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LibGen dataset, AI models and training piracy

Copyright laws vs. Meta. Use of LibGen dataset, “we know to be pirated” to train artificial intelligence models, including Llama. … More

ai, facebook, libgen, meta

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

2022, butterfly M, cahill-keyes, cartography, star-x

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).

mpa, notorious markets

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

blackAF, experiments, year in review

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

art, durational study, video art, warhol

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

2x platinum, music, ratings, spotify

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

music, spotify

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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