This edited collection examines the supposedly borderless internet at the point where borders return: through licensing agreements, territorial markets, national regulation and technical systems that determine who can watch what, and where. 

Published during the rapid consolidation of subscription streaming, the book captures an important transitional moment in media history. Its central argument remains useful: online circulation is never simply global, because platforms, states and rights-holders continually rebuild geography inside networked systems. The collection ranges across piracy, virtual private networks, regional catalogues, national cyberzones and the legal fiction of territorial media markets. Some platform examples will inevitably feel dated, but the underlying analysis of digital borders has only become more relevant.

For readers interested in streaming culture, internet governance, media distribution and the politics embedded in technical infrastructure.

Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2016. Theory on Demand no. 18. Print-on-demand paperback. Very good condition with light shelf wear.