Internet Piracy as Radical Democracy?

Abstract

In this chapter, I shall estimate the impulses to radical democracy emerging in the context of peer-to-peer file sharing. This type of exchange of text, music, and images raises the issue of who controls cultural objects, one that goes to the heart of contemporary societies since they increasingly depend on information in a planetary context.1 File sharing through peer-to-peer software promises radically to democratize the production and distribution of culture, threatening the culture industry and opening widely the process of cultural creation.

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