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Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age

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Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age
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Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN/ASIN: 9089643850
ISBN-13: 9789089643858
Number of pages: 244

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An in-depth exploration of digital culture and its dissemination, Sharing offers a counterpoint to the dominant view that file sharing is piracy. Instead, Philippe Aigrain looks at the benefits of file sharing, which allows unknown writers and artists to be appreciated more easily.

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