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[[File:Dandelion girl.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A young avatar playing on the digital commons yesterday]] | [[File:Dandelion girl.jpg|450px|thumb|center|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 endeavouring 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 it doesn’t start there — as the code she wishes to use in her product, and being its sole value, is freely reproducible toi 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''. Two ways of doing that are by: |