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Domain: plagiarist.org
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Comments · 7
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Re:If one explains in plain english how to do it..
How about if someone sings it?
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Here are mirrors:http://yesiwill.plagiarist.org
http://detritus/projects/yesiwill
Let's see how well they survive a slashdotting.
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Re:Can they do anything about this?We at The Original Plagiarist.org are pleased to provide The DeCSS Song for your listening pleasure. Part of the full "Naughty Bits - The DeCSS Uncensored Art Show," linkable from the plagiarist.org homepage. (It would have a direct link, but there is of course the requisite Net Art License Agreement to deal with first - can't be too careful where IP issues are concerned, you know....)
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Re:Can they do anything about this?We at The Original Plagiarist.org are pleased to provide The DeCSS Song for your listening pleasure. Part of the full "Naughty Bits - The DeCSS Uncensored Art Show," linkable from the plagiarist.org homepage. (It would have a direct link, but there is of course the requisite Net Art License Agreement to deal with first - can't be too careful where IP issues are concerned, you know....)
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Re:DeArt Nominee...wow, there's a rash of these...
DeCSS sure is beautiful lyrics, ain't it???
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It's corporate censorship of free speech - again!The corporations have decided that they own the Internet of course, and nobody is going to interfere with that.
Take the recent case of plagiarist.org... the artist responsible for the site did a piece called Plagiarist Acquisitions in which plagiarist.org pretended to have "acquired" 27 of the world's largest corporations, in a spoof of neverending corporate takeovers. DuPont, one of the "acquired" companies, didn't like it. But, rather than sending a letter to plagiarist.org outlining legal reasons for their complaint, they took the shortcut - their legal department made phone calls and sent faxes full of largely irrelevant and unrelated documents to the artists' employer, saying that plagiarist.org had associated DuPont and the other companies with threatening and violent content. They sent a page from an unrelated website in which some entirely unrelated person called "plagiarist" had made death threats against the public relations director of the Jewish Defense league. When the artist, forced to remove the piece by the employer (who evidently was serving as ISP) posted a commentary documenting the situation, DuPont sent another fax requesting that be removed too (though that appears to still be there.) A more detailed story of this is archived at rhizome.org.
This type of censorship has been going on for years... take a look at this 1996 Associated Press article about the PR Firm of Middleberg and Associates, who evidently take pride in helping corporations intimidate people commit acts of free speech. And Markwatch a big-brotheresque corporate trademark monitoring service, who takes pride in spying on every nook and cranny of the web and newsgroups for mentions of product trademarks.... have you checked your web server logs for their sniffers? They are in mine!
Basically, the Corporations have decided they are going to do to dissenting voices on the Internet what they did to Public Access TV, and it is going to take massive and continual Bad PR about them to turn the tide.
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It's corporate censorship of free speech - again!The corporations have decided that they own the Internet of course, and nobody is going to interfere with that.
Take the recent case of plagiarist.org... the artist responsible for the site did a piece called Plagiarist Acquisitions in which plagiarist.org pretended to have "acquired" 27 of the world's largest corporations, in a spoof of neverending corporate takeovers. DuPont, one of the "acquired" companies, didn't like it. But, rather than sending a letter to plagiarist.org outlining legal reasons for their complaint, they took the shortcut - their legal department made phone calls and sent faxes full of largely irrelevant and unrelated documents to the artists' employer, saying that plagiarist.org had associated DuPont and the other companies with threatening and violent content. They sent a page from an unrelated website in which some entirely unrelated person called "plagiarist" had made death threats against the public relations director of the Jewish Defense league. When the artist, forced to remove the piece by the employer (who evidently was serving as ISP) posted a commentary documenting the situation, DuPont sent another fax requesting that be removed too (though that appears to still be there.) A more detailed story of this is archived at rhizome.org.
This type of censorship has been going on for years... take a look at this 1996 Associated Press article about the PR Firm of Middleberg and Associates, who evidently take pride in helping corporations intimidate people commit acts of free speech. And Markwatch a big-brotheresque corporate trademark monitoring service, who takes pride in spying on every nook and cranny of the web and newsgroups for mentions of product trademarks.... have you checked your web server logs for their sniffers? They are in mine!
Basically, the Corporations have decided they are going to do to dissenting voices on the Internet what they did to Public Access TV, and it is going to take massive and continual Bad PR about them to turn the tide.