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Bookmark Why so much of the world runs on counterfeit software - The…
LAGOS — Adegunji Kazeem vividly remembers the day his life fell apart. It was December 4, 2019. Kazeem was a final-year student at the University of Lagos and writing his undergraduate…

July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Piracy Index | Piracy
This website is a collection of the best digital piracy resources. This will help you get started on your pirate voyage. What happened to the GitHub repo?

July 3 2022, 11:33pm | Comments
Bookmark This artist claims you can torrent a blockchain’s worth of NFTs -…
In what may be one of the better pieces of performance art this year, Australian Geoffrey Huntley has created a website that promises to let you torrent an entire blockchain’s worth…

November 25 2021, 1:51am | Comments
Reddit What is the Most Dangerous Pirate Content to Download? submitted by /u/Myfap-collection to r/Piracy [link] [comments]

July 25 2020, 10:25am | Comments
Bookmark In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub
In Antoine de Saint Exupéry's tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed.…

June 16 2020, 5:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Pirate Care - Pirate Care
We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges…

March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Pirate Care - Pirate Care
We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing contraceptives to those who otherwise…

March 18 2020, 11:50am | Comments
Bookmark Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online - The Verge
In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over…

February 8 2018, 7:07am | Comments
Bookmark Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed,…
There is no doubt that Sci-Hub, the infamous—and, according to a U.S. court, illegal—online repository of pirated research papers, is enormously popular. (See Science’s investigation last year of who is downloading…

July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments
Bookmark When a 'Remix' Is Plain Ole Plagiarism - The Atlantic
Digital technologies make it easier for people to copy the work of other artists—yet the same tools make it more likely for them to get caught. The messages began rolling in…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you…
Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10…

January 28 2017, 4:33am | Comments
Bookmark Pirates are now using YouTube's panoramic videos to hide whole movies -…
Versions is the essential guide to virtual reality and beyond. It investigates the rapidly deteriorating boundary between the real world and the one behind the screen. Versions launched in 2016 at…

July 2 2016, 9:49am | Comments
Bookmark The Rise of Pirate Libraries | Atlas Obscura
Only a tiny fraction of the world's knowledge. (Photo: David Iliff/CC-BY-SA-3.0) All around the world, shadow libraries keep growing, filled with banned materials.

May 9 2016, 1:16am | Comments
Bookmark In the Name of Humanity | Limn
The total archive is already here, Balázs Bodó finds it hidden in the shadows and run by pirates. As I write this in August 2015, we are in the middle of…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark The Research Pirates of the Dark Web - The Atlantic
There’s a battle raging over whether academic research should be free, and it’s overflowing into the dark web.

February 16 2016, 8:17am | Comments
Bookmark The Ingenious Way The Pirate Bay Avoids The Police - Business Insider
Flickr/SHARE ConferenceThe staff of The Pirate Bay has revealed how the notorious file-sharing site uses a clever mix of servers to avoid detection and police raids.

October 7 2014, 1:53am | Comments
Portfolio What makes out today’s notworking is the social glitch

November 7 2013, 7:16am | Comments
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September 26 2013, 6:59am | Comments
Projects HARDCORE SOFTWARE : PIRACY TODAY
Hardcore Software presents Piracy Today, a platform for actions an interventions that challenge our dominant cultural order. The pilot exhibition presents work by four artists and practitioners who use piracy to interrogate patterns of cultural transmission. http://hardcoresoftware.org/ Wednesday 28 August 2013 | 6-10pm Open…

September 7 2013, 6:24am | Comments
Bookmark The Walled City: Cannot one dream of a ‘computer hypothesis’? | Radical…
This essay is in many ways a companion piece to Gary Hall’s ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’ in RP 173 (May/June 2012). Consider it a prequel, or something akin to a video game’s…

August 29 2012, 2:11am | Comments
Bookmark War and Peace ebook readers find a surprise in its Nooks
A few days ago a blogger who identifies himself as just "Philip" took to his site to recount his experience of reading War and Peace – specifically, a 99¢ version as…

June 15 2012, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation
A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think…

March 28 2012, 3:42am | Comments
Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection on Hito Steyerl's proposal) Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of compressed, corrupted representations pushed and pulled through increasingly policed and capitalised information networks. If 80%…

February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments
Bookmark What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy
It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied an…

January 30 2012, 4:28pm | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
The Pirate Bay - Physibles

January 24 2012, 2:11pm | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy

January 19 2012, 7:08am | Comments
Bookmark Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained
Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of the world's newest religion, Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. On 5 January the Church of Kopimism was formally recognised as a religion by the Swedish government.…

January 15 2012, 1:32pm | Comments
Twitter Favourites
The P2P Foundation Books of the Year 2011

January 9 2012, 1:36am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

January 4 2012, 9:52am | Comments
Bookmark Information Wants to be Consumed
Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what Benjamin…

August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments
Bookmark Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?
There’s a new online threat to writing. Critics of the web like to blame email, texts, and chat for killing prose. Even blogs—present company included—don’t escape their wrath. But in fact…

July 25 2011, 2:46am | Comments

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