Hi Chris - Actually, if I am to be accurate, I should mention that Parlor Press is housed at Purdue University, with Purdue prof. David Blakesley as its prime mover. Mine is not the only book available for free download there. There's a nice 2003 statement of purpose/manifesto by Blakesley and some colleagues at: http://www.parlorpress.com/digital.html and more books for the taking at: http://www.parlorpress.com . . . though David Blakesley will probably be especially encouraged to keep putting books online if, at some point, they translate into sales, especially direct sales from Parlor. With all that said, there is ALSO something running rampant in Minnesota, where Chuck Olsen just put his great documentary on blogs called, naturally, "blogumentary" online for free at Google Video. I'm not a native, so I'm not sure whether this is the "Minnesota nice" that I've heard so much about. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8920472176280937346 So, for the moment, Minnesota (Minneapolis, specifically) appears to be the epicenter of free-for-the-taking scholarship/criticism on/ about the Internet. Unless you all have something more to tell us. I'd love to see a whole passel of municipalities wrestling for that title. So, I'll show you my Creative Commons license if you show me yours. Best, John Logie Associate Professor of Rhetoric University of Minnesota On Feb 8, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Heidelberg, Chris wrote:
John:
This is great! Nothing like forward thinking, it must be running rampant in Minnesota because I understand that there is a book company in Minnesota that offers free downloads of textbooks that have advertisers. What a great idea when media consolidation has driven up the costs of traditional publishing for college students.
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Logie Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:39 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] music 'piracy' groups query
Andrew -
Thanks for providing a timely opportunity for the following S.S.P. (shameless self-promotion). While my new book, "Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates" does not directly address the subterranean groups who are now ripping and circulating files via P2P networks, it DOES feature chapters on the use of the terms "piracy" and "hacking/cracking" to describe P2P file transfers.
The text is available for free download at:
http://www.parlorpress.com/logie.html
. . . thanks to my 21st-Century-forward-thinking publisher's approach to copyright (that's Parlor Press). The eBook circulates under a Creative Commons license, so you can print it out or post it on your own favorite P2P network, and we won't sue. (Also can be purchased between covers via the big river.)
I hope it is helpful to you or anyone else who happens to be reading.
Best,
John Logie Associate Professor of Rhetoric University of Minnesota
On Feb 8, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Andrew Whelan wrote:
Dear all,
I am researching the groups who 'rip' commercial CDs and vinyl for peer-to-peer distribution and wondered if anyone had come across any reading on this phenomena. The only article I have been able to find addressing this subject specifically is:
Cooper, Jon, and Daniel Harrison. 2001. "The social organization of audio piracy on the Internet." *Media, Culture and Society* vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 71-89.
Any suggestions as to material, especially on audio, or film 'rippers', or indeed software 'cracker' groups, would be very much appreciated.
Best wishes,
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