Pirates of the Digital Millennium · How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy by Gantz, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Copyright Praise For Pirates of the Digital Millennium Financial Times Prentice Hall Financial Times Prentice Hall Books Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1 Are You a Digital Pirate?

Intellectual Property and the Concept of Copy Rights Copying and Virtue: A Short History I Sing the Copy Electric Recording, from A to V Is It Live Or Is It Memorex? Copying and Convenience The Empire Strikes Back Even Better Than the Real Thing? Meanwhile, Back on the PC The Digital Black Market Are You a Digital Pirate?

Chapter 2 Is it Copyright or the Right to Copy?

The First Known Copy Pirate The First Copyright The Scottish Pirates Copyright as Politics and Business 100 Years of American Piracy The Quintessential American Pirate The Idea of Copyrighting Ideas A Borrower Be: Understanding Fair Use The Expanding Universe Where are We Today?

Chapter 3 Us Against Them?

If We are Us, Who Is Them? What's a Little Rip, Mix, Burn Among Friends? Music Is the Soul...of Piracy A Pirate's Argument Which Camp are You in?

Chapter 4 Inside the Corporate Intellect: A Day at Microsoft

Why Microsoft? The Birth of Microsoft Office 2003 Plan, Write Code, Test; Plan, Write Code, Test Knowing When to Quit Microsoft as Microcosm The Legal Beagles Fighting Spam The Tests of Time Getting Help from Watson Harnessing Genius Piracy's Long Shadow

Chapter 5 Inside the Sausage: The Making of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Antecedents to the DMCA The Pieces Start to Fall into Place The DMCA Is Born The DMCA Dissected I Got 20 More Years, Babe What Hath the DMCA Wrought? The Bell Tolls, but for Whom? Desperately Seeking Libra

Chapter 6 Global Fallout

How Bad Is Piracy? The Hidden Costs of Software Piracy Are These Numbers Real? What Drives Piracy? Who Gets Hurt? An Economic Argument for Piracy Why Don't Governments Do Something? The Rule of Law The Global Push to Lower Piracy What's the Global Fallout?

Chapter 7 Dude, Where's My MP3?

The Dawn of MP3 Downloading How MP3s are Shared An Anatomy of Downloading The Darker Side of Downloading The Power of Youth The Techno-Elite View from the Street It's Not Just MP3s Student Economics Internet-Based Information Is Real Power Ethics from Without Are New Moral Ground Rules Needed?

Chapter 8 Eliot Ness or Keystone Kops?

A Music Industry Offensive Does Downloading Actually Hurt CD Sales? Where are the Cops When You Need Them? Chasing Buccaneers Chasing Buccaneers Abroad Chasing a Mirage Deputizing the Businessman Notice and Takedown The International Black Hole The Ongoing Arms Race An Uphill Push

Chapter 9 Angel on My Shoulder: What's in It for Me?

Technology or People: Who's Running the Show? Asking Tough Questions An Ethical Quandary What's in It for Governments? What's in It for Businesses? Facing Up to the Ethical Issue The Ethical Climate

Chapter 10 Through the Fog: The Future of Intellectual Property

Lesson One: We're Locked in a War No One Can Win Lesson Two: Copyright Laws Won't Go Away, Ever Lesson Three: Piracy Has Changed the Relationship Between Media Buyers and Sellers Lesson Four: It's About Capitalism, Stupid Lesson Five: Laws and Case Law Will See-Saw Lesson Six: Globalization Creates the Common Denominator Lesson Seven: Decriminalizing the Kids Should Be a Top Priority Lesson Eight: Give a Little to Get a Little Lesson Nine: Ethics are Important The Next Few Steps Possibilities from the Fringe What Should Happen?

Afterword

My Personal Journey: John My Personal Journey: Jack

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