#DIGC101 Somalian Pirates We!

Cost of entertainment (music, books, film) remains constant whilst storage and broadband costs decrease.

ISPs being forced to disconnect prolific downloaders. In effect, banning their top customers.

Mp3s are an example disruptive technology.

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2009/02/piratebay-comic.jpg

Napster took off, hitting 25+million users within 1 year.

Moving on to torrents, more efficient, larger file sizes etc. Seeding from a number of users, opposed to Napster’s direct share. Is it rational not to share?

Bloggers uploading material to rapidshare and other ddl services.

Into to superabundance, not enough time to consume all the downloaded content.

Sharing music a gift economy?

Why shouldn’t ‘we’ download illegally? Law, morally wrong. Generating unemployment, leading to diminished content quality…but. A download is not necessarily a lost sale. It has not been demonstrated how it works, ie artificial scarcity. A digital copy is a rivalrous resource.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pirates-buy-more-music

http://torrentfreak.com/illegal-downloads-150x-more-profitable-than-legal-sales-091009/

Piracy, gift economy? Not mediated by commodity form, existed longer than capitalism.

Reverend and the Makers vs Lily Allen http://bit.ly/1aHhdr. Valid points, she is still rolling in the pounds due to increased live music revenue.

Ascii art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/4942/ascii.htm

Torrenting superiority. AXXo, cult hero.

Off topic, great video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqQTODR3kR8