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Record W147103694

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing as User Rights Activism

2015· article· en· W147103694 on OpenAlexaffabout
Michael A Gunn

Bibliographic record

VenueScholarship@Western (Western University) · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicDigital Rights Management and Security
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFile sharingInternet privacyPeer-to-peerPeer reviewComputer scienceWorld Wide WebPolitical scienceBusinessLawThe Internet
DOInot available

Abstract

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The pre-digital marketplace is no longer sustainable. With the imposition of digital rights management restrictions on the distribution of media, the Internet cannot promote intellectual freedom. Peer-to-peer file sharing technology helps expose the work of artists and authors to a much wider audience than previously possible. This provides an opportunity for more sales and a greater number of successful artists and authors. Yet corporate copyright owners continue to propagate the “piracy” label to discredit the idea of open access channels. This paper argues that as information professionals, librarians are in a position to promote policy change that revolutionizes the political economy of digital goods.\nThis article is helpful for readers seeking to learn more about: activism, civil disobedience, human rights, international law, libraries, media, policy, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, digital rights management (DRM), BitTorrent, Gnutella, droit d’auteur and contrefaçon, user rights, librarians, piracy, digital technology, technological neutrality, copyright, digital goods, file transfer protocol, torrent indexes, copyright infringement, intellectual property, communicative citizen, media conglomerates, technological protection measures, information technology, intellectual freedom, metadata, distribution of works, digital vendors, exceptions to copyright, information users, Pirate Party \nTopics in this article include: digital revolution, developments in copyright protection, balancing user rights and property of authors/ artists, file-sharing technology, duties of librarians, rivalry in consumption, technological innovation, MegaUpload, Recording Industry Association of America, home taping scare, fair dealing, fair use, pre-digital marketplace, copyright owners, political neutrality, Internet, media industry \nAuthorities cited in this article include: Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) Copyright Modernization Act Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Sony v Universal Studios A&M Records Inc. v Napster Inc. MGM Studios Inc. v Grokster Ltd. Amstrad Consumer Electronics PLC v The British Phonographic Industry Ltd. Théberge v Galerie d’Art du Petit Champlain Voltage Pictures LLD v Jane Doe

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.065

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.021
Scholarly communication0.0150.023
Open science0.0020.009
Research integrity0.0060.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.102
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.206 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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