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PEER TO PEER AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF SHARING |
| By: |
Matthew David |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857025384 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857025388 |
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| Publisher: |
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
22 June, 2010 |
| Series: |
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology, history, communication and media studies and cultural studies, Matthew David unpacks the economics, psychology and philosophy of file-sharing. |
| Synopsis: |
Have the music and movie industries lost the battle to criminalize downloading?This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology, history, media and communication studies and cultural studies, David unpacks the economics, psychology and philosophy of file-sharing.The book carefully situates the reader in a field of relevant approaches including network society theory, post-structuralism and ethnographic research. It uses this to launch into a fascinating enquiry into:the rise of file-sharingthe challenge to intellectual property law posed by new technologies of communicationthe social psychology of cyber crimethe response of the mass media and multi-national corporations.Matthew David concludes with a balanced, eye-opening assessment of alternative cultural modes of participation and their relationship to cultural capitalism.This is a landmark work in the sociology of popular culture and cultural criminology. It fuses a deep knowledge of the music industry and the new technologies of mass communication with a powerful perspective on how multinational corporations seek to monopolize markets, how international and state agencies defend property, while a global multitude undermine and/or reinvent both. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
SAGE Publications Ltd |
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Returnable |