The Increasing Sophistication of Mobile Media Sharing in Lower-Middle-Class Bangalore
Jacki O’Neill, Kentaro Toyama, Jay Chen, Berthel Tate, Aysha Siddique · 2016
During the first decade of the 21st century, the rise of mobile feature phones in India saw the development of both an economy of informal media exchange and a culture of active media sharing for entertainment. Mobile phone owners paid for pirated movies and music on the grey market, and they traded them with one another, even using poorly designed mechanisms such as Bluetooth file exchange.