Monthly Archives: October 2010

Summary of my thesis

by Jonas Posted on 26/10/2010

A brief summary of some of the main conclusions in Jonas Andersson’s Ph.D. thesis, recently approved by Goldsmiths, University of London. The thesis explores how file-sharers justify their habits, and what they refer to; how their arguments are constituted in terms of representation, agency, justification and morality, as well as the actual technical, economic, historical, demographic and geographical conditions. Continue reading →

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“Efter The Pirate Bay”

by Jonas Posted on 18/10/2010

On a new Swedish reader on The Pirate Bay that I have edited, and a brief summary of some of the observations that are developed in that book. In the near future, it is likely that the Internet will have even more “walled gardens” and “tethered machines”, while the unrestricted, non-overseeable p2p networks will continue to operate below the surface. Continue reading →

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