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Digital piracy cultures and peer-to-peer technologies combined to
spark transformations in audio-visual distribution between the late
1990s and the mid-2000s. Digital piracy also inspired the creation
of a global anti-piracy law and policy regime, and
counter-movements such as the Swedish and German Pirate Parties.
These trends provide starting points for a wide-ranging debate
about the prospects for deep and lasting changes in social life
enabled by piratical technology practices. This edited volume
brings together contemporary scholarship in communication and media
studies, addressing piracy as a recombinant feature of popular
communication, technological innovation, and communication law and
policy. An international collection of contributors highlights key
debates about piracy, popular communication, and social change, and
provides a lasting resource for global media studies. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Popular Communication.
Digital piracy cultures and peer-to-peer technologies combined to
spark transformations in audio-visual distribution between the late
1990s and the mid-2000s. Digital piracy also inspired the creation
of a global anti-piracy law and policy regime, and
counter-movements such as the Swedish and German Pirate Parties.
These trends provide starting points for a wide-ranging debate
about the prospects for deep and lasting changes in social life
enabled by piratical technology practices. This edited volume
brings together contemporary scholarship in communication and media
studies, addressing piracy as a recombinant feature of popular
communication, technological innovation, and communication law and
policy. An international collection of contributors highlights key
debates about piracy, popular communication, and social change, and
provides a lasting resource for global media studies. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Popular Communication.
It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an
emerging norm of media consumption-especially among young people.
This book provides a critical perspective on this phenomenon,
exploring issues related to file sharing, downloading, peer-to-peer
networks, "piracy," and (not least) policy issues regarding these
practices. Andersson Schwartz critically engages with the
justificatory discourses of the actual file-sharers, taking Sweden
as a geographic focus. By focusing on the example of Sweden-home to
both The Pirate Bay and Spotify-he provides a unique insight into a
mentality that drives both innovation and deviance and accommodates
sharing in both its unadulterated and its compliant,
business-friendly forms.
It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an
emerging norm of media consumption-especially among young people.
This book provides a critical perspective on this phenomenon,
exploring issues related to file sharing, downloading, peer-to-peer
networks, "piracy," and (not least) policy issues regarding these
practices. Andersson Schwartz critically engages with the
justificatory discourses of the actual file-sharers, taking Sweden
as a geographic focus. By focusing on the example of Sweden-home to
both The Pirate Bay and Spotify-he provides a unique insight into a
mentality that drives both innovation and deviance and accommodates
sharing in both its unadulterated and its compliant,
business-friendly forms.
Piracy is among the most prevalent and vexing issues of the digital
age. In just the past decade, it has altered the music industry
beyond recognition, changed the way people watch television, and
made a dent in the buisness of the film and software industries.
From MP3 files to recipes from French celebrity chefs to the jokes
of American stand-up comedians, piracy is ubiquitous. And now
piracy can even be an arbiter of taste, as seen in the decision by
Netflix Netherlands to license heavily pirated shows. In this
unflinching analysis of piracy on the Internet and in the markets
of the Global South, Tilman Baumgartel brings together a collection
of essays examining the economic, political, and cultural
consequences of piracy. The contributors explore a wide array of
topics, which include materiality and piracy in Rio de Janeiro;
informal media distribution and the film experience in Hanoi,
Vietnam; the infrastructure of piracy in Nigeria; the political
economy of copy protection; and much more. Offering a theoretical
background for future studies of piracy, A Reader in International
Media Piracy is an important collection on the burning issue of the
Internet Age.
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