Special Issue on Consuming the ‘Illegal’: Situating Online Piracy in Everyday Experience Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (Vol 19, no 1, February 2013) Guest editors: Robert Jewitt, University of Sunderland, UK; Jason Rutter, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; Majid Yar, University of Hull, UK Research interest on peer-to-peer file exchange through services such as BitTorrent and file lockers such a MegaUpload have tended to view piracy as a product of legislative, criminal, behavioural or business contexts. It has often adopted a priori assumptions that consumers of pirated goods are ‘deviant’, ‘unethical’ or demonstrate consumer...
