Comment Digital Feudalism (Score 4, Insightful) 32
Digital media could have made most knowledge freely available to all. And of course its being abused to make the rich even richer - clearly monopolies are one of the most efficient mechanisms of wealth extraction, so most forms of physical ownership are being subsumed into rental models with increasingly constrained rights and entire new revenue models. Many fronts here - physical vs. streaming media, eBooks, DRM on any embedded systems, right to repair. Libraries are just one of the casualties of the war on ownership by the common man. Related - RIP Aaron Swartz, and Alexandra Elbakyan should be nominated for a Nobel.