Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Nanorobotics, Cybernetics, Flyball
1 May 2013
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Issues with digital property nov 2: the commons (property that belongs to everyone, open commons: no single person has exclusive control (sea, sky). We have regulations and agreements: limited commons: degrees of regulation (ex. Freeway/highway: capitalism, enclosure and property, enclosure: accumulation by dispossessions, colonization: Destruction of natural economy confiscation of land creation of export-only economy ex. Potosi, brazil mine, over 8,000,000 people died to extract the materials that they mine. Majority world finances industrial revolution for minority north: england in 17th century. Tied to industrial rev, carried out by parliament. Raise taxes, drive farmers off land and into mines. Common property vs enclosure: capitalist property, features. Production of goods by private companies for profit. People put up with bad workplace to pay bills. Opt-in is now out (automatic protection of property, regulates all works now) Threatens idea of private property, from originator server browser. Email makes copies, mp3s are copies, streaming we have to.
