Piracy for Good is a counter-narrative campaign that explores the positive side of piracy. Instead of the tired old negative framing from “You wouldn’t steal a car”, it flips the script to show why piracy can actually create access, preserve cultural artifacts, and fight censorship.

The motivation for this project comes from my interest in the wider debate surrounding intellectual property, and how legal frameworks that favour large companies affect the media I love and its creators. But piracy serves everyone differently. For some, piracy is a means to engage freely with academia and culture from around the globe despite censorship.

In my campaign, internet users are guided through the topic and encouraged to engage with piracy in an informed, ethical manner. Outputs are mostly web-based, but the publication is designed to be downloadable, so that anyone can print and staple it themselves - no hard cover or complicated structure, just simple duplication.