Digital Pirates: Policing Intellectual Property in Brazil

Associate Professor of Anthropology & International Affairs Alexander Dent  examines the unauthorized creation, distribution and consumption of movies and music in Brazil with this look at how 21^st century capitalism generates piracy while producing fraught consumer experiences in Latin America and beyond. He offers a new definition of piracy as indispensable to current capitalism alongside increasing global enforcement of intellectual property. He draws on his fieldwork in and around São Paulo with pirates, musicians, filmmakers, police, salesmen, technicians, policymakers, politicians, activists and consumers.