This essay considers the viability of pornography marketed as resistant or revolutionary within hegemonic capitalist and heteronormative contexts. It focuses on three contemporary porn websites: Pornhub, Treasure Island Media, and TROUBLEfilms. In its current context, internet pornography represents a complex web of content owners, producers, distributors, licensees, users, uploaders, downloaders, actors, web hosts, and advertisers, and notions of intellectual property often come into play as porn companies try to make money in an environment in which customers do not want to pay. Using the Salish method of "storying up" a phenomenon (Maracle 2007), I narrate the history of obscenity and intellectual property and discuss survival strategies...
In this essay I will argue that as peer-to-peer (p2p)-based file-sharing increasingly becomes the no...
From the perspective of rights holders, piracy represents lost revenue. In this article we argue tha...
Debates about pornography have always included arguments about its “effects.” Now we can gauge the e...
The online adult entertainment industry, as Darling (2014) showed, is a new case of low intellectual...
Business models for mainstream porn were extensively explained by Darling (2014).While the role of c...
This article investigates pornography’s free speech at a time when commercial pornography has floode...
Anti-pornography campaigners have frequently claimed that porn studies need to take the economics of...
This article discusses the topic of porn videos found on the Internet in order to think about the po...
The Digital Networks, Digital Pub(l)ics panels (two panels in total) develop a critical conversation...
If porn soon invaded the web, it was not only through video streaming sites, but also through blogs,...
This thesis argues that a more nuanced study of online media piracy is necessary in order to augme...
Media piracy—the production, distribution and consumption of media texts in contravention of intelle...
This paper examines the socio-semiotic relations between pornography and technology in cyberspace. I...
As it moved into the mainstream in the 1970s and early 1980s, pornography obtained copyright protect...
This article focuses on the historical roots of pornography in different media. Theoretically, it is...
In this essay I will argue that as peer-to-peer (p2p)-based file-sharing increasingly becomes the no...
From the perspective of rights holders, piracy represents lost revenue. In this article we argue tha...
Debates about pornography have always included arguments about its “effects.” Now we can gauge the e...
The online adult entertainment industry, as Darling (2014) showed, is a new case of low intellectual...
Business models for mainstream porn were extensively explained by Darling (2014).While the role of c...
This article investigates pornography’s free speech at a time when commercial pornography has floode...
Anti-pornography campaigners have frequently claimed that porn studies need to take the economics of...
This article discusses the topic of porn videos found on the Internet in order to think about the po...
The Digital Networks, Digital Pub(l)ics panels (two panels in total) develop a critical conversation...
If porn soon invaded the web, it was not only through video streaming sites, but also through blogs,...
This thesis argues that a more nuanced study of online media piracy is necessary in order to augme...
Media piracy—the production, distribution and consumption of media texts in contravention of intelle...
This paper examines the socio-semiotic relations between pornography and technology in cyberspace. I...
As it moved into the mainstream in the 1970s and early 1980s, pornography obtained copyright protect...
This article focuses on the historical roots of pornography in different media. Theoretically, it is...
In this essay I will argue that as peer-to-peer (p2p)-based file-sharing increasingly becomes the no...
From the perspective of rights holders, piracy represents lost revenue. In this article we argue tha...
Debates about pornography have always included arguments about its “effects.” Now we can gauge the e...