[aha] Call for support: Pirates of the Amazon,taken down by Amazon.com

[traum_a at humanoid.net]

 Sono d'accordo.
Censura in rete ma non solo, visto che come Epto ci ha fatto giustamente
vedere al CAmp, i piani di controllo e censura telematica e fisica si
intrecciano molto frequentemente..
mi associo al tentativo di diffusione,
un bacio

Traum_A.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "gadda1944"
  To: aha
  Subject: Re:[aha] Call for support: Pirates of the Amazon,taken down
  by Amazon.com
  Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:23:39 +0100


  Be', lavoro brillante (quello dei due studenti) e notizia grave
  (quella del take down ispirato da Amazon: take down efficace, visto
  che l'indirizzo www.pirates-of-the-amazon.com mi genera sul browser
  un 404, insomma ilo sito è chiuso).

  Perché aha non prova a mettere in piedi una specie di centro
  informazioni sulla censura in rete? Abbiamo i contributi di Epto,
  xD e altri. Il comunicato di jaromil e Cramer merita di essere
  diffuso il più possibile. Nel mio piccolo, vedrò cosa fare.

  g.

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  Date : Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:39:57 +0100
  Subject : [aha] Call for support: Pirates of the Amazon, taken down
  by Amazon.com







  > Di seguito vi riporto la richiesta di supporto per un lavoro
  > interessante creato da due ragazzi a Rotterdam che è stato subito
  > bloccato da interventi legali.
  >
  > Il progetto si chiama Pirates of Amazon
  > http://www.pirates-of-the-amazon.com/, si tratta di un Add on di
  firefox
  > che se installato inserisce nelle pagine del sito Amazon un grande
  > bottone con la scritta "Download for free". Praticamente se
  > cercate di aquistare un film o un dvd il componente in backgroud
  > effettua una
  > ricerca su The Pirate Bay http://thepiratebay.org/ e restituisce il
  > primo link che trova collegandolo al bottone che inserisce da cui
  potete
  > scaricare il file torrent corrispondente. Messo online introno al
  30
  > Novembre, le reazioni di Amazon non si sono fatte aspettare.
  >
  > Di seguito la call per il supporto all'operazione:
  >
  > re all,
  >
  > (with apologies for crossposting)
  >
  > Many spectres might already have read about
  > www.pirates-of-the-amazon.com. The website provided a Firefox
  add-on
  > that changed the experience of browsing Amazon.com by putting a
  slick
  > "Download 4 Free" button on top of every product - whether a CD,
  DVD
  > or book - also listed as a bittorrent on The Pirate Bay. Clicking
  the
  > button on the Amazon.com product page for, say, Madonna's latest
  album
  > would yield a background search on The Pirate Bay and start up a
  > bittorrent client to download a corresponding torrent.
  >
  > After being published this Monday, the project made headline news
  on
  > digg.com
  >
  > and has been covered among others by CNET
  > , the Washington
  > Post
  >
  > and currently more than 1000 blog entries worldwide.
  >
  > Via its provider, the project received a take down request by the
  > lawyers of Amazon.com yesterday. In our point of view, the legal
  > grounds for that are contestable since the add-on itself did not
  > download anything. It only provided a user interface link between
  the
  > web sites Amazon.com and thepiratebay.org. Nevertheless, the
  creators
  > complied to the request, taking both the add-on and original web
  site
  > offline.
  >
  > What is perhaps more disturbing however, are the openly hostile and
  > aggressive Internet user comments in blogs and on digg.com. Unlike
  in
  > a comparable situation only a couple of years ago, the majority of
  > commentators failed to see the highly parodistic and artistic
  nature
  > of "Pirates of the Amazon". The project was created by two students
  > at the Media Design M.A. department of the Piet Zwart Institute
  > Rotterdam, one of them being a student in the course, the other
  being
  > an exchange student from the New Media programme of Merz Akademie
  > Stuttgart. The work was part of a regular trimester project. We -
  > jaromil, the project tutor, and Florian Cramer, the head of the
  course
  > - - were the academic supervisors of this work. We supported and
  > encouraged it from its early beginnings. What's more, we're proud
  to
  > have such students and such interesting work coming out of our
  > teaching.
  >
  > Apart from its humorous value and cleverness, the project is
  > interesting on many levels and layers: For example, not just as a
  > funny artistic hack of Amazon.com and The Pirate Bay, but also as a
  > critique of mainstream media consumer culture creating the great
  > "content" overlap between the two sites. We clearly see this
  project
  > as a practical media experiment and artistic design investigation
  into
  > the status of media creation, distribution and consumption on the
  > Internet.
  >
  > With the take down notice from Amazon.com, our students have been
  > scared away from pursuing their art, research and learning in our
  > institute. We do not want a culture in which students have to
  > preemptively censor their study because their work confronts
  culture
  > with controversial and challenging issues.
  >
  > We would like to gather statements in support of the "Pirates of
  the
  > Amazon". The students are turning their web sites into a
  documentation
  > of their project and the reactions it triggered. If you would like
  to
  > support them and contribute a short statement, please get in touch
  > with us.
  >
  > Florian Cramer & jaromil
  >
  >
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