The digital rights movement : the role of technology in subverting digital copyright / Hector Postigo.
By: Postigo, Hector [author.]
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Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookSeries: Information society series: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c2012Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2012]Description: 1 PDF (256 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262305334; 9786613942234; 128362978X; 9781283629782.Subject(s): Fair use (Copyright) | Piracy (Copyright) -- Prevention | Internet -- Law and legislation | Hacktivism | Digital rights management | Copyright and electronic data processingGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification: 345/.02662 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Includes bibliographical references and index.
The national information infrastructure and the policymaking process -- Origins of the digital rights movement: The white paper and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- Part II -- Dmitry Sklyarov and the Advanced eBook Processor -- DeCSS: Origins and the Bunner Case -- DeSS continued: The hacker ethic and the Reimerdes Case -- iTunes hacks: Hacking as a tactic in the digital rights movement -- Structure and tactics of the digital rights movement.
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The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.
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