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This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the consequences of digital piracy, using a base model and several extensions (with consumer sampling, network effects, and indirect appropriation). A closer look at market-structure implications of end-user piracy is then taken. After a brief review of commercial piracy, additional legal and private responses to end-user piracy are considered. Finally, a quick look at emerging new business models is taken.

"A collection of texts that takes a broad perspective on digital piracy and attempts to capture the multidimensional impacts of digital piracy on capitalist society today"--

Introduction : property, place, and piracy / Martin Fredriksson & James Arvanitakis -- On decolonising our thinking and cultural exchange / Ingrid Matthews -- Commons, piracy, and property : crisis, conflict and resistance / James Arvanitakis & Martin Fredriksson -- Property, sovereignty, piracy, and the commons : early modern enclosure and the foundation of the state / Sean Johnson Andrews -- Unreal property : anarchism, anthropology, and alchemy / Jonathan Paul Marshall & Francesca da Rimini -- Piratical constructions of humanity : innocence, property, and the human-nature divide / Sonja Schillings -- Mobility in early modern Anglo-American accounts of piracy / Alexandra Ganser -- Compensation in the absence of punishment : rethinking Somali piracy as a form of maritime xeer / Brittany Gilmer -- Commodification of country : an Australian case study in community resistance to mining / Ingrid Matthews -- Privateering on the cosmic frontier? mining celestial bodies and the "newspace" quest for private property in outer space / Matthew Johnson -- "The ancestry land": China's pursuit of dominance in the South China Sea / Jingdong Yuan -- Nuclear testing and the "Terra Nullius Doctrine": from life sciences to life writing / Mita Banerjee -- From biopiracy to bioprospecting : negotiating the limits of propertization / Martin Fredriksson -- Gated housing hierarchy / Franklin Obeng-Odoom -- Pirate places in Bangkok : IPRS, vendors, and urban order / Duncan McDuie-re & Daniel F. Robinson -- The real Gruen transfer : enclosing the right to the city / James Arvanitakis & Spike Boydell -- Epilogue / James Arvanitakis & Martin Fredriksson