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There's no solution as long as you are dealing with companies whose business is to sell information (the "publishers").

The only winning condition is to deal with people who are willing to exchange information. FOSS, Wikipedia are projects based on this model. They have shown that throwing contributors at the problem can achieve decent results.

Part of the solution is to use a distributed file system for this, so that users who don't contribute to the content however support hosting and transmission costs directly and automatically.

We don't need yet another commercial or non-profit social network. We need non-commercial contribution networks.