THE PIRATE CINEMA ACT 3 COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

THE PIRATE CINEMA ACT 3 COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT focuses on the Metallica versus Napster case of the early 2000s. Metallica vs. Napster, Inc. was the first law suit that involved artists suing a peer to peer file sharing software company. This proved to be a major turning point in the history of P2P file sharing, causing the eventual shut down of Napster. The following sounds are based on the activity monitored among users currently sharing Metallica albums. ABOUT THE PIRATE CINEMA PROJECT: In the context of omnipresent telecommunications surveillance, The Pirate Cinema makes the hidden activity and geography of PeertoPeer file sharing visible. The project is presented as a monitoring room, which shows PeertoPeer transfers happening in real time on networks using the BitTorrent protocol. The installation produces an arbitrary cutup of the files currently being exchanged. This immediate and fragmentary rendering of digital activity, with information concerning its source and destination, thus