Freeloading: how our insatiable appetite for free content starves creativity UK edition [Minkštas viršelis]

'Taking a rare and refreshingly unbiased look at the phenomenon of internet piracy, [ Freeloading] is that rarest of discursive entities; a call for more conversation, both balanced and passionate ... it manages to present the pros and cons of all sides of the argument ... without the hyperbole that typically surrounds the subject.' -- Tony McMahon * InPress Magazine * '[ The] fact that content can so easily be looted doesn't justify doing so ... If you value art you have to support those who make it.' -- Fiona Capp * Sydney Morning Herald * 'A deeply moral and passionate book' * The Sunday Age * 'A wonderful book that catches an encouraging shift in the zeitgeist. Ruens epiphany regarding the effects of his own piracy and freeloading of the bands he loves was eye opening.' -- David Byrne, musician and author, How Music Works 'The original slacker's dream of free everything may have been realized by the Internetbut along with it came the slacker's nightmare of never getting paid for one's creativity. Freeloading seeksand to a large extent succeedsto wrestle with the collapse of the commons and the possibilities for a renewed social contract.' -- Douglas Rushkoff, media theorist, author of Life, Inc. and Program or Be Programmed