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- Title
BITTORRENT SOFTWARE AND USAGE.
- Authors
McKinney, Justin; Haydn, Mark Simon
- Abstract
While the circulation of cultural material outside of official channels is not new, the scale and infrastructure afforded by digital networks and peer-to-peer protocols has drastically changed its dynamics. Focusing on private trackers and online, members-only communities dedicated to sharing difficult to find and "gray-area" cinema content, our paper discusses new digital repositories and their connection to the traditional film archive. With discussion of the types of materials held, user participation, and custodial efforts to restore or improve cultural material, we will discuss the activities of a contemporary private tracker community. Additionally, the paper will interrogate the legality and copyright issues surrounding these activities and explore recent, licit adoption of the infrastructure that has been developed for online circulation. Discussion will conclude with attention to cases in which pirated material has resurfaced in a rights-holding context, and an assessment of what these developments mean for custodians of film material working in a traditional film archive context. As a combination of discussion, case study, and argument, the paper will serve as a topical primer on a pressing and under-researched area of interest in this field, building on a panel presented at last year's Association of Moving Image Archivists conference in Georgia.
- Subjects
FILM archives administration; CULTURAL materialism; ASSOCIATION of Moving Image Archivists; ARCHIVIST associations; ARCHIVES associations
- Publication
IASA Journal, 2015, Issue 45, p38
- ISSN
1021-562X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35320/ij.v0i45.82