Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of by Matthew David

By Matthew David

Have the song and film industries misplaced the conflict to criminalize downloading?

This penetrating and informative ebook offers readers with the right systematic severe advisor to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary assets from sociology, heritage, media and communique reports and cultural stories, David unpacks the economics, psychology and philosophy of file-sharing.

The publication conscientiously situates the reader in a box of proper techniques together with community society conception, post-structuralism and ethnographic learn. It makes use of this to release right into a attention-grabbing enquiry into:

  • the upward thrust of file-sharing
  • the problem to highbrow estate legislations posed by means of new applied sciences of communication
  • the social psychology of cyber crime
  • the reaction of the mass media and multi-national corporations.

Matthew David concludes with a balanced, eye-opening evaluate of other cultural modes of participation and their dating to cultural capitalism.

This is a landmark paintings within the sociology of pop culture and cultural criminology. It fuses a deep wisdom of the song and the recent applied sciences of mass communique with a robust point of view on how multinational companies search to monopolize markets, how overseas and kingdom organisations safeguard estate, whereas an international multitude undermine and/or reinvent both.

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