Series:Filesharing

Topics

peer-to-peer, torrent.

Communities

General: The Pirate Bay, UbuWeb.
Films: Karagarga, Cinematik, Surreal Moviez, Cinemageddon.
Music: What.cd, Waffles.fm.
E-books: Aaaarg, Library.nu, Monoskop/log, Bibliotik, Textz.com, Silent Library.

Projects

• The Piracy Project by AND Publishing and Andrea Francke, [1] [2]
• AAAARG Library, a site-specific installation, in conjunction with the the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, 2010. [3]

Events

• "Libraries, Access to Knowledge, and Self-Learning: From the Library of Alexandria to aaaaarg.org" panel at MobilityShifts summit, New York, October 2011. [4]
• "Materialities of Text: Between the Codex & the Net", 24 Oct–4 Nov 2011, an online conference co-organised by Sas Mays and Nick Thoburn, [5]

Publications

• Florian Cramer, "Peer-to-Peer Services: Transgressing the archive (and its maladies?)", [6]

On e-books filesharing

• Sam Spade, "Elnémult a Csendes könyvtár", Aug 2005. (Hungarian) [7]
• Julian Myers, "Four Dialogues 2: On AAAARG", Aug 2009. [8]
• Janneke Adema, "Scanners, collectors and aggregators. On the ‘underground movement’ of (pirated) theory text sharing", Sep 2009. [9]
• Morgan Currie, "Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray", Jan 2010. [10]
• "The AAAARG.org Discussion of the Macmillan Threat", Apr 2010. [11]
• -empyre- list, "Publishing In Convergence" mailing list discussion moderated by Michael Deiter, Morgan Currie and John Haltiwanger, Jun 2010. [12]
• Matthew Fuller, "In the Paradise of Too Many Books: An Interview with Sean Dockray", Mute magazine, May 2011. [13]
• Gary Hall, Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now, 2008. [14]

Related categories

Copyright activism.

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