Property-21.

The hacker class has a close affinity with the
gift economy. The hacker struggles to produce a
subjectivity that is qualitative and singular, in
part through the act of the hack itself. The gift,
as a qualitative exchange between singular parties
allows each party to be recognised as a singular
producer, as a subject of production, rather than
as a commodified and quantified object. The gift
expresses in a social and collective way the
subjectivity of the production of production,
whereas commodified property represents the
producer as an object, a quantifiable commodity
like any other, of relative value only. The gift of
information need not give rise to conflict over
information as property, for information need not
suffer the artifice of scarcity once freed from
commodification.

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