anyminutenow:
Usenet is replaced by Yahoo! Groups, email is replaced by Facebook, Napster is replaced by iTunes. IRC by Skype, all funded by great accumulations of wealth and firmly in the hands of the ruling class.Dmytri Kleiner
Day by day, communications systems are becoming more and more centralized and exclusively mediated. The role of peer to peer technology, the core breakthrough of the Internet, is more and more a contraband technology, a technology for criminals, pirates, rebels, maybe even "terrorists."