Archiving And Piracy - Thursday Talk

​Big Tech is suffocating education. Early hopes that the internet would be a democratising force for education have been squandered in the face of profit. Tech companies are accused of scraping journal articles for AI training that remain behind a paywall for us, the non-academic public. We navigate the internet on large social media platforms in digital walled gardens, but this is not all there is.

​For the past couple decades, shadow libraries and piracy have played a role in the battle for free and open access education. This series is designed to explore the principles and practical skills that could form the basis of personal pirate archiving to reclaim hopes that the internet could democratise education, now more important than ever. In moving outside the law, piracy provides an opportunity to think beyond the institution and more radically how education and archiving can work to promote open and free education.

​This series is split into two sessions: problem and remediation. This talk focuses Big Tech’s (re)structuring of information access online and its impact on personal education.