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A Reader on International Media Piracy : Pirate Essays /

Piracy. It is among the most prevalent and vexing issues of the digital age. In just the last decade, it has altered the music industry beyond recognition, changed the way people watch television, and dented the business models of the film and software industries. From MP3 files to recipes from Fren...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Baumgärtel, Tilman, 1966- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Media Piracy. An Introduction
  • Case Studies
  • 2. Evasionary Publics. Materiality and Piracy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Reinberg, Yonatan
  • 3. Piracy on the Ground. How Informal Media Distribution and Access Influences the Film Experience in Contemporary Hanoi, Vietnam / Tran, Tony
  • 4. Honorability and the Pirate Ethic / Schwarz, Jonas Andersson
  • 5. Modchips. How Hardware Hacking Constitutes Grey Markets, User Participation, and Innovation / Schaefer, Mirko Tobias
  • Toward a Theroy of Media Piracy
  • 6. On the Political Economy of Copy Protection / Meretz, Stefan
  • 7. Paradoxes of Property. Piracy and Sharing in Information Capitalism / Marshall, Jonathan Paul / da Rimini, Francesca
  • 8. Reproducibility, Copy, Simulation. Key Concepts of Media Theory and Their Limits / Schröter, Jens
  • The Aesthetics of Piracy
  • 9. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds. Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy / Larkin, Brian
  • 10. Slashings and Subtitles. Romanian Media Piracy, Censorship, and Translation / Dwyer, Tessa / Uricaru, Ioana
  • Conclusion
  • 11. The Triumph of the Pirates. Books, Letters, Movies, and Vegan Candy
  • Not a Conclusion / Baumgärtel, Tilman
  • Contributors
  • Index.