Digital Robin Hood

Article: Bodo Balasz. Robin Hood Digital.

URL = http://www.warsystems.hu/wp-content/uploads_bodo/bodo_phd_general_checked.pdf

Article on the filesharing movements.

Abstract

“File-sharing communities are also remembering communities. They direct attention and thus demand, they discuss and thus keep alive cultural goods. When something is posted as available for download, not only those fetch it have requested a particular item, but also those who were standing nearby. These individuals are reciting work long forgotten like those who in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 memorize books to be able to share them with others.”