Future of Piracy, week 47

What we have done: Last week we analyzed more every aspect interesting our researches, in particular the historical part for the background, policy part for a futuristic prevision of law changes, some information about 3D-printing materials and shops where you can print your projects. We are considering including a subchapter called “IKEA: A case study”, as to include something that everyone can relate to. Furthermore we are reading about crowdwork for the final platform of sharing data encouraging everyone to cooperate. We also sent out a survey about piracy habits and have at this moment gotten 149 responses containing very useful information that we can use as a foundation when we write our chapter for the book. Lastly we contacted professor Elena Sherstoboeva from National Research University Higher School of Economics that specializes in the legislation in the media industry about an e-mail/Skype interview.

Some statistics from our survey. The rest will be published when all responses are collected.

What we will do: We will continue with our literature study about the social aspects in piracy (why, how and what do people pirate? What are their motivation?), interview other professors and experts in the media industry. We will have a first draft of the text done on wednesday next week so that we have something concrete to work with and improve. We will also begin with the storyboard for the final video presentation.

Challenges encountered: we had no answers from some experts of media, sharing and piracy so we decided to create a survey about piracy for more statistics. We also took the feedback from the midcrit into consideration and changed our focus from the detailed technical aspects of how this kind of piracy would work to defining the everyday future scenario. How would a regular day look like for an average person? How would the crowdworking aspect function and what effects will that have on society as a whole?