How did digital media happen ? Through a unique approach to digital documents, and detailed intricate histories of illicit internet piracy networks, The Digital Culture Industry goes beyond the Napster creation myth and illuminates the unseen individuals, code and events behind the turn to digital media.
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2013

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Allen-Robertson, James

Macmillan Education UK

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Red Globe Press

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

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Through detailed intricate histories of illicit Internet piracy networks, Digital Culture Industry goes beyond the Napster creation myth and illuminates the unseen individuals, conflict and code behind the turn to digital media distribution. By utilising the internet as an archive of digital documents, the author presents unique histories of sites such as MP3.com and The Pirate Bay, and illuminates the software, values and people behind networks such as GNUtella and BitTorrent. By examining topics such as hacker ideology, data rights management and the ownership of digital media, this book demonstrates how our relationship to media objects has been transformed by digital distribution. The book also examines the method behind the work and demonstrates how digital documents can be utilised for historical research. It argues for histories that account for detail, the unintended and the impact that code can have on the trajectory of social change.
Cover 1
Contents 6
List of Figures 8
Acknowledgements 9
Glossary of Terms 10
1 Introduction 12
The trial of the pirate kings 12
This book 14
A far from simple narrative 16
2 Writing a Digital History with Digital Documents 22
The event biography 22
Trawling the archive of archives 27
Digital documents and their discontents 34
3 MP3.com and Napster: The Entrepreneurs of Risk 50
The MP3 50
MP3.com: a new type of music 52
Napster: building a network 55
MP3.com: selling digital 61
Napster: exciting disruption 65
MP3.com: dismantling innovation 70
Myth 73
4 GNUtella: Decentralising the Masses 75
Nullsoft 75
GNUtella 82
Politically decentralised 85
5 FastTrack: The Business of Piracy 87
Zennström and Friis 87
Sharman takes over 93
Grokster (Kazaa and Streamcast) v MGM 96
Incorporating the competition 100
The business of piracy 102
6 BitTorrent: Revolution in the Network 105
Perfect 105
The legitimate BitTorrent 113
The Pirate Bay 120
A piratical ideology 139
7 Hacking the Market 143
Keeping it in the family 143
A hacker’s market 149
8 New Media Gatekeepers 163
Bring in the technologists 163
Codes of control 167
Competing with free 179
The new media gatekeepers 195
9 A History of Digital Distribution 198
A digital culture industry 198
Change 205
Notes 212
Bibliography 215
Index 236
Hackers,Cudotehnike

2025-10-27