Pirates of the Digital Millennium: How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy

It's a war between media conglomerates and teenagers. A battle to the death between billion-dollar tech companies and billion-dollar content providers. It's artists battling artists, nations battling nations.

This book covers it all. Every side. All the implications. The economics. The law. The ethics. The players. And above all, the realities¿including the extraordinary findings of a new 57-country digital piracy research project and fresh survey and focus group research conducted specifically for this book.

The media universe is shaking to its very foundations. One book helps you make sense of what's happened and what's next: Pirates of the Digital Millennium.

The war over digital piracy and intellectual property is being fought everywhere on earth. It's the world's #1 technology story. It just might be today's #1 culture and entertainment story, too.

Now, best-selling authors John Gantz and Jack Rochester take on the subject from every side: culture, ethics, law, business, even geopolitics.

They start with facts, not uninformed opinion: facts drawn from IDC's unprecedented 57-country survey of digital piracy and its impact, as well as fresh focus group and survey research conducted specifically for this book. You'll travel from the streets of Bangkok to the halls of Congress, secret duplicating factories in Paraguay to America's suburban bedrooms. You'll discover what ""fair use"" really means, then sort through the morality of digital copying.

You'll hear every side of the debate. You'll also hear something unprecedented in debates about piracy: some real, fair solutions.

Will big media survive?

Can you sue your customers into submission?

The cultural impact of strict copyright law

Does strict copyright law protect creativity¿or shackle it?

Are we killing our #1 export market?

If we can't export creative content, what can we export?

DMCA: The secret history

Making political sausage: How the Digital Millennium Copyright Act made it through Congress

Eliot Ness or the Keystone Kops?

Law enforcement versus piracy: shoveling against the tide

Through the fog: The future of intellectual property

Sensible ""grand compromises"" that just might work"

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Everything you ever wanted to know about pirates!, 2008-06-08
Gantz and Rochester have created a thorough investigation of the war over the ownership of intellectual property. They draw the reader in with common scenarios of digital piracy and then explain the history of copyright protection and the current debate over ownership of digital media. Moral and legal implications of illegal downloading are addressed as the authors reveal the extensive ripple effect downloading has on the world economy. The authors present complex theories and research in an accessible and entertaining manner. While their arguments may fall on deaf ears of hardcore downloaders, their theories are an essential read for anyone with an open mind to truly understand the impact of digital piracy.


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Jolly Rogers, 2008-06-05
"Pirates" is well writen, I would say exhaustively researched, and insightful. Considering the material, it is an "easy" read. It had me asking questons about my own stance on the limits of copyright laws etc. In 2008, it is still a current source. >Sam


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Pirates of the Digital Millennium, 2008-06-02
Pirates delivers a strong opinion on a very controversial subject. There is so much left unanswered in terms of digital piracy that Gantz and Rochester approach without biasing. It is well-written and packed full of various forms of information and stands, from legal to moral to opinion.


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Digital Pirates Tyler Reynolds UCM and MSU (Go Bears), 2008-05-31
Digital Pirates presents a number of important and relevant questions concerning intellectual property and the role it plays in the growing global society. The larger question is ...is digital piracy wrong? Gantz and Rochester take an unbiased look at all sides of arguments for and against digital pirating from Courtney Love to anonymous college students who have been sued by recording labels. The book pulls no punches and attempts to tell the whole story. From copyright law and its history to the new age and internet sharing. This book has it all.


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A basic guide to digital piracy, 2008-05-31
"Digital piracy is an important issue which needs to be addressed in this age of technological revolution. This book by Gantz and Rochester highlights this point very well.You will learn everything about piracy and how it damages the world at large. I learnt a new word while reading this book "intellectual property", which is very important to the artists and needs to be protected.

This book covers it all. Every side, all its implications and the economics. It talks about copyright laws around the world.
Gantz and Rochester divide their analysis into ten easy-to-read chapters,with interesting quotes at the beginning of each chapter. It is explicitly written and has some diagramatic illustrations that make it interesting.
This book is a must for all those interested in knowing about digital piracy and its implications.

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