Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests

by Patrick Burkart

An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons.

The Swedish Pirate Party emerged as a political force in 2006 when a group of software programmers and file-sharing geeks protested the police takedown of The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing search engine. The Swedish Pirate Party, and later the German Pirate Party, came to be identified...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262026945
• ISBN13: 9780262026949
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher