[Air-l] music 'piracy' groups query

[Heidelberg, Chris]

John:

This is great! Nothing like forward thinking, it must be running rampant
in Minnesota because I understand that there is a book company in
Minnesota that offers free downloads of textbooks that have advertisers.
What a great idea when media consolidation has driven up the costs of
traditional publishing for college students. 

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Andrew -

Thanks for providing a timely opportunity for the following S.S.P.  
(shameless self-promotion). While my new book, "Peers, Pirates, and
Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates" does not directly
address the subterranean groups who are now ripping and circulating
files via P2P networks, it DOES feature chapters on the use of the terms
"piracy" and "hacking/cracking" to describe P2P file transfers.

The text is available for free download at:

http://www.parlorpress.com/logie.html

. . . thanks to my 21st-Century-forward-thinking publisher's approach to
copyright (that's Parlor Press). The eBook circulates under a Creative
Commons license, so you can print it out or  post it on your own
favorite P2P network, and we won't sue. (Also can be purchased between
covers via the big river.)

I hope it is helpful to you or anyone else who happens to be reading.

Best,


John Logie
Associate Professor of Rhetoric
University of Minnesota


On Feb 8, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Andrew Whelan wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> I am researching the groups who 'rip' commercial CDs and vinyl for 
> peer-to-peer distribution and wondered if anyone had come across any 
> reading on this phenomena. The only article I have been able to find 
> addressing this subject specifically is:
>
>
>
> Cooper, Jon, and Daniel Harrison. 2001. "The social organization of 
> audio piracy on the Internet." *Media, Culture and Society* vol. 23, 
> no.
> 1, pp.
> 71-89.
>
>
>
> Any suggestions as to material, especially on audio, or film  
> 'rippers', or
> indeed software 'cracker' groups, would be very much appreciated.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Andrew Whelan
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