Re: [ox-en] BUT THIS IS A MUST READ [Fwd: <nettime> The State of Networking (with Florian Schneider)]
- From: Casimir Purzelbaum <quasi utopix.net>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 23:37:57 +0100
* Ref.: »Re: [ox-en] BUT THIS IS A MUST READ [Fwd: <nettime> The State of Networking (with Florian Schneider)]«
* Rich Walker (2004-03-02 02:06)
Hi Rich,
I did not quite understand your comments...
Does it make sense, as a possible way out, to demand a 'cultural
exception' for the digital commons? How can the making of a digital
public domain be pushed out of beta, beyond the usual 'revolution or
reform' choice? The digital commons obviously have left the sandbox
and are out-there, in the wide world. As a 'high potential' meme the
digital commons is growing at a pace way beyond the worthy Gutenberg
project, which, in the thirty years or more of its existence has only
added 10,000 book titles to the public domain. But this is exactly why
digital commons is a potentially fragile concept. It involves risk
After the authors were highly critical early on of all other
commentators, saying they had perhaps got as far forward as the DVD
player, it's interesting to see them repeat the classic error about
Gutenberg.
Can you explain that "classical error about Gutenberg"?
The last I checked, from their website you can get to a quite ridiculous
number of texts that are available *in an accessible manner*. True,
there are a sh*tload of texts that are available by putting the word
"book" into any file-sharing network you care to use, most of which are
*not* legally accessible, but Gutenberg has been ensuring legal access
to text.
What do you mean to say with "*in an accessible manner*"?
Concerning "legally accessible" -- didn't they want to say, that
it was time to promote the overcoming of legal restrictions by an alternative
practice?
Cheers,
Casi.
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