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   Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 03:35:48 JST Rasmus Fleischer

   The journal Fast Capitalism just published a special section on #Napster's 25th anniversary containing no less than ten articles. Looks interesting:
   https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/issue/view/33
   #p2p #filesharing #piracy #mediastudies #musicindustry #criticaltheory

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     Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 05:41:08 JST Rasmus Fleischer

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     Looked interesting but now I must add that several articles hold such a terribly low standard, typically just heaps of empirical accounts (sometimes correct) of file-sharing history, with some added "big record companies bad" and "capitalism very bad", yet totally liberal arguments like "piracy has nothing to do with stealing" and "piracy doesn't even hurt the bad bad music industry" (implying that subversion is impossible, only moralizing left). It's a painful read (with some exceptions).