File sharing

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Initiatives

• General: The Pirate Bay, UbuWeb, more.
• Films: Karagarga, Cinematik, Surreal Moviez, Cinemageddon, more.
• Music: What.cd, Waffles.fm, more.
• E-books: Aaaarg, Monoskop Log, Memory of the World, Bibliotik, Textz.com, Silent Library, Library.nu (closed down), more.

One-off projects

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

Electronic libraries-related events

• Libraries, Access to Knowledge, and Self-Learning: From the Library of Alexandria to aaaaarg.org panel at MobilityShifts summit, New York, Oct 2011.
• HAIP 2012: Public Library / Javna knjižnica, 28-30 Nov 2012. [2], Video documentation.
• Hack the biblio! Construir bibliotecas publicas, Calafou, 17-21 Apr 2014.
• Underground e-publishing, session within Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts conference, WORM, Rotterdam, 23 May 2014.
• Public Library, conference and exhibition, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 30 Oct-30 Nov 2014.

Literature

• Florian Cramer, "Peer-to-Peer Services: Transgressing the archive (and its maladies?)".
• http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Studies_on_file_sharing_eng
• Publications on file sharing at Monoskop Log

On electronic libraries

• Sam Spade, "Elnémult a Csendes könyvtár", Aug 2005. (in Hungarian)
• Gary Hall, Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now, 2008.
• Julian Myers, "Four Dialogues 2: On AAAARG", Aug 2009.
• Janneke Adema, "Scanners, collectors and aggregators. On the ‘underground movement’ of (pirated) theory text sharing", Sep 2009.
• Morgan Currie, "Small is Beautiful: a discussion with AAAARG architect Sean Dockray", Jan 2010.
• "The AAAARG.org Discussion of the Macmillan Threat", Apr 2010.
• "Publishing In Convergence", -empyre- list discussion moderated by Michael Deiter, Morgan Currie and John Haltiwanger, Jun 2010.
• Matthew Fuller, "In the Paradise of Too Many Books: An Interview with Sean Dockray", Mute magazine, May 2011.
• Tribuna: Special issue on Open Access: HAIP 2012 addendum, December 2012. (Slovenian)
• New Formations, No. 78: "Materialities of text: between the codex and the net", Aug 2013. [3]
  • Jodi Dean, Sean Dockray, Alessandro Ludovico, Pauline van Mourik, Broekman, Nicholas Thoburn and Dmitry Vilensky, "Materialities of Independent Publishing: AConversation with AAAAARG, Chto Delat?, I Cite, Mute, and Neural", pp 157-178.
• Andre Meister, "Interviews with E-Book-Pirates: “The book publishing industry is repeating the same mistakes of the music industry”", Netzpolitik.org, 27 September 2013.

See also

Copyright activism, Digital humanities