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Business & Management<br />
03-Nov-2011<br />
£16.99<br />
isbn 9780749463793<br />
ebk isbn 9780749463809<br />
256 pages<br />
PB, 234 x 156<br />
Business & Management<br />
Pirate Nation<br />
20ptgap<br />
Darren Todd<br />
The 21st century is awash with pirates, but not the cutlasswielding,<br />
pieces of eight kind. Today’s pirates are more<br />
interested in hijacking movies, music and video games than<br />
doubloons, in subverting traditional business models and<br />
copyright, not galleons. Pirate Nation is the remarkable<br />
story of modern-day digital piracy, and how it affects<br />
business, society, creativity and culture, now and in the<br />
future. It traces the origins, methods and motivations of<br />
modern-day digital pirates, focusing not just on copyright<br />
law or file sharing music, but also game, movie, literary and<br />
software piracy. It explores the ‘pirate mind’ and the rise<br />
of the ‘free for all’ culture. It also investigates international<br />
government and industry attempts to clamp down on piracy,<br />
and considers how businesses can work with piracy without<br />
criminalizing customers.<br />
Darren Todd is a writer<br />
and commentator on digital<br />
piracy and copyright law<br />
based in Virginia, USA. A<br />
keen observer of every aspect<br />
of this burgeoning area, he<br />
writes a blog on digital piracy<br />
and intellectual property<br />
issues at www.piracyhappens.<br />
net. A frequent contributor to<br />
newspapers, he also speaks<br />
regularly on every aspect of<br />
digital piracy.<br />
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