the fruits of one’s past digital labours, ''one must seek rent''. Two ways of doing that are by: | Hence, to make money out of the fruits of one’s past digital labours, ''one must seek rent''. | ||
*exploiting [[copyright|antediluvian legal constructs designed to protect intellectual property rights]], though these | |||
Two ways of doing that are by: | |||
*exploiting [[copyright|antediluvian legal constructs designed to protect intellectual property rights]], though these haven’t fared awfully well on the whole, | |||
or | or | ||
* | *creating a practical, and defendable, monopoly. Happily, distributed digital networks lend themselves very nicely to that. Indeed, the fact that the greatest distributed digital network of them all, the internet, ''isn’t'' a monopoly is an irony almost too great to bear. | ||
The honour roll of companies who have made a fortune from the internet coincides exactly with those who have built a defendable monopoly. | The honour roll of companies who have made a fortune from the internet coincides exactly with those who have built a defendable monopoly. | ||
Extracting rent is the “[[Rolling Stones]]” paradigm: Spend fifteen minutes, asleep, writing a guitar riff and monetising it for sixty years. | Extracting rent is the “[[Rolling Stones]]” paradigm: Spend [[Satisfaction|fifteen minutes, asleep, writing a guitar riff and monetising it for sixty years]]. | ||
But there is another way, and it is the modern way of making money in the internet age: ''play live''. Be paid upfront for your unique experience and expertise, each time, to create new products which, once completed, are free for your client to use. | |||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*[[Tragedy of the commons]] | |||
*[[Before the internet]] | |||
*[[OneNDA]] | |||
*[[End-to-end principle]] | *[[End-to-end principle]] | ||
{{Ref}} | {{Ref}} |