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Loading... Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generationby J. D. Lasica
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. An engaging and informative discussion of technology, politics, entertainment and intellectual property. It suffers somewhat from being five years out of date in that many of the trends it sites as problematic have since resolved (iTunes going DRM free) while new issues have materialized (Amazon's restrictive DRM for eBooks). Still, Lasica's descriptions are interesting and accessible, I would love to read a similar discussion of recent wrinkles in the seemingly endless battle between copyright-owning corporations, and users of digital media.. (  ) amanda_c | Feb 3, 2009 |  I assumed Darknet would just be about the new breed of anonymous peer-to-peer filesharing services and the threat they pose to 'big media' producers. It is about that, covering film, TV, games, and (to a small extent), but the struggle between big media and the broad range of fans and enthusiasts is being fought on a much wider range of fronts - everything from using short clips in church sermons to modifications of games. The breadth of the book is surprising as well as interesting, though it does mean that the book lacks a bit of focus, and the conclusions it leaves you with are perhaps a little to abstract to be practically useful. (  ) djalchemi | Jan 13, 2008 | Excellent introduction into the changes that digital media are bringing to hollywood. Although the writing is dry, the book keeps your interest by shifting back-and-forth between being a description of how electronic media distribution is changing hollywood and and investigation of the "darknet" of hackers creating illegal copies of films. ( ) rmarch2 | Jul 25, 2006 | covfirstpastor | Nov 10, 2005 |  no reviews | add a review
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