Enclosure

It was interesting to see this short article 1 about the enclosure of the web commons go by after just having listened to The Dig’s epic two part interview with Peter Linebaugh 2. What’s needed is a multi-stakeholder settlement in which large-scale users of the commons take on long-term, structured obligations to sustain it: contractual funding through paid APIs and usage-based levies, formal recognition of DPGs as Digital Public Infrastructure to unlock multilateral co-financing, and a s...