Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy

This book situates media piracy as a symptom of a much larger restructuring of cultural labor in the era of the internet: labor that is digital, entrepreneurial, informal and even illegal, and increasingly politicized.

Gavin Mueller was born in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University. He currently teaches New Media and Digital Culture in the Media Studies program at the University of Amsterdam.

Introduction Chapter 1: Theories of Late Capitalist Restructuring: Neoliberalism and Post-Fordism Chapter 2: The Critique of the Digital Political Economy Chapter 3: A History of Digital Piracy Chapter 4: Theorizing Piracy Chapter 5: Global Piracy Conclusion: The End of P2P