From Cloud to Crowds: Restoring Points of the Peer-to-Peer and Decentralized Internet

Hangwoo Lee ()
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Hangwoo Lee: Chungbuk National University

Chapter Chapter 7 in Affective Capitalism, 2023, pp 149-171 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Focusing on intellectual property rights, file-sharing, privacy, public key encryption, free labor, and cryptocurrencies, this chapter examines the nature of the recent peer-to-peer networking to rebuild the decentralized Internet against cloud computing. Peer-to-peer networking has the potential to decentralize Internet power since it involves sharing intellectual property rather than monopolizing it, utilizing encryption technology for user privacy, and providing monetary compensation for users’ content and data production. In addition, it highlights that peer-to-peer networking spans a wide range of the ideological spectrum, from the broader dissemination of more intact libertarian market relations to the fundamental challenge to the capitalist property regime. It argues that such hybrid orientations result from the original hacker ethic oscillating between commonism and libertarianism and its persistent penetration into the various peer-to-peer networking to return the wealth and value from the cloud to the crowd.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8174-8_7

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