Index

         Table of Contents

Piracy: Leakages from Modernity
   James Arvanitakis and Martin Fredriksson                                        1
  
List of Acronyms                                                                  15

      Part I - Ontology

The Pirate Imaginary and the Potential of the Authorial Pirate
   James Meese                                                                    19

To Name a Thief: Constructing the Deviant Pirate
   Virginia Crisp                                                                 39

“You Can’t Change Our Ancestors Without Our Permission”: 
    Cultural Perspectives on Biopiracy
   Daniel F. Robinson, Danielle Drozdzewski and Louise Kiddell                    55

Piratical Community and the Digital Age: The Structural Racialization of Piracy 
    in European Law and Culture
   Sonja Schillings                                                               77

           Part II - Politics

Modernity, Law and the Violence of Piracy, Property and the State
   Sean Johnson Andrews                                                           97

‘Pirates’ in EU’s (Semi)Peripheries: A Comparative Case Study on the Perceptions 
    of Poles and Greeks on Digital File-sharing
   Yiannis Mylonas                                                               117

The IPR GPR: The Emergence of a Global Prohibition Regime to Regulate 
    Intellectual Property Infringement
   Lucas Logan                                                                   137

BitTorrent: Stealing or Sharing Culture? A Discussion of the Pirate Bay Case 
    and the Documentaries ‘Steal this Film’ I & II
   Ekin Gündüz Özdemírcí                                                         157

The Internet Between Politics and the Political: The Birth of the Pirate Party
   Mariacristina Sciannamblo                                                     177

Cultural Resistance or Corporate Assistance: Disenchanting the Anti-Capitalist 
    Myth of Digital Piracy
   You Jie                                                                       195

           Part III - Practices

The Justification of Piracy: Differences in Conceptualization and Argumentation 
    Between Active Uploaders and Other File-sharers
   Jonas Andersson and Stefan Larsson                                            217
 
Set the Fox to Watch the Geese: Voluntary IP Regimes in Piratical File-sharing 
    Communities
   Balázs Bodó                                                                   241

Pirate Economies and the Production of Smooth Spaces
   Pavlos Hatzopoulos and Nelli Kambouri                                         265

The Collaborative Production of Amateur Subtitles for Pirated TV shows in Brazil
   Vanessa Mendes Moreira De Sa                                                  285

After Piracy: Reflections of Industrial Designers in Taiwan on Sustainable Innovation
   Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin                                                          307

Piracy is Normal, Piracy is Boring: Systemic Disruption as Everyday Life
   Francesca da Rimini and Jonathan Marshall                                     323

Postscript
   Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle                                                 345

Author biographies                                                               355

Index                                                                            361