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'The Pirate Cinema' monitors popular torrents to create a video wall of piracy

'The Pirate Cinema' monitors popular torrents to create a video wall of piracy

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The Pirate Cinema is a cinematic collage or sorts. Its creators took torrent database The Pirate Bay's Top 100 video files and monitored each, creating small, fragmented clips based on traffic (torrents are transfered block-by-block in a somewhat random order). The resulting installation, which runs through to May 29th in Montreal's Eastern Bloc gallery, is a mash of sights and sounds, revealing the extent of global file sharing. Head over to We Make Money Not Art for an interview with co-creator Nicolas Maigret.