Is There a Shift Over Time?

"There was a feeling you could just do anything back then and like the Napster days I mean still the sites exist." "I think in some ways the open access movement has had some of the biggest successes in the last 10 years things like scyhub, Zlib, Rest in Peace, LibGen. But at the same time there is this sort of closing in these walled gardens the Netflix's the spotifies," he says. He adds that as we have progressed down that historical path my sense of the open potentiality of the future in the digital era feels way less exhilarating felt way less open as it were.

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