A compilation of stories about sharing, distributing and experiencing cultural contents outside the boundaries of local economies, politics, or laws.
EDITED BY Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska - 2015
FORMAT 238 pages - A5 - colour - english - (print on demand + free pdf)
CONTRIBUTORS Jota Izquierdo, Christopher Kirkley, Marie Lechner, Pedro Mizukami, Ernesto Oroza, Clément Renaud, Ishita Tiwary, Ernesto Van der Sar (torrentfreak.com) & Michaël Zumstein
RELEASED in the framework of Masters & Servers
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This work offers a broad view on media piracy as well as a variety of comparative perspectives on recent issues and historical facts regarding piracy. It contains a compilation of texts on grassroots situations whose stories describe strategies developed to share, distribute and experience cultural content outside of the confines of local economies, politics or laws. These stories recount the experiences of individuals from India, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Mali and China. The book is structured in four parts and begins with a collection of stories on piracy dating back to the invention of the printing press and expanding to broader issues (historical and modern anti-piracy technologies, geographically specific issues, as well as the rules of the Warez scene, its charters, structure and visual culture…).
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BOOK-DOWNLOAD http://thepiratebook.net/category/order-download/
PRESS-KIT https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r8x7p11dcsk9xs4/AACCMS4kR8D606X26vD9McM0a?dl=0#
PRESS-KIT (ZIP 60MB) http://thepiratebook.net/The_Pirate_Book_Press_Release.zip
IMAGES https://www.flickr.com/photos/n1c0la5ma1gr3t/albums/72157660150039749
CONTACT ping@thepiratecinema.com
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Published by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana / www.aksioma.org
Co-published by Pavillon Vendôme Art Center, Clichy
Produced by Aksioma, Pavillon Vendôme, Kunsthal Aarhus, and Abandon Normal Devices
Design: Maria Roszkowska - Translation: Themba Bhebhe - Proofreading: Philip Jan Nagel
Credits: All texts are copyleft - images are subject to their original licenses.
Supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, and the Municipality of Ljubljana
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
