file-sharing

Disorderly Conduct: some initial reflections on file-sharing

doll_yoko — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:28:05 +0200

The phenomenon of "peer to peer", or "P2P" file-sharing over the internet is a transglobal expression of techno-social relations. We could say the same about other popular domesticised forms of internet usage, such as email, searches, blogging and photo sharing. However, P2P is different, like the 'special' child who doesn't really fit in with the rest of the family.

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Kaos

doll_yoko — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:44:08 +0200

Frame from opening credits of the film Kaos by the Taviani Brothers

Screen shot of a swarm of peers

doll_yoko — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:52:20 +0200

The Pirate Bay

doll_yoko — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:39:53 +0200

Screen shot of a swarm of peers.

Baa Baa Black Sheep, have you any files?

doll_yoko — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:27:06 +0200

image gleaned from http://www.woodlandkids.com/wk2003/craftsactivities.htm

A peer continues to seed a file

doll_yoko — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:22:06 +0200

The Pirate Google

doll_yoko — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:05:02 +0200

Logo from a recent pro-file-sharing project that takes the the form of a search engine - The Pirate Google.

http://thepirategoogle.com/

From the front page:

The intention of this site is to demostrate the double standard that was exemplified in the recent Pirate Bay Trial. Sites such as Google offer much the same functionality as The Pirate Bay and other Bit Torrent sites but are not targeted by media conglomerates such as the IFPI as they have the political and legal clout to defend themselves unlike these small idependant sites.

Handshakes amongst strangers: P2P and the production of disorder within informational capitalism

doll_yoko — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:44:32 +0200

This is an attached slide-show (with notes)* from my presentation at The Second IT & Disorder Workshop held at the University of Technology, Sydney, on 26 March 2009. I need to work this up into a paper for publication in a uni e-journal very very soon! But I seem to be more devoted to d/l'ing endless stuff 'for research' from my favourite sites.... Anyway this presentation went well, and I felt i had redeemed myself after 2 really embarrassing presentations late last year.

The messy Hydra: developments in transglobal Peer-to-Peer culture

doll_yoko — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:40:42 +0200

Once a minor practice in places of privilege in the global North, internet-enabled file-sharing via peer-to-peer (P2P) systems has evolved into a vast, transglobal activity. Engaging millions of participants, P2P is decentralised, deeply networked, grass roots-driven, polycultural phenomenon growing exponentially. It appears uncontainable, as each wave of technological, legal and commercial measures designed to halt or divert it fail. Moreover, pressure exerted 'from above' by governments and multinational industry alliances becomes a productive force within geographically dispersed, globalised P2P networks and communities. Technical and social innovations are generated 'from below' in order to protect and expand “cultures of sharing,” or “piracy.” Paradoxically, these innovations become mainstreamed as they force corporations to adopt new business models in response to 'market' desires.

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