Code Wars

Code Wars 10 Years of P2P Software Litigation

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Publisher's Synopsis

Code Wars recounts the legal and technological history of the first decade of the P2P file sharing era, focusing on the innovative and anarchic ways in which P2P technologies evolved in response to decisions reached by courts with regard to their predecessors.

With reference to US, UK, Canadian and Australian secondary liability regimes, this insightful book develops a compelling new theory to explain why a decade of ostensibly successful litigation failed to reduce the number, variety or availability of P2P file sharing applications - and highlights ways the law might need to change if it is to have any meaningful effect in the future.

A genuine interdisciplinary study, spanning both the law and information technology fields, this book will appeal to intellectual property and technology academics and researchers internationally. Historians and sociologists studying this fascinating period, as well as undergraduate and graduate students who are working on research projects in related fields, will also find this book a stimulating read.

Contents:
Foreword by Jane C. Ginsburg
1. Introduction
2. Applying the Pre-P2P Law to Napster
3. Targeted Attacks on the US Secondary Liability Law
4. The Targeted Response
5. Post-Grokster Fallout
6. Goldilocks and the Three Laws: Why Rights Holders Would Never Have Sued a P2P Provider under UK or Canadian Law (and why the Australian law was just right)
7. The End of the Road for Kazaa
8. Endgame: More P2P Software Providers than Ever Before
9. Can the Secondary Liability Law Respond to Code's Revolutionary Nature?
Bibliography
Index

Book information

ISBN: 9781849806213
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing
Pub date:
DEWEY: 346.048
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 258
Weight: 535g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 19mm