https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/has-the-time-to-oppose-the-third-enclosure-movement/2006/08/28 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 08 Sep 2014 08:38:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/has-the-time-to-oppose-the-third-enclosure-movement/2006/08/28/comment-page-1#comment-3982 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:33:32 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=402#comment-3982 s exactly what we’re seeing now. Content generated in and for the commons is being high-jacked by the distribution / service platforms. The P2P foundation is calling this the Third Enclosure Movement. [...]]]> […] It wasn’t fair to say that MySpace merely exploits, and doesn’t give back anything in return, Kantrowitz argued. So much for it being my data!? I’m not a big fan of the Register but they’re really hit the nail on the head this time: It’s all very much in keeping with the new feudal economics of “Web 2.0″: the serfs must be grateful for the hospitality of the proprietor. As PlayLouder’s Paul Sanders noted last week, plenty of people appear to be profiting from digital music – except the people who create it. This looming conflict has a historical precident though, one that dates as far back the 15th Century. Could this just be another instance of history repeating itself The Enclosures… In a more specific historical definition, it refers to the process of the enclosure of common agricultural land in England between the 15th and 19th centuries. They were fundamentally about bringing realms that had hitherto been exempted into the new and expanding commercial relationships that marked the growth of capitalism. Former ways of providing food and sustenance – strip farming, labour relationships based on obligation and deference, widespread access to, and availability of, common land for grazing, hunting and collection of fuel – were denuded and done away with in the name of efficiency, progress and private property rights. That’s exactly what we’re seeing now. Content generated in and for the commons is being high-jacked by the distribution / service platforms. The P2P foundation is calling this the Third Enclosure Movement. […]

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