Nice little paper written by Abigail DeKosnik of the University of California, Berkeley. Its also formed a part of my talk at BarCampMediaCity.
One of the headings is the Advantages of Pirating TV and the subpoints are…
- Single Search
- Simple Indexing
- Uniform Software and Interface
- File Portability
- Access to Global TV
- Freedom from Preempting in the U.S
- Personal Archives
- Low-Cost and Commercial-Free
Lastly theres a section on Recommendations to Legal Services under which theres…
- Standardise
- Offer Downloading and Streaming
- Strategize for Global Audiences
- Offer a Premium Services for Personal Archivists
- Eliminate the TV Set
- Charge Subscription Fees Based on Volume of Usage
In the Appendix, theres recommended reading
- How to Turn Pirates into Loyalists: The Moral Economy and an Alternative Response to File Sharing by Alex Austin
- It’s (Not) The End of TV As We Know It: Understanding Online Television and Its Audience by Sheila Seles
- If It Doesn’t Spread, It’s Dead: Creating Value in a Spreadable Marketplace by Henry Jenkins, Xiaochang Li and Ana Domb
The paper is a good one and for most of the people reading it, its maybe really good but it spells out quite a few things which you would already know if you were an avid read of torrentfreak, darknet, etc…