The Illusion of the Net Democracy
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 07:13 (2111/9)
''The hype surrounding Web 2.0’s ability to democratise content production obscures its centralisation of ownership and the means of sharing. Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick expose Web 2.0 as a venture capitalist’s paradise where investors pocket the value produced by unpaid users, ride on the technical innovations of the free software movement and kill off the decentralising potential of peer-to-peer production''.
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