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This chapter offers a look into the piracy market in Mexico City and its relation to digital environments. By focusing on Mexico City piracy, it also shows how ethical and moral views are constructed and mobilised in different ways regarding different technologies, meaning that technologies for music consumption are not stabilised and are always convergent and mobile, situating the consumer in a flexible way according to the justifications summoned up. The author uses some theoretical concepts from the sociology of music, but also tries to show how the language proposed by later actor-network theorists is still useful when talking about the relation between consumers, technologies and music, particularly in legally complex environments such as Mexico City.
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Ávila-Torres, V. (2016). Making Sense of Acquiring Music in Mexico City. In: Nowak, R., Whelan, A. (eds) Networked Music Cultures. Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58290-4_6
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