by
Anonymous Coward
on
Wednesday May 15, @10:25AM (
#22)
hi
i wonder if the knowbotics can explain to me what 'public domain' is...it seems their critique is about how ISPs somehow restrict the 'public domain' (sic) of the internet
isnt the internet merely a construct developed first by the US military, then wealthy US educational institutues, then by commercial entities? which part of this is 'public' exactly? what about the 4 billion people not connected to the internet...is this still somehow public even though the net is occuped only those that happen to live in wealthy nations?
i am confused here...when the knowbotics say artists need "new instituions" to house artist works...do you mean new data infrastructures? a second internet that somehow is built on public resources and hence is a part of this so called 'public domain'?
what exactly are they on about?
i think what they do, since they have admitted that they could have hosted the port scanning machine in germany to continue the project, is not to point out that there are problems with this 'public domain'...i think what they merely point out is that the particular ISP that the museum works with has a particular contract that it gets all its commercial clients to sign, and this contract, in this particular case, restricts this particular artwork in this particular context...doesnt sound very news worthy to me
maybe the new york times had a slow news day?
dont get me wrong, i like the knowbotics works including this one, but it doesnt really seem like the 'legal bug' is very interesting, the work is good without all this unnecessary do-dah
