Sharing: Crime Against Capitalism
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Sharing: Crime Against Capitalism? -- Alternative Business Models or Alternatives to Business? -- The Economics of Sharing and of Capitalism -- The Structure of the Book -- What Sharing? And (more to the point) What is Sharing? -- 2 Libraries and the Digital World -- Introduction -- Information: Culture or Capital -- Literacy, Education and Libraries -- Digital Revolutions One and Two -- Internet and Access -- Digital Commons: The Anarchist in the Library -- Orphan Works: The Capitalist in the Archive -- Libraries as Records of Ownership and/or the Common Heritage of Humanity -- Plagiarism vs. Piracy -- From Scarcity to Authority -- Conclusions: Free Culture or Fee Culture -- 3 Peer-to-Peer Music Sharing Online -- Introduction -- From CDs to Napster: The Rise of Peer-to-Peer -- From Napster to Now -- The Myth of The Recording Artist (Then and Now) -- The 'Romantic' Myth of the Recording Artist -- Why Sign? -- Why Not Sign? -- The Rise of Live -- Adaptive (iTunes and Spotify) vs. Alternative (Sharingand Selling-Based) Business Models -- Conclusions: Reversing the Menu and the Meal -- 4 Live-streaming and Television Rights Management -- Introduction -- The First Digital Revolution in Television: Pay-to-View Enclosure -- The Second Digital Revolution: Free-Sharing Livestreams -- Justin.TV, First Row Sports and Wiziwig: Network Enterprises and their Users -- Sky's the Limit? The Limits of Power and Counterpower -- Conclusions: Power and Counterpower in Digital Networks -- 5 Open-Source Software and Proprietary Software -- Introduction -- The Spirit of the Information Age: Hackers, Rebel Code and Play Struggle -- Digital Rights Management -- Peer-to-Peer Software -- Non-Profit Organizations in the Information Economy -- Computer Games