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Originally Posted by aux-in
Are these any good? I would be interested, but sometimes I find with reference material such as this, the references, while helpful as background material, aren't that useful when applied to the topic at hand. Ex: Spending too much time describing cases like Napster, or going into more detail about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act than is necessary when it comes to applying these topics toward current trends.
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Roger on that. The best one I've read thus far is
The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties by Aram Sinnreich. Sinnreich is a professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University.
The problem with many of the texts I've read on this subject is that most are dry and clinical. I love Lawrence Lessig for everything he's done for Creative Commons but his books are not as passionate and engaging as the example I mentioned above. Personally, I need my nonfiction to be written by someone who is deeply-invested and passionate about their subject.
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