Peer to Peer and the Music Industry

The Criminalization of Sharing

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

AvMatthew David

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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-sharing
the challenge to intellectual property law posed by new technologies of communication
the social psychology of cyber crime
the 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-06-22
Mått156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt320 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePublished in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Antal sidor200
Upplaga1
FörlagSAGE Publications
ISBN9780857025388

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Matthew David is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science at Durham University, and has undertaken research in the areas of new social movements, online data-services in higher education, online training in rural areas and forms of free online music sharing. He is author of Science in Society (Palgrave 2005) and Peer to Peer and the Music Industry (SAGE 2010), and co-author of Social Research (SAGE, latest edition 2011).

IntroductionThe Global Network Society: Territorialization and DeterritorializationFile-Sharing: A Brief HistoryMarkets and Monopolies in Informational Goods: Intellectual Property Rights and ProtectionismLegal GenealogiesTechnical Mythologies and Security RisksMedia ManagementCreativity as Performance: The Myth of Creative CapitalAlternative Cultural Models of Participation, Communication and Reward?Conclusions

[T]his superb book explores the many aspects of the debates surrounding the emergence of the peer-to-peer file-sharing phenomenon and subsequent attempts at control of both the technologies and consumer... The result is a wide-reaching, highly incisive work that should be on the reading lists of any music, media and culture courses... [A] brilliant examination of the criminalisation of culture understood through the context of the contradiction between profitability and the potential suspension of scarcity.