News and Research articles on Napster

Sharing without laws: an exploration of social practices and ad hoc labeling standards in online movie piracy

Roberto Tietzmann, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Liana Gross Furini, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2016 DOI: 10.14763/2016.2.416

This paper discusses self-labelling standards as sharing mediators in pirated versions of movies available online.

Growing information asymmetries as the cloud spreads

Primavera De Filippi, Research and Studies Center of Administrative Science (CERSA/CNRS), Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
PUBLISHED ON: 22 Aug 2013 DOI: 10.14763/2013.3.192

Cloud-based information intermediaries curate information and distribute in a way that fundamentally challenges the right of access to information.