“Plunderphonics is any music made by taking one or more existing audio recordings and altering them in some way to make a new composition. The term was coined by composer John Oswald in 1985 in his essay Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. Plunderphonics can be considered a form of sound collage.”
Digital hardcore and Plunderphonics share a similar philosophy in the wayy that they view sampling as a weapon against the capitalist concept of copyright and the overtly tedious music industry that a lot of sound exists in. This creates and an anarchic mentality where nothing is out of the public domain and doesn’t have to pay to get a sample cleared, which gives access to less affluent communities the ability to create music without being behind a paywall.