摘要：As the production of knowledge and information increasingly becomes the guiding force of
capitalist expansion, legal structures transform to accommodate the consolidation of wealth
and power in the hands of already powerful actors. Consequently, the digital terrain of
cyberspace becomes a space of contestation in which, on the one hand amateurs, artists, and
students of digital technologies develop new tools to share and distribute knowledge, and on
the other, actors of capitalist governance such as the WTO, MPAA, RIAA struggle to enclose
these spontaneous activities within certain legal limits. Social cooperation and production of
our material and immaterial world- including production of science and technology – is
rejected within a system that assumes the individual to be the main source of creativity. In
order to establish the capitalist hegemony within the new matrix of knowledge, production,
and power, states and international organizations that foster neo-liberal economic structuring
push for legal actions against individuals and nation-states alike. The recent example of The
Pirate Bay, although not unprecedented, can be treated as a microcosm that reflects the
challenges posed to the capitalist system by a generalized piracy.
