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Utdrag:
Calle Dybedahl skrev:A week and a bit has passed since the Swedish EU parliament elections. Before and after those, there was (and, I believe, still is) quite a lot of noise about the Pirate Party. What I have seen of that noise in old-style media has focused heavily on the sharing of copyrighted material on the Internet, and if that is wrong or not.
The answer to that question is that the question itself is faulty.
Online filesharing is not a problem. It is, in itself, just a technology that makes something that was once hard very easy. And therein lies the rub.
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what the internet does, at a very basic level, is reproduce and distribute information.
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The threshold for publishing things like this is extremely low. As long as you can get the use of a web browser for a few minutes you can do it.
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There used to be a limit on the number of newspapers that could be printed per day, the number of records that could be pressed, the hours of TV or radio that could be broadcast. Publication used to be a scarce resource. It's not any more. The Internet's capacity to transmit information is so vast and so scalable that this scarcity has gone away.
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Reproduction and distribution of information is no longer a problem.
And that is a problem for the companies that were created to solve the problem. They no longer have a reason to exist!
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They live on information not flowing freely, and therefore they must stop it.