{"product_id":"digital-pirates-alexander-sebastian-dent-9781503611443","title":"Digital Pirates: Policing Intellectual Property in Brazil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDigital Pirates\u003c\/i\u003e examines the unauthorized creation, distribution, and consumption of movies and music in Brazil. Alexander Sebastian Dent offers a new definition of piracy as indispensable to current capitalism alongside increasing global enforcement of intellectual property (IP). Complex and capricious laws might prohibit it, but piracy remains a core activity of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombining the tools of linguistic and cultural anthropology with models from media studies and political economy, \u003ci\u003eDigital Pirates\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the dynamics of IP and piracy serve as strategies for managing the gaps between texts-in this case, digital content. Dent's analysis includes his fieldwork in and around São Paulo with pirates, musicians, filmmakers, police, salesmen, technicians, policymakers, politicians, activists, and consumers. Rather than argue for rigid positions, he suggests that Brazilians are pulled in multiple directions according to the injunctions of international governance, localized pleasure, magical consumption, and economic efficiency. Through its novel theorization of \"digital textuality,\" this book offers crucial insights into the qualities of today's mediascape as well as the particularized political and cultural norms that govern it. The book also shows how twenty-first century capitalism generates piracy and its enforcement simultaneously, while producing fraught consumer experiences in Latin America and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Sebastian Dent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503611442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503611443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Alexander Sebastian Dent","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065660027135,"sku":"9781503611443","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2b897ac3-983a-4b74-9cfc-6e04e442ce83.jpg?v=1768676435","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/digital-pirates-alexander-sebastian-dent-9781503611443","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}