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Piracy and Digital Film Culture

Snickars, Pelle LU orcid (2026) p.321-328
Abstract
Today file sharing via downloadable torrents might seem technologically redundant, even if numerous BitTorrent sites (as The Pirate Bay) are still operational. Nowadays, these foremost cater to moving images (TV series and feature films) since such content in its entirety is not provided by one single platform. This is, however, the case with music, and commercial services such as Apple Music and Spotify have become so omnipresent that file sharing of music has become obsolete. Despite such services, however, piracy is still around – but now in streaming formats.
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published
subject
keywords
film culture, film history, piracy, streaming media, The Pirate Bay, torrents
host publication
The Intellect Handbook of Nordic Cinema
editor
Iversen, Gunnar and Larsson, Mariah
pages
321 - 328
publisher
Intellect Press
ISBN
9781835952689
9781835952696
9781835952702
DOI
10.1386/9781835952689_28
language
English
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93d05580-7b87-4e50-84f9-eb24dbc1f201
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2026-05-07 18:21:43
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2026-05-27 03:24:00
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