The John Perry Barlow Paradox

I've been saying in various ways for a while that the conceptual model of the Internet is to transfer control of our information environment from the producer to the recipient. Its invested in the whole structure and process of the Internet, down to the protocols, or up from them, whichever way you view it. Now Eric Norlin has come up with a name for it; The John Perry Barlow Paradox which, in a nutshell, holds that "The Internet, in its current form, moves everything that touches it toward the public domain." Of course. If each individual user of the net increasingly controls their information environment, then effectively the control has shifted to the commons, locking it away becomes progressively harder and, as I also hold, profits are significantly generated from control. This undermines many business plans and corporate strategies; a reality that many companies, especially media businesses have not fully awoken to yet. There are a heap of links on this subject at the moment, I'll pull some together.