Today piracy and modern youth culture are explicitly linked. In his book The Pirate’s Dilemma (2008) Matt Mason describes this current situation in a historical perspective. And he rightfully does so, because piracy has played a major role in the becoming of our modern society. Mason argues that piracy is more than the one-dimensional ‘threat’ that the media industry is calling it. It is - and always has been - an important catalyst for innovation. From all this he concludes that today’s occurrences of piracy are a sign of a change in the way we interact with information and cultural goods. The book deals with many examples of these changes and its implications, which makes it an obligatory reading.
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