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Fighting the War on File Sharing
Schmidt, Aernout; Dolfsma, Wilfred; Keuvelaar, Wim
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Description for Fighting the War on File Sharing
Hardback. The authors explore why peer-to-peer services fail to gain their full potential in society. Series: Information Technology and Law Series. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 552.
The explosive growth of the Napster and KaZaA services shows that peer-to-peer file sharing has tremendous appeal in our information society. Nevertheless, current legal and economic practices prevent that these services achieve their full potential. Fighting the War on File Sharing looks into the issue from the perspectives of IT, economics and law and combines the results, pointing out ways how to reduce its escalation and to end the war.
The approach and the solutions reached recognize the influence of outstanding work produced in different disciplines, such as law and information technology (Lessig), political anthropology (Douglas, Geertz, Smits), new institutional ... Read more
The explosive growth of the Napster and KaZaA services shows that peer-to-peer file sharing has tremendous appeal in our information society. Nevertheless, current legal and economic practices prevent that these services achieve their full potential. Fighting the War on File Sharing looks into the issue from the perspectives of IT, economics and law and combines the results, pointing out ways how to reduce its escalation and to end the war.
The approach and the solutions reached recognize the influence of outstanding work produced in different disciplines, such as law and information technology (Lessig), political anthropology (Douglas, Geertz, Smits), new institutional ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
T.M.C. Asser Press Netherlands
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Series
Information Technology and Law Series
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
The Hague, Netherlands
ISBN
9789067042383
SKU
V9789067042383
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About Schmidt, Aernout; Dolfsma, Wilfred; Keuvelaar, Wim
Professor Doctor A. H. J. Schmidt is Director of eLaw@Leiden, Centre for Law in the Information Society, Leiden University. Wilfred Dolfsma is an an Associate Professor at the Utrecht School of Economics and a Professorial Fellow at Maastricht University (UNU-MERIT). Wim Keuvelaar is managing director of Sdu E-Grant.
Reviews for Fighting the War on File Sharing
'... contains much that is stimulating to read and to be admired. ... represents a valuable contribution to this important debate.' The Journal of E-Commerce, Technology and Communications