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Welcome to the Scene: A Study of Social Organization and Recognition among Warez Hackers.

Objectives. This article seeks to describe and understand the social organization as well as the distribution of recognition in the online community (also known as the warez scene) of hackers who illegally distribute intellectual property online. Method. The data were collected from an online index...

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Published in:Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 359 - 383
Main Authors: Hétu, David Décary-, Morselli, Carlo, Leman-Langlois, Stéphane
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Aug2012
Subjects:
Computer crimes
Intellectual property
Criminal behavior > Social aspects
Social structure
Ethnographic analysis
Societies
Computer hackers
Computer hacking
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