JD Lasica has written a book called Darknet: Remixing the Future of Movies, Music and Television which he is now inviting others to help him edit online via a Darknet wiki and a Darknet blog:

I'm nearly done writing it, so we're at the stage where it's time to bring in "the former audience," as Dan Gillmor puts it, and invite the blogosphere to participate in the book's editing (before it makes its way to its final editor).

Darknet, the book includes interviews with such new media power houses as Larry Lessig, John Perry Barlow, Howard Rheingold, Cory Doctorow, Mike Godwin, Clay Shirky, and Ed Felten, along with Jack Valenti and many others. It's about the rise of personal media and the conflict between traditional entertainment media and the digital technology available to the individual.

From the Introduction:

Darknets refer to underground or private networks where people trade files and communicate anonymously. But there's a deeper meaning as well. Darknet serves as a warning about a world where digital media become locked down, a future where the network serves not the user but the interests of Hollywood and the music industry. The Darknet is where many of us may wind up if current trends continue.

The next few years will prove pivotal in the war on creative expression. As Joe Kraus of the public interest group DigitalConsumer.org warns, “This battle will affect consumers’ rights for the next fifty years.”

In this culture war, the major entertainment companies and their allies on Capitol Hill are trying to exert control over digital technologies, while users do everything within the law—and sometimes outside the law—to escape those restrictions. The clash, intensifying by the day, is playing out in legislative chambers, courtrooms, and increasingly in the design of the consumer electronics devices, media players, personal computers, and digital television sets coming into our homes.

Only one player’s voice has not been heard: yours. The sensible middle ground has been lost in the noise. But now that the battle has been joined in our living rooms, the public is beginning to stir. A vanguard of online activists and others have started to push back against digital restraints. What once was an obscure set of public policy discussions may be burgeoning into a populist movement.

Darknet will draw you into the secretive world of the movie underground, where bootleggers and pirates run circles around Hollywood and law enforcement. But piracy and file sharing are only subplots. Instead, this book profiles people from the future. To see where society is heading, futurist Watts Wacker once advised, find people from the future and study them. You will meet many people from the future in these pages—early adopters of the digital lifestyle, pioneers of next-generation television, game-makers creating virtual worlds, all of them wrestling with the law or confronting powerful forces seeking to maintain the status quo.