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Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation
by
J.D. Lasica
"An indispensable primer for those who want to protect their digital rights from the dark forces of big media."
-Kara Swisher, author of aol.com
The first general interest book by a blogger edited collaboratively by his readers, Darknet reveals how Hollywood's fear of digital piracy is leading to escalating clashes between copyright holders and their customers, who...more
-Kara Swisher, author of aol.com
The first general interest book by a blogger edited collaboratively by his readers, Darknet reveals how Hollywood's fear of digital piracy is leading to escalating clashes between copyright holders and their customers, who...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
May 2nd 2005
by John Wiley & Sons
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I really enjoyed this somewhat dated book about hollywood's fight against p2p networks. The second half of the book was definitely MUCH better. Soooo, if you can get through the 100+ pages, you are in for a decent read. After he tackles the movie industry, he goes on to explore the music and games industries as well.
Basically, p2p networks have taken off as Hollywood has tried as hard as they could to influence legislation to prevent consumers from viewing movies how, when and where...more
Basically, p2p networks have taken off as Hollywood has tried as hard as they could to influence legislation to prevent consumers from viewing movies how, when and where...more
Still reading this but I'm fining it to be pretty disappointing and may end up putting it down. The Chapter where he interviews the movie downloaders was great. But the chapter where he insists that just because there's cheaper camcorders and editing software that there will be a lot more Spielbergs and Coppolas out there is just bad. Yes there will be more film makers, and they will come from new places, but as much as I enjoy the "piano playing cat," I don't think it's really the ...more
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The book has aged better than expected. I was prepared to skip though story after story on the RIAA and MPAA suing college students and housewives or installing rootkits. Thinking back to 2004-2005, the idea of DVDs and Netflix were still new technologies for most of America (Google had yet to release their beta of Google books when this was being written). So it's pretty amazing how relevant parts of this book still are.
What I enjoyed was that Lasica let hits interviewees speak without to...more
What I enjoyed was that Lasica let hits interviewees speak without to...more
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