Concentración del mercado digital: condiciones políticas y jurídicas en la actual economía de la información
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The internet, a technology of economic and cultural transformation, is now
commercially centralized. The North American Digital Industry took advantage of the
fact of being pioneers. The current market concentration derives from the promotion
policy in science and technology undertaken by USA since the 1930s. Later on, the neoliberal policy benefited private actors that invested in the digital development: their bet
paid off. The local strategy of combining the protection of intellectual property with
the promotion of free data traffic brought revenues to all those involved; the dominant
actors imposed their political and economic ideology to consolidate and promote its
advantage at a global level