Monthly Archives: March 2009

The people who wouldn’t allow endlessly molecular slippage

In Sweden, not only are the state’s ways to deal with unrestricted file-sharing of a corporatist kind – the organisation and public view of file-sharing itself is shaped by corporatism, albeit a slightly different one.
To construe file-sharing as a ‘people’s movement’ seems to be a particularly Swedish way of seeing the phenomenon, but it is a method that also serves to give the otherwise nebulous phenomenon legitimacy and validity. Continue reading

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