About this Markdown Edition

• Warez The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy* was written by Martin Paul Eve

It was first published in 2021 by punctum books, a non-for-profit public benefit corporation. It was published both in print, as a a PDF using the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license.

While I am so appreciated to Martin and punctum for freely releasing the PDF, this format is not the most ideal for reading on a variety of devices. As such, I used some one-off software and some manual work to convert the PDF into Markdown.

Specifically I:

• Converted the PDF into plain text.
• Broken the chapters out into individual files.
• De-pagenated the text to remove the hard line wraps, and then un-hyphenated many of the words that were originally hyphened to span a line.
• Moved all footnotes to the end of each chapter
• Converted footnotes into Github Flavored Markdown Footnotes
• Extracted high resolution images from the PDF
• Converted block quotes, lists, and pre-formatted text into the Markdown equivalent, where appropriate.

What's Missing

The original work contained a 71 page Appendix, consistently almost entirely of a table describing all known Topsites from the shroo.ms nfo.sites collection. Due to the structure of PDFs, this did not convert cleanly into plain text. Reformatting all of this content into a Markdown table would be a tremendous amount of work, and personally I found this content of little value. If you wish to read the Appendix, you may consult the source PDF.