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Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)

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milchek · 1789716140 · focus · HN ↗
This is dense. I skimmed through hoping to see examples of the “aesthetics” with screenshots of old school installers (like the ones from Razor 1911, Class, Deviance etc) - it looks like these are scattered around the web, though. If anyone wants to relive some of the old chiptunes from these installers there’s <a href="https://archive.org/details/codex-installer-music-5-2018-03-192kbit-aac" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/codex-installer-music-5-2018-03-...
1. gravitronic · 1789788651 · focus · HN ↗
  Be sure to check out keygen music, still updated
  <a href="https://keygenmusic.tk/" rel="nofollow">https://keygenmusic.tk/
  1. ValdikSS · 1789819615 · focus · HN ↗
    There used to be a large site called keygenmusic.org, but it's closed now. There's a dump of all of its tracks on web archive: <a href="https://archive.org/details/key-gen-music-music-pack-2020-03-full.-7z_202403" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/key-gen-music-music-pack-2020-03...
  2. kristofferR · 1789823975 · focus · HN ↗
    Cool, will be spending hours today listening to it!
    Frankly .tk domain is as much of a nostalgia hit as the music, weren't aware it is still around.

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