Pirate Nation
How Digital Piracy is Transforming Business, Society and Culture
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-7494-6379-3 (ISBN)
Description
The 21st century is awash with pirates, but not the cutlass-wielding, pieces of eight kind. Today's pirates are more interested in hijacking movies, music and video games than doubloons, in subverting traditional business models and copyright, not galleons. Pirate Nation is the remarkable story of modern-day digital piracy, and how it affects business, society, creativity and culture, now and in the future. It traces the origins, methods and motivations of modern-day digital pirates, focusing not just on copyright law or file sharing music, but also game, movie, literary and software piracy. It explores the 'pirate mind' and the rise of the 'free for all' culture. It also investigates international government and industry attempts to clamp down on piracy, and considers how businesses can work with piracy without criminalizing customers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7494-6379-3 (9780749463793)
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Person
Darren Todd is a writer and commentator on digital piracy and copyright law based in Virginia, USA. A keen observer of every aspect of this burgeoning area, he writes a blog on digital piracy and intellectual property issues at www.piracyhappens.net. A frequent contributor to newspapers, he also speaks regularly on every aspect of digital piracy.