J. D. Lasica

Darknet (eBook, ePUB)

Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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 love their TiVo digital video recorders, iPod music players, digital televisions, computers, and other cutting-edge devices. Drawing on unprecedented access to entertainment insiders, technology innovators, and digital provocateurs-including some who play on both sides of the war between digital pirates and entertainment conglomerates-the book shows how entertainment companies are threatening the fundamental freedoms of the digital age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470355473
• Artikelnr.: 49989958

Autorenporträt

J.D. LASICA has written articles for Legal Affairs, the Washington Post, Salon, and The Industry Standard, and he blogs at NewMediaMusings.com. He's also the founder of ourmedia.org, the global home for grassroots media.

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Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Howard Rheingold. Introduction. 1. The Personal Media
Revolution. 2. Now Playing: Hollywood vs. the Digital Freedom Fighters. 3.
Inside the Movie Underground. 4. When Personal and Mass Media Collide. 5.
Code Warriors. 6. Cool Toys Hollywood Wants to Ban. 7. A Nation of Digital
Felons. 8. Personal Broadcasting. 9. Edge TV. 10. The Sound of Digital
Music. 11. Channeling Cole Porter. 12. Architects of Darknet. 13. Mod
Squads: Can Gamers Show Us the Way? 14. Remixing the Digital Future.
Acknowledgments. Notes. Online Resources. Index.

Rezensionen

Rapid-fire advances in technology have transformed home entertainment. Not only can we store hours of television programming and music on hard drives, software has made it easy to create our own movies and songs, splicing and sampling professional-grade material into amateur productions. Entertainment conglomerates are understandably concerned, but in online journalist Lasica's reporting on the culture clash over digital distribution and remixing, corporations are simplistically portrayed as dinosaurs intent on stifling the little guy's creative freedom in order to protect their profit margins. The characterization is not entirely unmerited, but the deck feels unfairly stacked when "Big Entertainment" honchos are juxtaposed with a preacher who illegally copies and downloads movies so he can use short clips for his sermons. Similarly, Lasica infuses the allegedly inevitable triumph of "participatory culture" with a sense of entitlement and anti-corporate bias that he never fully addresses. Lasica's interviews are far-ranging, and he provides a cogent analysis of the broad problems with America's outdated legal framework for dealing with intellectual property rights and the need for the entertainment industry to adapt to new technologies. Too often, though, he falls back to an alarmist tone. With so many other works addressing this issue from both sides, it will be hard for Lasica's book to stand out from the pack. (May 13) (Publishers Weekly, April 11, 2005)