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online, the fear of social stigma or the risk of legal prosecution prevents most of us do so publicly. In 2015, book pirates decided to come out of the closet
and show unapologetic support for copyright infringement under certain circumstances (Barok et al., 2015). Open access guerillas are usually not copyright
abolitionists. Many of them are authors, creators, and as such, right holders themselves, and none of them is ignorant or dismissive about the present and
the past of intellectual property protection. They usually follow copyright rules, but not in all situations. This very fact of selective compliance, made public,
is in the core of their political agenda, expressed through manifestos, events, and most importantly in their piratical text collections. This paper provides
an ethnographic insight into the politics of contemporary guerilla open access movement.