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urn:uuid:b904a8eb-9c98-4bb1-bf25-3cb9d075b157 03 01 01 urn:uuid:b904a8eb-9c98-4bb1-bf25-3cb9d075b157 15 9781685710378 06 10.53288/0339.1.00 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Warez The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy 1 A01 21 0000-0002-5589-8511 Martin Paul Eve 01 eng 00 444 03 10 COM060040 12 JKVK 93 JKVM 20 piracy 10 COM079010 93 UBJ 12 UBW 20 warez 20 computing 93 JBCT1 12 JFD 20 hacking 20 history 20 software 20 internet security 01 06 03 00 When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and <italic>The Pirate Bay.</italic> These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media–music, videos, games, and software–before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free.<italic>Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy</italic> is the first scholarly book about this underground subculture, which began life in the pre-internet era Bulletin Board Systems and moved to internet File Transfer Protocol servers (“topsites”) in the mid- to late-1990s. “The Scene,” as it is known, is highly illegal in almost every aspect of its operations. The term “Warez” itself refers to pirated media, a derivative of “software.” Taking a deep dive into the documentary evidence produced by the Scene itself, <italic>Warez</italic> describes the operations and infrastructures of an underground culture with its own norms and rules of participation, its own forms of sociality, and its own artistic forms. Even though forms of digital piracy are often framed within the positive ideological terms of equal access to knowledge and culture, Eve uncovers in the Warez Scene a culture of competitive ranking and one-upmanship that is at odds with the often communalist interpretations of piracy.Broad in scope and novel in its approach, <italic>Warez</italic> is indispensible reading for anyone interested in recent developments in digital culture, access to knowledge and culture, and the infrastructures that support our digital age. 01 00 03 02 https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.53288/0339.1.00_frontcover.jpg Dead Letter Office 01 punctum books 16 Leverhulme Trust 01 programname Philip Leverhulme Prize Earth, Milky Way 04 19 2021 06 15 9781685710361 06 15 9781685710378 09 punctum books 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://punctumbooks.com/titles/warez-the-infrastructure-and-aesthetics-of-piracy/ 99 04 09 punctum books 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.53288/0339.1.00.pdf 99 04