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Ah, I did not see it was you I was replying to. Thanks for the clarification. Sometimes I have difficulty following my own train of thought :) I meant to say '

Ah, I did not see it was you I was replying to. Thanks for the clarification. Sometimes I have difficulty following my own train of thought :) I meant to say 'favour the few over* the multitude' in case it was not clear from my typo. Regarding production/consumption ratio: perhaps the new thing in the mix in the internet era is peer-to-peer technologies which break the hierarchical model. Hence Tor and Bittorrent come under legal scrutiny even though they are ethically neutral?

davidw 13y ago
> Regarding production/consumption ratio: perhaps the new thing in the mix in the internet era is peer-to-peer technologies which break the hierarchical model. How do they do that? To me, those are pretty much entirely distribution technologies. Sure, it's easier then ever to produce more kinds of content and distribute it, but it still takes a lot of skill and effort to produce high quality content. To really get good at something, you'd need to treat it something like a full time job. And therefore, at a certain point, you'd want to be able to rely on it for an income...