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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/oto18 on 2025-01-28 12:28:43+00:00.


I am currently working on my dissertation for my Media degree and my topic is on digital piracy. I am looking for case studies regarding the benefits of digital piracy in three areas; academic, music and visual media. So far I have a good amount of research for academic and music piracy but I am struggling to find cases of visual media piracy. I was wondering if anyone had any interesting cases that would apply here.

To explain, for example, with academic piracy I’m looking at Sci-Hub and academic knowledge in the Global South. For visual media I was thinking along the lines of how Akira brought anime to the West (this wasn’t due to digital piracy from what I’ve read but if anyone knows otherwise I’d love to hear about it!) Any cases or examples you can think of would be a massive help and I’m happy to clarify anything in the comments :)