The Pirate's Code: How Rules Dictate the Deviance of Music Consumption on What.CD.

The article focuses on rules dictate the deviance of music consumption on What.CD, a website that hosts a private bittorrent community. It mentions affordances and mechanisms of What.CD with the goal of finding linkages between technical apparatuses and their broader social implications. It also mentions economic and purely technical aspects of bittorrent trackers and cultural impacts of such technologies and the communities.