The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright

by Hector Postigo

The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.

The movement against restrictive digital copyright protection arose largely in response to the excesses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. In The Digital Rights Movement, Hector Postigo shows that what began as an assertion of consumer rights to digital content...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262017954
• ISBN13: 9780262017954
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher