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Yes, you can access A Reader on International Media Piracy by Tilman Baumgärtel in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Film & Video. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Media Piracy. An Introduction
- Case Studies
- 2. Evasionary Publics. Materiality and Piracy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 3. Piracy on the Ground. How Informal Media Distribution and Access Influences the Film Experience in Contemporary Hanoi, Vietnam
- 4. Honorability and the Pirate Ethic
- 5. Modchips. How Hardware Hacking Constitutes Grey Markets, User Participation, and Innovation
- Toward a Theroy of Media Piracy
- 6. On the Political Economy of Copy Protection
- 7. Paradoxes of Property. Piracy and Sharing in Information Capitalism
- 8. Reproducibility, Copy, Simulation. Key Concepts of Media Theory and Their Limits
- The Aesthetics of Piracy
- 9. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds. Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy
- 10. Slashings and Subtitles. Romanian Media Piracy, Censorship, and Translation
- Conclusion
- 11. The Triumph of the Pirates. Books, Letters, Movies, and Vegan Candy – Not a Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index