Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy, by Martin Paul Eve

EPUB version

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This repo contains the text files for my EPUB conversion of Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy, originally published by punctum books and re-released here, somewhat ironically, with the permission of the author.

Warez, like nearly all of punctum’s books, was originally released as a free PDF, but I found that format difficult to read on my phone. Since it was released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International licence, I took the liberty of format-shifting the text. punctum books co-director Eileen Joy has previously indicated that they’re cool with that.

Special thanks of course to Martin Paul Eve and punctum for releasing the book under a permissive licence that allows this knowledge to be shared. I’ve made a donation to punctum to support their work, and if you download the EPUB version I encourage you to do the same.

Build process

I use pandoc to generate the ebook from the markdown files. I grabbed the text from the original PDF and, for the most part, edited it by hand.

pandoc -o warez.epub \
  00-preface.md \
  01-original-pirate-material.md \
  02-setting-the-scene.md \
  03-infrastructures-of-the-scene.md \
  04-organization.md \
  05-aesthetics.md \
  06-takedowns.md \
  07-conclusion.md \
  appendix.md \
  bibliography.md \
  --reference-location=section \
  --file-scope

The --reference-location and --file-scope flags are necessary to properly parse the footnotes in each chapter file. If you run the conversion without them, then you get a pandoc error where the footnote numbers conflict, because they re-start at 1 with each chapter.

Relevant links

• Buy the book: Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
• Author: Martin Paul Eve
• Publisher: punctum books
• Creating an ebook with pandoc
• pandoc manual for epubs