The rise in the storage/computing capacity of individual users made possible the appearance and rise of user-based-p2p. I would argue that this is consumer´s/user´s capital. Now, and parallel to a crowdsourcing process we are witnessing how this capacity (user´s capital) could fall into a descendant spiral. As a result users would lose two times: the control over capacity and the benefits that the new possibilities offer.

If “web based network-services” evolve from a corporative driven perspective instead of a user driven approach, users will lose the control over the means of distribution, production and consumption, and these means would again be corporatively monopolized.
Which turn will that process take will probably depend on who is able to provide those services more efficiently (that’s what the economists say).

Here there is an old article on Wired about how companies are targeting cloud-computing resources
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-05/mf_amazon?currentPage=1

I think we, as users, have (still) the capacity to compete in order to avoid corporate monopoly. I would even defend that we have an obligation in this sense.

Ignacio