TY - BOOK AU - Baumgärtel,Tilman AU - Dwyer,Tessa AU - Larkin,Brian AU - Marshall,Jonathan Paul AU - Meretz,Stefan AU - Reinberg,Yonatan AU - Schaefer,Mirko Tobias AU - Schröter,Jens AU - Schwarz,Jonas Andersson AU - Tran,Tony AU - Uricaru,Ioana AU - da Rimini,Francesca TI - A Reader on International Media Piracy: Pirate Essays T2 - MediaMatters SN - 9789089648686 AV - P96.E25 R43 2015 U1 - 338.4/730223 PY - 2015///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Mass media KW - Economic aspects KW - Film, Media, and Communication KW - Media Studies KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Business Aspects KW - bisacsh KW - Media Piracy, Globalization, Audience Studies, Transnational Media, Global South N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Media Piracy. An Introduction --; Case Studies --; 2. Evasionary Publics. Materiality and Piracy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil --; 3. Piracy on the Ground. How Informal Media Distribution and Access Influences the Film Experience in Contemporary Hanoi, Vietnam --; 4. Honorability and the Pirate Ethic --; 5. Modchips. How Hardware Hacking Constitutes Grey Markets, User Participation, and Innovation --; Toward a Theroy of Media Piracy --; 6. On the Political Economy of Copy Protection --; 7. Paradoxes of Property. Piracy and Sharing in Information Capitalism --; 8. Reproducibility, Copy, Simulation. Key Concepts of Media Theory and Their Limits --; The Aesthetics of Piracy --; 9. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds. Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy --; 10. Slashings and Subtitles. Romanian Media Piracy, Censorship, and Translation --; Conclusion --; 11. The Triumph of the Pirates. Books, Letters, Movies, and Vegan Candy – Not a Conclusion --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 French celebrity chefs to the jokes of American standup comedians, piracy is ubiquitous. And now piracy can even be an arbiter of taste, such as in the decision by Netflix Netherlands to license heavily pirated shows. In this unflinching analysis of piracy on the internet and in the markets of the Global South, Tilman Baumgärtel brings together a collection of essays examining the economic, political, and cultural consequences of piracy. The contributors explore a wide array of topics, which include materiality and piracy in Rio de Janeiro; informal media distribution and the film experience in Hanoi, Vietnam; the infrastructure of piracy in Nigeria; the political economy of copy protection; and much more. Offering a theoretical background for future studies of piracy, A Reader in International Media Piracy is an important collection on the burning issue of the internet age UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048527274?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048527274 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048527274/original ER -