As the Web reaches 15 years of existence, James Boyle's Financial Times commentary contemplates an alternate Web ruled by centralized sources or big media. The thought experiment is quite frightening. And in today's age of RIAA lawsuits, DRM, the Sony root kit, etc., one can only marvel that such a technology developed and indeed flourished over the past decade. We are also left to wonder whether such an information revolution can ever be duplicated. [via Copyfight]
As the Web reaches 15 years of existence, James Boyle's Financial Times commentary contemplates an alternate Web ruled by centralized sources or big media. The thought experiment is quite frightening. And in today's age of RIAA lawsuits, DRM, the Sony root kit, etc., one can only marvel that such a technology developed and indeed flourished over the past decade. We are also left to wonder whether such an information revolution can ever be duplicated. [via Copyfight]