Abstract
The international debate over file-sharing is defined by polarities. Some view this conflict as a battle for internet openness against the efforts of the film and music industry to bring about a second Enclosure Movement, this time against the worldwide digital commons. Others, however, consider it to be a legitimate law-enforcement operation against wilful facilitators of large-scale copyright infringement. In his book, Online File Sharing, published in early 2014, Jonas Andersson Schwarz argues that this dichotomy is a deeply flawed way of understanding the file-sharing dispute. Using tools from critical theory and political philosophy, Schwarz aims to break down the binaries, and to demonstrate that the reality of file-sharing is simply too complex, and too nuanced, to be captured by way of dualities, no matter which side projects them.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.55496/IWSQ1385
Recommended Citation (provided in OSCOLA format)
Gautam Bhatia,
"The Politics of Pirates:
Jonas Andersson Schwarz’s
“Online File Sharing”"
(2016)
12(1)
Indian Journal of Law and Technology
10.55496/IWSQ1385
Available at:
https://repository.nls.ac.in/ijlt/vol12/iss1/5
