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

Sun Dec 7 12:51:58 CET 2008

diffondo anch'io
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2008/12/7 <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
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> 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
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> > 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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