Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262072823 | edition 2007 | PDF | 420 pages | 11,2 mb
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262072823 | edition 2007 | PDF | 420 pages | 11,2 mb
While the public and the media have been distracted by the story of Napster, warnings about the evils of "piracy," and lawsuits by the recording and film industries, the enforcement of copyright law in the digital world has quietly shifted from regulating copying to regulating the design of technology. Lawmakers and commercial interests are pursuing what might be called a technical fix: instead of specifying what can and cannot be done legally with a copyrighted work, this new approach calls for the strategic use of encryption technologies to build standards of copyright directly into digital devices so that some uses are possible and others rendered impossible. In Wired Shut, Tarleton Gillespie examines this shift to “technical copy protection" and its profound political, economic, and cultural implications.