Statistician and tech-book author Chris Fehily’s Cancel Cable: How Internet Pirates Get Free Stuff is a provocative, often funny, and informative book that describes in detail how to use infringing download services to get stuff for free. Fehily’s book is not only interesting in that it brings clear technical writing to the subject of getting up an running with BitTorrent and various trackers and search-engines, but also for the insightful notes on how the arms race between copyright enforcers and pirates has created many new tools for evaluating the trustworthiness of the files you find online. Fehily touches on the ethics of downloading, the reasons that people participate in it, and how he decides what he wants to pirate and what he wants to buy. Cancel Cable is a remarkably calm look at the technical, social, economic and cultural issues arising from file-sharing, and it’s also a damned practical guide to navigating the strange world of file-sharing technology.
Cancel Cable: How Internet Pirates Get Free Stuff
- Top P2P downloads 2007: music, movies, TV and musicians – Boing Boing
- P2P users buy more music — Canadian govt study – Boing Boing
- EFF report on four years of RIAA vs P2P – Boing Boing
- Copyright's Paradox: brilliantly argued scholarly book tackles …
- Norwegian P2P downloaders buy more music – Boing Boing
- Record sales up, P2P sales up — RIAA's story doesn't add up …
- Delete this book – Boing Boing
- P2P usage stats you can rely on – Boing Boing