Peer to Peer and the Music Industry : The Criminalization of Sharing Paperback / softback
by Matthew David
Part of the Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
- Publication Date:22/06/2010
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- ISBN:9780857025388
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
- Publication Date:22/06/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780857025388