Copyright laws vs. Meta. Use of LibGen dataset, “we know to be pirated” to train artificial intelligence models, including Llama. … More
Category: pirates
MPA Comments on Notorious Markets 2024
New top tracker sites, the master doc.
Star-X Summer 2022
Summer media objects, first looks. These visualizations represent peer clouds located on a Cahill-Keyes Butterfly M projection of the world, … More
D-Ban, D-Generation, Viral Structure of Piracy, Pirate Cosmopolitanism
Essential analysis of China and peer culture vs. media intersections. Jinying Li, NYU/Brown. Piracy Cultures| From “D-Buffs” to the “D-Generation”: … More
MPA Comments on Notorious Markets 2021
From this post on TorrentFreak. (And the direct link to the pdf).
Year 2020 in Review
Between January 1 and December 31 2020, the alpha60 team sampled between 55 and 60 media properties. Of these, 55 … More
Who Pirates Warhol Video Art?
Curious, the alpha60 team has been sampling in this space for the last four years. As a special end of … More
Black is King Certified 2x Pirate Platinum
Quick update on Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s Black is King: in the last week it accumulated more than two million unique peers since … More
Black is King Certified Pirate Platinum
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s Black is King is sampling very well, with more than 1.2M cumulative unique peers in August, and is … More
alpha60-metadata
Introducing alpha60-metadata, an effort to tag media properities with metadata for cast etnicities, genders, sexualities and plot and genre keywords. … More

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