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title: Download/Upload
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The next block of sessions focuses on large repositories of digital text, so called *shadow libraries*, that are technologically organised around actions of upload and download to and from server infrastructures. The sessions introduce learners to:

- workflows used in text sharing, collection-building and collection-maitaining;
- three shadow libraries: [Library Genesis](https://gen.lib.rus.ec), [Aaaaarg](https://aaaaarg.fail) and [Memory of the World](https://library.memoryoftheworld.org), and the legal pressures they face;
- politicising interventions that articulate practices of text sharing as massive, collective and commoning.

Learners will get acquainted with three shadow libraries that are created by communities of contributors and benefit a larger public. The fact that they maintain centralised repositories and they do not obfuscate their own existence entails a need for articulation of politics of collective disobedience and practice of collective custodianship.