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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 359 - 383 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2012
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