Aram Sinnreich
Author, professor, and expert on digital piracy and file sharing; provides scholarly and practical insight into torrenting and its cultural and legal contexts.
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Apr 2, 2026 • 39min
News Post: A Primer on Torrenting
Aram Sinnreich, author and professor who studies digital piracy and file sharing, explains what torrenting really is. He discusses its use beyond piracy, corporate uses for large-file distribution, how industry PR turned it into a crime story, and ethical tradeoffs around access, surveillance, and decentralization.
