Piracy leakages from modernity

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of acronyms -- Ontology -- The pirate imaginary and the potential of the authorial pirate / James Meese -- To name a thief : constructing the deviant pirate / Virginia Crisp -- "You can't change our ancestors without our permission" : cultural perspectives on biopiracy / Daniel F. Robinson, Danielle Drozdzewski and Louise Kiddell -- Piratical community and the digital age : the structural racialization of piracy in European law and culture / Sonja Schillings -- Politics -- Modernity, law and the violence of piracy, property and the state / Sean Johnson Andrews -- "Pirates" in EU's (semi)peripheries : a comparative case study on the perceptions of Poles and Greeks on digital file-sharing / Yiannis Mylonas -- The ipr gpr : the emergence of a global prohibition regime to regulate intellectual property infringement / Lucas Logan -- Bittorrent : stealing or sharing culture? : a discussion of the pirate bay case and the documentaries "Steal this film" I & II / Ekin G -- The internet between politics and the political : the birth of the pirate party -- Mariacristina Sciannamblo : cultural resistance or corporate assistance: disenchanting the anti-capitalist myth of digital piracy / You Jie -- Practices -- The justification of piracy : differences in conceptualization and argumentation between active uploaders and other file-sharers / Jonas Andersson and Stefan Larsson -- Set the fox to watch the geese : voluntary IP regimes in piratical file-sharing communities / Balízs Boda -- Pirate economies and the production of smooth spaces / Pavlos Hatzopoulos and Nelli Kambouri -- The collaborative production of amateur subtitles for pirated tv shows in Brazil / Vanessa Mendes Moreira De Sa -- After piracy : reflections of industrial designers in Taiwan on sustainable innovation / Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin -- Piracy is normal, piracy is boring : systemic disruption as everyday life / Francesca da Rimini and Jonathan Marshall -- Postscript / Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle -- Author biographies.

"A collection of texts that takes a broad perspective on digital piracy and attempts to capture the multidimensional impacts of digital piracy on capitalist society today"--