1. Media Piracy. An Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. 1. Media Piracy. An Introduction 9
5. Case Studies
6. 2. Evasionary Publics. Materiality and Piracy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 27
7. 3. Piracy on the Ground. How Informal Media Distribution and Access Influences the Film Experience in Contemporary Hanoi, Vietnam 51
8. 4. Honorability and the Pirate Ethic 81
9. 5. Modchips. How Hardware Hacking Constitutes Grey Markets, User Participation, and Innovation 111
10. Toward a Theroy of Media Piracy
11. 6. On the Political Economy of Copy Protection 131
12. 7. Paradoxes of Property. Piracy and Sharing in Information Capitalism 145
13. 8. Reproducibility, Copy, Simulation. Key Concepts of Media Theory and Their Limits 167
14. The Aesthetics of Piracy
15. 9. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds. Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy 183
16. 10. Slashings and Subtitles. Romanian Media Piracy, Censorship, and Translation 207
17. Conclusion
18. 11. The Triumph of the Pirates. Books, Letters, Movies, and Vegan Candy – Not a Conclusion 233
19. Contributors 249
20. Index 251