dear etoy.SHAREHOLDER, FRIEND, TOYWAR-ACTIVIST,


after sending out the TOYWAR game invitation (on friday 
/ last seconds of the old century) a neutral research 
commission found out that more than 80 percent of all 
recruited TOY-AGENTS failed the registration process.

the etoy.RECRUITERS encourage all of you to try hard. 
it is just a question of your connections (an invitation 
from another subscribed toy-soldier is needed), 
intelligence, and endurance to enter the etoy.RESTISTANCE 
platform http://www.toywar.com . we hope the community 
understands that we can not accept every curious user in 
this extreme media war zone. etoy has to protect itself 
from spies, enemies and naive terrorists. that's why this 
selection takes a few days before the actual battle 
starts. etoy can not risk digital suicides and the injury 
of innocent and unexperienced users. as soon as the first 
700 elite pioneers have formed a strong TOY-TROOP and have 
organized the battle field the next round will start. we 
keep you updated. ... as soon as the first toy-bombs are 
ticking on TOYWAR.com we will issue TOYWAR-GUEST-ACCOUNTS 
for standard users (without permission to fight) just to 
observe the net art activities from save seats behind 
bulletproof windows. in a few days you can also purchase 
guest accounts at the official TOYWAR-SHOP for 4.99$. 

http://www.toywar.com/shop also offers the official toywar
sound track cd "lullabies for toywar.com". CHECK IT OUT!
 

AND WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE LAWSUIT  ?
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hundreds of congratulation emails arrived at etoy.TANK17...
the underground press titled "glamorous victory of the 
etoy.CORPORATION (net art giant) over eToys (plastic toy 
giant)" after wired news reported that eToys Inc. thinks about 
dropping the lawsuit against the etoy.CORPORATION.

this message rushed trough the news last week:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33330,00.html

etoy was not able to answer questions yet.
.... here is our official press statement:

according to our lawyer chris truax the situation is not 
completely clear. we follow the contradictional statements 
in the press... and we have the impression that eToys wants 
to play the good guy now after they saw that the 
destruction of etoy failed and their massive pressure on 
the art group provoked a load of bad press (over 100 
articles worldwide) and drove their stock down (wired news). 
it seems they want to look better than they are. we have 
the strongest impression that the statements they make to 
the press and the ones they make to our lawyers are not 
100% identical:

wired.com HEADLINE No.1 on december 30, 1999
etoy: 'The Fight Isn't Over"
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33338,00.html

we do not reject talking to eToys but we donīt trust them so 
far. first they try to kill us (by spending maybe half a 
million dollars on lawyers), and now they try to turn back 
the clock and say ...oh this was just a little misunderstanding!?

did we miss something?

two weeks ago we received a 30 pages fax from one of the 
biggest newspapers in the us (they got the document from eToys) 
with the request to comment on the submitted material. eToys 
quoted the terms "offensive, depraved, insane, obscene, 
prurient, perverse, destructive, anarchistic, rebellious and 
anti-social in nature" in direct connection with the 
etoy.CORPORATION. they sent out screen shots of some awarded 
and ironic web art services which were not even posted on the 
etoy.com site since eToys started to operate in 1997.

at the same time they offer a cute little plastic soldier of 
the german SS troops on the eToys site (we dont like this like 
they dont like the word "f*ck"...)
http://www.etoys.com/cgi-bin/buzz.pl?sku=1012690&store=et

the board decided to leave communication with eToys to our 
lawyers. in the meantime the etoy.CREW concentrates on the 
TOYWAR.community and offers etoy.POINTS to everybody who helps 
to protect the etoy.com property (with legal tools).

while eToys is using the money from their shareholders to pay 
the extreme expenses of this lawsuit we developed a new avant 
garde art product called etoy.POINTS. the etoy.POINTS are not 
etoy.SHARES! they just represent the etoy.CULTURE-VALUE in a very 
abstract way. there is no connection to financial markets: IT IS 
ART and we do not force anybody to love it ! but we sell etoy.POINTS 
to those who like us. they donīt get anything but ART! ...ok: maybe 
it also gives them the feeling that they support the right side... 
it could be seen as an "investment" in a higher sense... but itīs 
not a real(!) investment. 

...we "left reality behind" ... long time ago...

note: etoy.POINTS are NOT etoy.SHARES and NOT apples or 
anything else.


we hope to see you on toywar.com... 

your etoy.AGENTS



etoy: generating cultural value & global impact     ...since 1994


ps: the etoy.BOARD is taking a break. we do not respond to your 
emails till january 7, 2000. in case of emergency: send sms messages 
to our cell phones: urgent@toybomb.com (max 160 caracters!)

but first: visit the TOYWAR.shop: http://www.toywar.com/shop

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