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Pirates of the Digital Millennium How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy

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ISBN-10: 0131463152

ISBN-13: 9780131463158

Edition: 2005

Authors: John Gantz, Jack Rochester

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From Napster to David Bowie and the destruction of the music industry...An expose on the fight over intellectual property. - Reveals how America's greatest export: It's intellectual property, is being stolen and what can be done about it. - Takes on the subject from every side: consumers, business, law, ethics, even geopolitics. - By best-selling authors and technology experts John Gantz and Jack Rochester - authors of The Naked Computer.
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Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: FT Press
Publication date: 9/20/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.57" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Preface
Are You a Digital Pirate?
Intellectual Property and the Concept of Copy Rights
Sidebar: What Is "Fair Use"?
Copying and Virtue: A Short History
I Sing the Copy Electric
Recording, from A to V
Is It Live or Is It Memorex?
Copying and Convenience
The Empire Strikes Back
Even Better Than the Real Thing?
Sidebar: The End-User License Agreement
Meanwhile, Back on the PC
The Digital Black Market
Are You a Digital Pirate?
Is It Copyright of the Right to Copy?
The First Known Copy Pirate
The First Copyright
The Scottish Pirates
Copyright As Politics and Business
100 Years of American Piracy
The Quintessential American Pirate
The Idea of Copyrighting Ideas
A Borrower Be: Understanding Fair Use
The Expanding Universe
Sidebar: The Music Industry's Woes
Where Are We Today?
Us Against Them?
If We Are Us, Who Is Them?
What's a Little Rip, Mix, Burn Among Friends?
Music Is the Soul...of Piracy
A Pirate's Argument
Sidebar: Music CD Sales: An Industry View of Where the Money Goes
Sidebar: Music CD Sales: Courtney Love's View of Where the Money Goes
Which Camp Are You in?
Inside the Corporate Intellect: A Day at Microsoft
Why Microsoft?
The Birth of Microsoft Office 2003
Plan, Write Code, Test; Plan, Write Code, Test
Knowing When to Quit
Microsoft as Microcosm
The Legal Beagles
Fighting Spam
The Tests of Time
Getting Help From Watson
Harnessing Genius
Piracy's Long Shadow
Inside the Sausage: The Making of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Antecedents to the Dmca
The Pieces Start to Fall into Place
The Dmca is Born
The Dmca Dissected
Sidebar: The Strange Case of Ross Plank
I Got 20 More Years, Babe
What Hath the Dmca Wrought?
Sidebar: Six Questions on Copyright for Jonathan Zittrain
The Bell Tolls, But for Whom?
Desperately Seeking Libra
Global Fallout
How Bad is Piracy?
The Hidden Costs of Software Piracy
Are These Numbers Real?
What Drives Piracy?
Who Gets Hurt?
An Economic Argument for Piracy
Why Don't Governments do Something?
The Rule of Law
The Global Push to Lower Piracy
What's the Global Fallout?
Dude, Where's My MP3?
The Dawn of MP3 downloading
Sidebar: Digital Copying: The Legal and the Illegal
How MP3s are Shared
An Anatomy of Downloading
The Darker Side of Downloading
The Power of Youth
The Techno-Elite
View From the Street
It's Not Just MP3s
Student Economics
Internet-Based Information is Real Power
Ethics From Without
Are New Moral Ground Rules Needed?
Eliot Ness or Keystone Kops?
A Music Industry Offensive
Where are the Cops When You Need Them?
Chasing Buccaneers
Chasing Buccaneers Abroad
Chasing A Mirage
Deputizing the Businessman
Notice and Takedown
The International Black Hole
The Ongoing Arms Race
Sidebar: Does Downloading Actually Hurt CD Sales?
An Uphill Push
Angel on my Shoulder: What's in it for Me?
Technology or People: Who's Running the Show?
Asking Tough Questions
An Ethical Quandary
What's in it for Governments?
What's in it for Businesses?
Sidebar: BSA's Recommended Corporate Software Policy Notice
Facing up to the Ethical Issue
Sidebar: Street Ethics
The Ethical Climate
Through the Fog: The Future of Intellectual Property
We're Locked in a War No One Can Win
Copyright Laws Won't Go Away, Ever
Piracy Has Changed the Relationship Between Media Buyers and Sellers
It's About Capitalism, Stupid
Laws and Case Law Will See-Saw
Globalization Creates the Common Denominator
Decriminalzing the Kids Should Be a Top Priority
Give a Little to Get a Little
Ethics Are Important
The Next Few Steps
Possibilities from the Fringe
What Should Happen?
Afterword
Index