Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)

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When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. The term “Warez” itself refers to pirated media, a derivative of “software. ” Taking a deep dive in the documentary evidence produced by the Scene itself, Warez describes the operations and infrastructures an underground culture with its own norms and rules of participation, its own forms of sociality, and its own artistic forms.

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