"Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture," is a new book from MIT Press (Cambridge, MA) that examines the ongoing shift to technical copy protection and its political, economic and cultural implications.(Copyright)

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"Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture," is a new book from MIT Press (Cambridge, MA) that examines the ongoing shift to technical copy protection and its political, economic and cultural implications. The shift to new digital copyright protections depends on new kinds of alliances among content and technology industries, legislators, regulators, and the courts, the book suggests, and claims that the film and music industries are deploying copyright in order to funnel digital culture into "increasingly commercial patterns that threaten to undermine the democratic potential of a network society," MIT said.

The book examines three recent controversies over digital copyright: the failed effort to develop copy protection for portable music players...

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