The Piracy Crusade

The Piracy Crusade

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

April 11, 2012

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¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 This site hosts the peer-to-peer review of the original manuscript for The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry’s War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties by Aram Sinnreich.

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 The book was released in December, 2013, by University of Massachusetts Press, which allowed me to post the original draft here for pre-publication and open-review. The draft manuscript with comments will continue to live online here, even now that the book has been published. This entire text is available to access freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 The book is currently available to purchase on Amazon. A free PDF edition will be made available online in Spring, 2014.

¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 Below is the full table of contents, with links to the chapter drafts:

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• Introduction: Piracy Crusades Old and New
• PART I: Lock and Key: Music as a Scarce Resource
• Chapter 1: Stacking the Deck: The Monopolization of Music
• Chapter 2: Riding the Tiger: Why the Music Industry Loves (and Hates) Technology
• Chapter 3: “We’ve been talking about this for years”: The Music Industry’s Five Stages of Grief
• PART II: Who Really Killed the Music Industry?
• Chapter 4: Dissecting the Boogeyman: How Bad is P2P, Anyway?
• Chapter 5: Bubbles and Storms: The Story Behind the Numbers
• Chapter 6: Is the Music Industry its Own Worst Enemy?
• PART III: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Piracy Crusade
• Chapter 7: “This Sounds Way too Good”: No Good Idea Goes Unpunished
• Chapter 8: Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Antipiracy and Civil Liberties
• Chapter 9: Is Democracy Piracy?

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