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Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

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Adrian Johns' PIRACY is a wide-ranging and expansive view of a subject that is of intense interest as books, music and movies shift to digital dissemination. Johns' great gift is his ability to present the historical context of the piracy of intellectual property and he offers a sweeping narrative that's full of really interesting tidbits. Ultimately, Johns positions today's piracy of digital media within the context of a never-ending struggle between commerce and creativity. A great book that will be read and argued for many years.

Dry as dust but extremely informative and leaves the reader with a solid historical foundation of Piracy. A little conservative but when dealing with Piracy I'm inclined to agree. Worth your time...but like all University of Chicago texts this one will test your commitment to the process.

Highly recommended for the committed reader and amateur historians.

This book has a lot of information in it that I did not know. For instance, Gutenberg freely publishes books that have lost their copyrights and tells people that they can do whatever they want with them (sell them, change them, put their name as the author, whatever). I found some good information in this book but it is hard to follow because it drones on and one.

Talk about long winded. I really could not even finish this book. I am sure there is a lot of great information in it; however, I could not get passed the endless talking.

I have only downloaded a sample of the Kindle edition and I am finding it very difficult to read. The text is fully justified, which leaves gaps between some words and almost no space between other words. Also, the letter r does not always appear as it should.