{"product_id":"the-piracy-years-holger-briel-9781802070545","title":"The Piracy Years: Internet File Sharing in a Global Context","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Piracy Years: Internet File Sharing in a Global Context\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection to provide an overview of digital piracy's recent past and its potential futures. Combining research essays, interviews, and overviews, the volume brings together leading scholars and infamous digital pirates from China, Germany, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn June 1999, the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing website Napster transformed the availability of online content, but the site was quickly sued into oblivion. Despite the highly publicised shutdowns of a number of P2P websites, many continue to thrive, and digital piracy has become a global phenomenon. This book argues that any future media theory and research will have to contend with such web practices remaining an integral and politically formative part of the Internet. Offline and online piracies thrive on technological affordances in opposition to corporate efforts - in music, film, publishing, and academia - to label them as threatening to the economy and society. Therefore, this book explores piracy as a phenomenon navigating the conventions, norms, and boundaries of legality in digital cultures. Pirate networked sociabilities work within and outside the fringes of market economy through the lens of institutional and discursive power. By creating new ways that keep society moving and from stagnation, they ensure its continued existence - including the survival of the very areas they attack.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Piracy Years \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential resource for researchers, post-graduate students, and anyone interested in the global spread and ever-increasing importance of digital piracy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Holger Briel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1802070540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781802070545\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Xjtlu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.10w x 1.20d","brand":"Holger Briel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45898618962175,"sku":"9781802070545","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06f868f3-e0ac-4106-ac9b-2e4d344867af.jpg?v=1721376741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-piracy-years-holger-briel-9781802070545","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}