Tech Learning Collective. Originale: How we can win back the Internet by creating lowercase internets, 11 novembre 2020. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Ad aprile del 2001, cinque mesi prima dell’undici settembre, Bram Cohen mise a punto un protocollo di condivisione dei file che, di per sé, cambiò l’industria discografica, televisiva e cinematografica del ventennio seguente….

Tech Learning Collective. Original: How we can win back the Internet by creating lowercase internets. Traduzido para o português por Iann Zorkot. Em abril de 2001, cinco meses antes do 11 de setembro, Bram Cohen começou a projetar um novo protocolo de compartilhamento de arquivos que mudaria quase sozinho a face das indústrias de música,…

Trump lost. Last weekend we celebrated the electoral defeat of a US president undeniably behaving as an openly fascist dictator. Yet we must remember that elections are for choosing the targets of our political pressure, not for choosing our saviors. Only we the people, not the president-elect, can meaningfully bring that pressure to bear. The…

In April 2001, five months before 9/11, Bram Cohen began designing a new file sharing protocol that would almost single-handedly change the face of the music, TV, and movie industries for the next two decades. The technology was not in itself a completely new idea. After all, similar technologies like the well-known File Transfer Protocol…

Discussions of technological change in the media are generally coupled with discussions of technological unemployment and the increasing polarization of wealth. A good example is a piece by Eduardo Porter in the New York Times (“Tech Leaps, Job Losses and Rising Inequality,” April 15). Amid talk of all the technological wonders issuing from Silicon Valley,…

C4SS has teamed up with the Distro of the Libertarian Left. The Distro produces and distribute zines and booklets on anarchism, market anarchist theory, counter-economics, and other movements for liberation. For every copy of Kevin Carson‘s “The Homebrew Industrial Revolution” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage. Support C4SS with Kevin Carson‘s “The Homebrew Industrial Revolution“. $20.00 for the…

In the late 19th century, the decentralizing potential of the Second Industrial Revolution — the introduction of electrical power into industry — was a common theme in social analysis. The idea was that electrical power was destroying the technical rationale for large factories. The main reason for the Dark Satanic Mills of the First Industrial…

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