# kaal:claim:3782217-024

**Claim.** Contrary to the common fear, wide scale decentralization of media power will not collapse centralized corporations, just as Napster and BitTorrent did not collapse the centralized music companies; decentralization does not take power from centralized actors, it increases everyone's power.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- incumbents willing to participate in the new collaborative networks

**Source quote.**

> Wide scale decentralization of power in the media will not collapse the power of centralized corporations, any more than file sharing services like Napster and Bit- Torrent6 collapsed the power of the centralized music companies.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of History In Decentralization* (2021), News and education, page 9

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

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**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** decentralization, incumbents, file-sharing, positive-sum, media

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