Week 7

SHARING CULTURE: PEER TO PEER TECHNOLOGIES
PUBLIC NOISES!!!
In the article, the author raises the argument of how global electronic technologies have changed everyday people's concepts of communicating. Nowadays, people have so many choices to satisfy their demands on communications; and it is so easy to seek for this dynamic devices out there. Also, the possibility of relating one person to another in this technology world is so huge. Therefore " the act of saying "why cant we share music with millions of people around the world?" or "why cant we coordinate mass demonstrations with thousands of people we have never met? "...has had profound consequences". Truly, I see, this is no more an "act of saying", this has become an activity we have been involving for many years. Youtube videos have been sharing widely and globally; there are hundreds of thousands free online links and websites that once we have an internet access, we can give and take information with zillions of people around the world. NO matter it is gossip or politics, economics global electronic networks make widespread anarchistic activity possible. This is called ' peer-to- peer communications'! Now, information from private to public is being spread out so easily and quickly and it is so out of control. I am not sure to say anarchy is a bad thing because in fact, this kind of communication is so easy and it gives me so many options to fit my timetable and work. In short,  anarchy is flexible and enjoyable. It could give individuals so many benefits;  but in contrast, it gives governments and such leaders a hard job to complete to get control over information because there are a lot of problems causing by internet: violence or the maintenance of property and authority. Internet and technologies overall are parts of globalization; and talking about globalization, we cannot ignore the existence of money ( economics). Information is for free?  Not! its a commodity which we sell and buy. Intellectual property therefore is a big issue as we sell/buy music, movies and many other sorts of arts via the internet and it is out  of control as information is so much out there and out of control on the online world.
 Yes, we are living in a "communist culture" where peer to peer technologies are the central of the culture. It sounds very doable and flexible as an idea of communist (i think!)  but it has so much conflict with capitalization (globalization)  and we do need time and pressure to solve the problems because this sharing culture is actually a threat to our society with its on going debate with authorship and such things.