On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 January 2010 06:07 PM, Sruthi Krishnan wrote: > > Someone who lectured us had it right.. the word has a certain "haraami" > > quality to it, very appealing. He was talking about copyright laws and > more > > specifically about the rise of T-series, which did cover versions of all > the > > copyrighted HMV stuff, circumventing copyright laws, and raked in the > > moolah. > > Was this 'someone' Lawrence Liang, by any chance? > > For those more interested in this, I would recommend reading: > Ravi Sundaram's "Recycling Modernity: Pirating Electronic Cultures in > India" <http://tr.im/KZPF> and "Beyond the National Panopticon: The > Experience of Cyberpublics in India" <http://tr.im/KZPo>, and > Lawrence's "Porous Legalities and Avenues of Participation": > <http://tr.im/KZP5>. > >
