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MEDIA PIRACY IN

EMERGING ECONOMIES

Edited by Joe Karaganis

Media Piracy in Emerging Economies can be found online at

http://piracy.ssrc.org.

Published by the Social Science Research Council

Printed in the United States of America

References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author

nor the Social Science Research Council is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed

since the manuscript was prepared.

Maps by Mark Swindle

Cover photo: AFP/Getty Images

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Media Piracy in Emerging Economies

ISBN 978-0-98412574-6

1.Information society—Social aspects. 2.Intellectual Property. 3.International business

enterprises—Political activity. 4.Blackmarket. I. Social Science Research Council

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL • MEDIA PIRACY IN EMERGING ECONOMIES

Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is distributed under a

Consumer’s Dilemma license, which displaces the developing-world

consumer’s dilemma onto other geographies and income brackets.

The full-text PDF version of the report is available for:

1. US$8 for non-commercial use in high-income countries—a

list that for the present purposes includes the United States,

Western Europe, Japan, Australia, Israel, Singapore, and several

of the Persian Gulf States (Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab

Emirates, Brunei, and Bahrain), but not Canada.

2. Free for non-commercial use outside the above-listed high-

income countries.

3. US$2000 for commercial end use in any location, deined as

use by businesses that realize inancial gain from ilm, music,

software, or publishing, and/or the enforcement of copyrights

thereof, with annual revenues greater than US$1 million.

Volume licensing is available.

A soft-cover print version is available for US$27.95, at http://piracy.

ssrc.org

“Use,” in this license, refers to the acts of acquisition and reading,

not to the commercial reproduction or sale of this work, which is

prohibited without permission from the publisher.

The terms of this license do not restrict use pursuant to copyright

limitations and exceptions under applicable law.

Violations of the terms of the license are subject to prosecution

under applicable law. For US residents, this includes criminal

prosecution under the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act, punishable

by up to ive years in prison and $250,000 in ines per act of

infringement.

For those who must have it for free anyway, you probably know

where to look.

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL • MEDIA PIRACY IN EMERGING ECONOMIES

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Delhi, India

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Bangalore, India

The Association for Progressive Communications

Johannesburg, South Africa

The Centre for Independent Social Research

St. Petersburg, Russia

The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Moscow State University

Moscow, Russia

The Program on Information Justice

and Intellectual Property

Washington College of Law, American University

Washington, DC, USA

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