Lawrence Liang - Piracy and Production
Channel: Steal ThisFilm
Date: 2014-01-24

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Berlin, June 2007 // Categories: Piracy, History, Cultural Production, Property 
Piracy is a term used to stigmatize but Liang contextualizes the term as an instance in the long history of 'commoning', where people organze themselves outside of hierarchy and property. He identifies the real threat to industry in the chance they may lose control of production as well as reproduction, as users become aware of their own potential. Finally, he underlines how in previous areas prohibited works were surpressed and destroyed, but argues that nowadays these works can survive in private digital so the past of loss and erosion need not repeat itself.