Lietuvos interneto piratų subkultūra socialinio dalyvavimo aspektu: Torrent tipo svetainės atvejis ; Lithuanian internet subculture by social participation aspect: Torrent site type case
It is not a novelty that the internet and new technologies and their granted possibilities make an impact for a modern society. Thanks to the internet that today we can talk about global, as well as itself internet, internet pirate subculture phenomenon which has become various research object of scientists. Internet pirates are considered copyright infringers who access their activities as the philosophy of freedom approach to all the information. Copying and distributing copyright production without the author's knowledge is considered as the crime compared to theft, so internet subculture name – pirates, is derived from it. On the specifics of this subculture all participants hide their personalities after a variety of invented names and even communicating with each other. While governments where looking to find the ways to control internet piracy activities, naturally where provoked various resistance movements for freedom approach to all the information. By negative opponents, banned "piracy" would damage human's right to information, knowledge, information owners would have to filter traffic, prohibit approaches to illegal information and the internet would lose its' freedom as encompassing whole network or limitless source of information and knowledge function. [.]