I was a bit surprised this morning when I found that I was able to real actual newspaper through my mobile phone by chance. This is the world that we are living in now. We can get free music, free movies, free newspaper(not only internet news), free lectures, free books, and so on. It even seems to be an extra work to argue if we can get those free stuff.
I don't necessarily think Wikipedia is one of the main factor to make this free culture happen, but it is certainly one of the important thing we should look at when we think of free culture that we are facing.
People enjoy free culture of Wikipedia getting and editing information that they want. We already discussed that this doesn't come from any physical rewards. Before our technology has as developed as we know it today, there are still information our there, but somehow there are specific people who control the information. However, as technology has developed, it's not someone's possessions anymore. We all can make, edit and share. I think that's the biggest change which made free culture.
With understanding 'remix', the time is getting closer and closer when everything is from everything which means there wouldn't be anything new. When that time arrives, what's the point of owing and having them priced which will never be bought?
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