Peer-to-Peer Governance, Production And Property: P2P As A Way Of Living - Part 1 - 0 views
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Such free cooperation can only be hindered ‘artificially’, through either legal means ( intellectual property regimes) or through technical restrictions such as Digital Rights Management, which essentially hinder the social innovation that can take place.
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The expansion of peer production is dependent on cultural/legal conditions. It requires;open and free raw cultural material to use; participative structures to process it; and commons-based property forms to protect the results from private appropriation.
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In most cases, distribution beats decentralization and centralization as the best way to deal with complexity.
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