File Sharing & Meaning

clipped from copyriot.se A kopimist Walpurgis ritual, and a letter from Bill Drummond File-sharing has a potential to create meaning, community and context – a bigger potential than most other forms of reproduction. We want to keep talking about how that potential can be realized in the best manner possible, how cultural circulation can be organized and how the unleashed forces of the open archives can be used for more than stacking a pile of objects we care less and less about. /…/ The files are already downloaded. The files are already uploaded. They’ve been going up and down and in and out in abundance. Instead of discussion how the forces of winter are going to sell snow to Eskimos, we want to talk about how to extract meaning from this abundance.