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Doug Belshaw reflects on an OER20 presentation with Lauren Heywood, Jim Groom, and Noah Mitchell. " As Jim mentioned in answer to my question at the end of the session, it's like the 'dirty secret' of the internet is that we're all sharecroppers in a rentier economy. Why? Because we can never truly 'own' our address on the internet; we can only ever (as Maha Bali and Audrey Watters have both discussed) pay money to a central registry." As Belshaw notes, a lot of the work on decentralized systems such as IPFS are intended to counteract this. But we're not there yet, and there's a risk that we may never get there.

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