Hydras on the Intranets
Yesterday a fairly sizeable raid on servers hosted in Europe was conducted by police forces. Officers in Belgium coordinated the raid in multiple other countries including Sweden (of course!), the UK, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, and so on. Interestingly, as TorrentFreak reports, the police actions were directed at SCENE release groups responsible for much of the pirates software, games, audio, and film on the internet. At the... Read More
Peters – Piracy of IP
“Piracy of Intellectual Property.”Statement of Marybeth Peters.The Register of Copyrights before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary. 25 May 2005. U.S. Senate, 109th Congress, 1st Sess. 13 July 2009. <http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat052505.html>. Peters recognizes that it is not realistic to end piracy globally or in the U.S. Two elements in the protection of copyright: a) legal framework that... Read More
DeVoss and Porter – Why Napster Matters to Writing
DeVoss, Danielle Nicole, and James E. Porter. “Why Napster Matters to Writing: Filesharing as a New Ethic of Digital Delivery.” Computers and Composition 23 2 (2006): 178-210. Print. DeVoss and Porter push against traditional disciplinary understandings of authorship and ownership in this essay. Specifically, the authors argue that p2p file sharing in general – and Napster in particular – are representative of a new “digital ethic’... Read More
Shirky – File-Sharing Goes Social
Shirky, Clay. “File-Sharing Goes Social.” Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet.2/15/2010 (2003). <http://www.shirky.com/writings/file-sharing_social.html>. Shirky highlights the RIAA’s “Crush the Connectors” strategy in this article. Specifically Shirky notes how the disintegration of highly networked, multiply linked node systems via RIAA action will work to deter file sharing among groups; however, he also... Read More
Rajagopal and Bojin – Cons in the Panopticon: Anti-Globalization and Cyber-Piracy
Rajagopal, Indhu and Nis Bojin. “Cons in the Panopticon: Anti-Globalization and Cyber-Piracy.” First Monday 9.6 (2004). 2/15/2010 <http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1174/1094>. Rajagopal and Bojin argue that the internet is fast becoming a corporately controlled panopticon that regulates the social, economic, and political relationships between users and corporations. In response to the panopticonization... Read More
