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On my list.

Are these any good? I would be interested, but sometimes I find with reference material such as this, the references, while helpful as background material, aren't that useful when applied to the topic at hand. Ex: Spending too much time describing cases like Napster, or going into more detail about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act than is necessary when it comes to applying these topics toward current trends.

Roger on that. The best one I've read thus far is The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties by Aram Sinnreich. Sinnreich is a professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University.

The problem with many of the texts I've read on this subject is that most are dry and clinical. I love Lawrence Lessig for everything he's done for Creative Commons but his books are not as passionate and engaging as the example I mentioned above. Personally, I need my nonfiction to be written by someone who is deeply-invested and passionate about their subject.

I'm reading Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad. Didn't really find a new-found appreciation for punk I was searching for, but it has been quite entertaining so far. Can't wait to get to the chapter on Dinosaur Jr.

nothing....and i mean NOTHING....is better than the chapter on The Butthole Surfers!

great book....might have to give it a quick re-read :)

This one has been a blast. Take "Alien", the darkest side of "Star Wars", "Serenity", "Blade Runner", and "Dawn of the Dead" and put them in a blender and you'd get this book.

Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes. Should take me forever to get through this, but it's a fascinating read so far. Distinguished by its concentration not only on the origins of '70s NYC punk and new wave but also hip hop, salsa, post-Coltrane loft jazz, and minimalism.

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Sounds amazing. Gonna grab a copy.

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I read this two years ago, but started reading it again because I love the book and movie so much.

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I started rereading A Game of Thrones but got to my first Sansa chapter and just couldn't be arsed anymore, so instead I decided to reread the first three books of The Witcher series so I can finally read the recently translated Baptism of Fire.