![]() The story of Robin Hood is one of England’s most famous legends. This version, compiled from classic versions of the tale, including Joseph Cundall’s British version of 1842, retains the high adventure of the hero expressed in rich language delivered through the eyes of The story of Robin Hood is one of England’s most famous legends. Its appeal is its tale of the universal desire for fairness and justice, especially in times of tyranny. This version, compiled from classic versions of the tale, including Joseph Cundall’s British version of 1842, retains the high adventure of the hero expressed in rich language delivered through the eyes of a schoolboy telling the story of Robin Hood to hisĬlassmates. Historical events from the days of Robin Hood are also included. The famous artist Greg Ruhl’s elegant illustrations captivate the heart of the reader with images that make the story come alive in a child’s imagination.On the edge of the digital frontier, far from the oceans of their maritime namesakes, pirate communities flourish. Called outlaws and thieves, these file-sharers practice a vernacular tradition of digital piracy in the face of overwhelming state power. This article argues that pirate culture is more nuanced than popularly depicted and that, through traditional practice, piracy is a vernacular performance of resistance.įor file-sharers who embrace it, the pirate identity is a discursively-constructed composite that enables users to draw upon (and create) outlaw folk hero traditions to express themselves and affect small-scale change in the world around them.īased on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with Warez Scene cracking groups and the Kickass Torrents community, this article locates piracy discourse as a site of contested identity. RésuméĪu bord de la frontière numérique, loin des océans de leurs homonymes maritimes, les communautés de pirates fleurissent. Appelés hors-la-loi et voleurs, ces partageurs de fichiers pratiquent une tradition vernaculaire de piratage numérique face à un pouvoir étatique accablant. Basé sur un travail de terrain ethnographique mené avec des groupes de craquage de la scène Warez et la communauté Kickass Torrents, cet article situe le discours de la piraterie comme un site d’identité contestée. Pour les utilisateurs de fichiers qui l’adoptent, l’identité de pirate est un composite construit de manière discursive qui permet aux utilisateurs de s’inspirer (et de créer) des traditions de héros folkloriques hors-la-loi pour s’exprimer et affecter les changements à petite échelle dans le monde qui les entoure. I have pirated movies for my grandma, pirated Cet article soutient que la culture pirate est plus nuancée que ce que l’on dépeint et que, par la pratique traditionnelle, la piraterie est une performance vernaculaire de résistance. Software for my dad to get back to work, pirated music for my mom, and much more. That shitty comedy that you know is crap but watch on your TV, pirating that new Justinīieber album for your kids even though you hate the guy, or catching up on your favorite Way of life, and a feeling of freedom that nothing else can offer. TV show new or old, it will always be there for you. Ideologically motivated, it constituted nothing less than their raison d’être, while for other Katians it was a mundane aspect of their day, akin to going to the store Charsi, May 8, 2016įor many people at Kickass Torrents (KAT), breaking the law through copyright Of the risks involved and approached piracy as a calculated strategy, as a way of “working Yet Katians, as in Charsi’s epigraph, were well aware Katians casually discussed and practised piracy amidst theĮver-present danger of legal action. These repeated individual acts of protest form (as As tEktwo put it, “Pirating is not a crime, it is a It is constituted of small acts, each imbued with symbolic significance but predicated Infringement-oriented way of life rarely includes flashy or large-scale movements rather, The system.to their minimum disadvantage” (Hobsbawm quoted in Scott 1985: xv). Well as draw upon) a tradition of resistance.
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