JD Lasica has just published Darknet and will be publishing stories and analysis from the book in weekly installments. Unfortunately, we won't be getting the entire book online, but we will get a weekly sample. There are two posts so far:

Darknet Mini-Book: Introduction

Darknet is not another book about the excesses of copyright law -- not really. It's a look at the future of future of movies, television, computing, music, games, art and more -- and the choice we face as a society....

Now, about the title. Throughout this book, “Darknets” simply refer to underground or private networks where people trade files and communicate anonymously. But I want to suggest two deeper meanings as well.

First, the Darknet is a metaphor for the hidden-away matter of the Web—the burgeoning pool of weblogs, independent sites, and grassroots media well outside the limelight of Big Media. Collectively, this “long tail,” as Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson put it, far outweighs all the bright material of the commercial Web sites with their seemingly impressive vast swaths of traffic. The dark tail is where the hope and promise of the Web resides.

Second, Darknet serves as a warning about a world where digital media become locked down, a future where the network serves not the user but the interests of Hollywood and the record industry. More and more activity on the open Internet will be pushed into the underground if current anti-innovation trends continue.

Darknet Mini-Book: The Teenage Filmmakers

The best darn fan film you'll never see.

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