Postcolonial Piracy
- Media piracy is a contested term in the academic as much as the public debate. It is used by the corporate industries as a synonym for the theft of protected media content with disastrous economic consequences. It is celebrated by technophile elites as an expression of freedom that ensures creativity as much as free market competition. Marxist critics and activists promote flapiracy as a subversive practice that undermines the capitalist world system and its structural injustices. Artists and entrepreneurs across the globe curse it as a threat to their existence, while many use pirate infrastructures and networks fundamentally for the production and dissemination of their art. For large sections of the population across the global South, piracy is simply the only means of accessing the medial flows of a progressively globalising planet.
Author details: | Lars EcksteinORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103307 |
Publication type: | Preprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2017/03/21 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2017/03/21 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
DDC classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |