Whiners, mercenaries and alternatives
Large telecommunications companies, copyright stock owners and some content producers complain that large centralized content sites now concentrate a large share of Internet usage, creating unbalance in the traffic. These centralized sites are accused of free riding without contributing to financing infrastructures nor remunerating artists (read producers and distributors). Mercenary politicians sing the same song and plan to destroy the good properties of the Internet (neutrality, equitable service and peer-to-peer architecture where intelligence and innovation lie at the periphery. Whiners and mercenaries list Facebook, Google (read YouTube), Spotify ou Megaupload as examples. This triggers three remarks: * The complaining parties powerfully contributed to install the situation which now claim to deplore. Conducting a stubborn war against the distributed sharing of digital works between individuals, in particular its P2P form, they are among those to blame for the increased concentration of Internet usage on a few centralized sites. They also are to blame for part of the development of streaming, this impoverishing form of access to culture that turns the Internet into a TV (or radio + advertising)2. ... more at: http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?p=2807&lang=en
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Philippe Aigrain