My review of Ramon Lobato’s Shadow Economies of Cinema is up online now at the Manga Entertainment blog. There’s plenty of food for thought there about copyright enclosures, informal distribution networks, and what exactly pirates get up to. It’s not a student with two linked video recorders… there’s much more to it than that.
On a similar topic: “Interview: Razmig Hovaghimian, Co-founder and CEO of Viki.com”, by Zac Bertschy, Anime News Network, 25 April 2012.