Embracing our digital destiny

The AlwaysOn Network just published the final excerpt from "Darknet" the book that I'll be posting online: Embracing our digital destiny. Here's a 10-point blueprint for transitioning from the analog to digital worlds, which I expand on in the piece and in the book:

1. We are users, producers and creators as well as consumers.

2. Artists must be compensated for their works.

3. The public’s digital rights should be affirmed.

4. The DMCA requires a dramatic overhaul.

5. Celebrate participatory culture. Don’t outlaw it.

6. The Darknet is the public’s great equalizing force.

7. The Internet is not an entertainment medium.

8. To make file sharing and the Darknet irrelevant, innovate.

9. Trust the marketplace.

10. Efforts to enrich the public domain should be encouraged.