Archiving And Piracy - Saturday Full-Day Workshop

​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 Saturday session is a practical workshop on archiving, peer-to-peer filesharing, and piracy. One of our aims is to equip non-technical people with more technical literacy in this area, so please don’t be shy if this is you! We would love to have you at both or either. If possible please bring a laptop to this session.

​The day will be split into two halves with an hour's break for lunch. We aren't providing lunch but there should be a few snacks. :)