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Ars Electronica 2008: A New Cultural Economy
(Linz, 17 June 2008) Every day, we click our way through the virtually endless expanses of the Internet teeming with texts, images, songs and videos.
True to the motto “Do as you like,” we hunt and gather files here and there during the course of our digital foraging and store them on our own hard drives. Files that are the property of somebody or other and, strictly speaking, remain such. Put online, anyone in the world can access them, and, needless to say, that’s exactly what they do without giving much consideration at all to issues like data protection and copyright. And while established lobbies are campaigning against this wholesale data theft, a young generation has come to recognize this as the business of the future.
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