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...
Digital Britain – Taxing and watching you for the greater good?
Those in the UK will no doubt be aware that yesterday saw what may well be the last Queen’s Speech during the administration of this Labour government. While there was a general brouhaha about the value or otherwise of committing to new legislation changes so close to an election and how much was merely electioneering rather than improving the lot for citizens a couple of things or relevance to the STEVO project have arisen following the speech. The three strikes initiative that has been driven by Lord Mandelson where those accused of downloading illegal files will have their internet...
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