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Culture and capital decoupled : exploring the dynamics of peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright violation
Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-59).
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2014
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| author | Cooper, Amrik |
| author2 | Jubber, Ken |
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| description | Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-59). |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10283 Culture and capital decoupled : exploring the dynamics of peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright violation Cooper, Amrik Jubber, Ken Sociology Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-59). In this thesis the significance of casual copyright violation as enabled by the infrastructural fluidity of the internet is discussed (in particular, its most contemporary form, peer-to-peer file sharing). The aim of this discussion is to explore and promote a better understand of casual copyright violation, beyond the narrower conceptions challenged herein. The positions of progressive intellectual property advocates and of the intellectual property industry are presented, neither of whose analysis appears to rise above idealism or moralising. A triangulated research design was implemented, incorporating one-on-one qualitative interviews, a focus group and a survey of a student file-sharing population. I conclude that peer-to-peer file sharing is less significant as an individual choice than it is as a structural feature of the digital age. 2014-12-27T19:44:21Z 2014-12-27T19:44:21Z 2010 Master Thesis Masters MSocSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10283 eng application/pdf Department of Sociology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Sociology Cooper, Amrik Culture and capital decoupled : exploring the dynamics of peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright violation |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Culture and capital decoupled : exploring the dynamics of peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright violation |
| title_full | Culture and capital decoupled : exploring the dynamics of peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright violation |
| title_fullStr | Culture and capital decoupled : exploring the dynamics of peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright violation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Culture and capital decoupled : exploring the dynamics of peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright violation |
| title_short | Culture and capital decoupled : exploring the dynamics of peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright violation |
| title_sort | culture and capital decoupled exploring the dynamics of peer to peer file sharing and copyright violation |
| topic | Sociology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10283 |
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