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Gabriele Svelto
@gabrielesvelto@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I'm convinced that in the history books we'll credit BitTorrent for having preserved a significant chunk of humanity's cultural production

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Karis
@qaris@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span gabrielesvelto

p2p ftw!!! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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tom jennings
@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span gabrielesvelto

.... And all those DRM'd titles rot into obscurity.

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binchicken
@thegarbagebird@theblower.au replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span gabrielesvelto the pirate’s life for me
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Gabriele Svelto
@gabrielesvelto@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span thegarbagebird harrrr matey!
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🌹🔪Big Tuff Al🌹💪
@bigtuffal@dice.camp replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span gabrielesvelto i pity the poor archivists who end up having to pour through this vapid nazi culture trying to figure out what happened

'oh thanks to the ancient heroes at internet archive, we can see how Young Sheldon Season 3 was the final straw for nazification-'

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Frank Skornia
@fskornia@glammr.us replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span gabrielesvelto As someone that does digital archival work, the skills I learned ripping DVDs illegitimately and dealing with the panopoly of video codecs and formats in the early 00s have been invaluable.
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Else, Someone
@nobody@mastodon.acm.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span gabrielesvelto
#annasarchive #libgen #librarygenesis #scihub #internetarchive #torrent #piracy #copyright #intellectualproperty #elsevier #academia
annas-archive website citing:

“The lost cannot be recovered; but let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use, in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.”

— Thomas Jefferson, 1791
annas-archive website citing: “The lost cannot be recovered; but let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use, in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1791
annas-archive website citing: “The lost cannot be recovered; but let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use, in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1791
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Pete
@pete@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span gabrielesvelto

I thought you had it!

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Diane
@alienghic@timeloop.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span gabrielesvelto

"Piracy Is the Future of Culture: Speculating about Media Preservation after Collapse"

Pirate copy of the paper
https://monoskop.org/images/f/f9/De_Kosnik_Abigail_2019_Piracy_Is_the_Future_of_Culture_Speculating_about_Media_Preservation_after_Collapse.pdf

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