A Reader on International Media Piracy : Pirate Essays.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Media Piracy -- An Introduction -- Case Studies -- 2. Evasionary Publics -- Materiality and Piracy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Yonatan Reinberg -- 3. Piracy on the Ground -- How Informal Media Distribution and Access Influences the Film Experience in Contemporary Hanoi, Vietnam -- Tony Tran -- 4. Honorability and the Pirate Ethic -- Jonas Andersson Schwarz -- 5. Modchips -- How Hardware Hacking Constitutes Grey Markets, User Participation, and Innovation -- Mirko Tobias Schaefer -- Toward a Theroy of Media Piracy -- 6. On the Political Economy of Copy Protection -- Stefan Meretz -- 7. Paradoxes of Property -- Piracy and Sharing in Information Capitalism -- Jonathan Paul Marshall and Francesca da Rimini -- 8. Reproducibility, Copy, Simulation -- Key Concepts of Media Theory and Their Limits -- Jens Schröter -- The Aesthetics of Piracy -- 9. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds -- Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy -- Brian Larkin -- 10. Slashings and Subtitles -- Romanian Media Piracy, Censorship, and Translation -- Tessa Dwyer and Ioana Uricaru -- Conclusion -- 11. The Triumph of the Pirates -- Books, Letters, Movies, and Vegan Candy - Not a Conclusion -- Tilman Baumgärtel -- Contributors -- Index.

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