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Todd Suomela

Why Share in Peer-to-Peer Networks : Deep Blue at the University of Michigan - 0 views

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    We explore two possible explanations: private provision of public goods and generalized reciprocity. We investigate a particular form of private incentives to share content: redistributing traffic in the network to the advantage of the sharing peer.
Todd Suomela

Upsetting the oil drum | The Agonist - 0 views

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    it means not only a radically different structure of the economy, but a change in who runs American industry. And this is what the current political order is fighting to the death.
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    More political than commons related, but connected to the question of energy and resource usage and power.
Todd Suomela

On the Erosion of the Public Domain - john wilbanks' blog - john wilbanks' blog on Natu... - 0 views

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    The public domain is not contractually constructed. It just is. It cannot be made more free, only less free. And if we start a culture of licensing and enclosing the public domain (stuff that is actually already free, like the human genome) in the name of "freedom" we're playing a dangerous game.
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org » How We Bought the Idea of Bottled Water - 0 views

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    pointer to book review at NYT
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org » Risk, Inequality and the Economics of Disaster - 0 views

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    Marcellus Andrews explains how climate change will force us to confront the inequalities that market fundamentalism produces.
Todd Suomela

Yahoo didn't mean to censor emails about Wall Street protests. The truth is much more i... - 0 views

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    Unfortunately, thoughtless automation is driving the day. If we don't get off this train, it might have the same results it has had in other sectors of the economy: an unsustainable economy with high unemployment-and a lot of cheap, plastic crap.
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org » Art, God and Copyright - 1 views

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    Two examples of copyright and religion in conflict: Indonesian batik designers, and sermon sharing sites.
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