LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!

Virtual Sit-In against www.eToys.com

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INFO:

http://www.rtmark.com/sitin.html

WHEN:

December 15 - 25, 1999
Game Times:

(Every day December 15 - 25)
in Pacific Standard Time:

12 - 12:15pm,
2-2:15pm, 4-4:15pm,
6-6:15pm, 8-8:15pm

(These are key times; also, ANYTIME Noon-11pm PST)

World Time:



http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=15&month=12&year=1999&hour=12&min

)0&sec=0&p1=137

URL for sit-in will be posted here

http://www.rtmark.com/sitin.html
or
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html

Beginning December 15, 11:45 a.m.
Pacific Standard Time.

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Fake_Statement

The end of the net as we know it?

No one could have dreamt up an act
more symbolic than this one by
Etoys.com, summing up the efforts
of an entire horde of newbie net
goldrushers. This hysterical
powerplay perfectly demonstrates
the intentions of the new net elite;
to turn the world wide web into
their own private home-shopping
network. For the holidays,
Etoys.com attempts to swat a fly in
their Christmas pudding. But like
other secret powers -- the net holds
within it -- the secret of how
the fly can swat back.

S0 PLAY WITH US!!

IT’S TIME FOR THE FAKE_FLOODS TO BEGIN!!!!

Fakeshop
http://www.fakeshop.com


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"Do you support the global virtual sit-in
against www.eToys on December 15-25, 1999?"

a solidarity page:

http://www.duke.edu/~arg2/solidarity_list.html

where you can add your name
and that of your organization.
Email your support to:

arg2@duke.edu

LIST OF NAMES IN SUPPORT SO FAR:

/organizations

RTMARK
The Electronic Disturbance Theater
Rhizome.org
Fakeshop
The Thing
Mejor Vida Corp.
Ehippies
PrayStation
MTAA
Imperfect Fluids Arts Collective, Chicago and San Francisco
Colchester Arts Centre, Essex, UK
Luther Blissett Project - Bologna, Italy
Luther Blissett Project - Rome, Italy
www.firstfloor.org
core media exp
h2so4
Etravel.com
Immaterial Incorporated, New York
Postmasters Gallery
Potatoland.org
www.thecluephone.com
Orgyorg.org
 www.one38.org
Detritus.net
Just A Hobby
subnet
souprecordsPM, Minneapolis
Global Effort to Eradicate Know-nothings (GEEK Force)


/individuals

Tim Whidden
Max Herman
Giacomo Verde
Catherine Bolton Brown
Jørgen Larsson
D42 Kandinskij
Minerva Cuevas
Germán Olaya
Alex Galloway (Rhizome.org)
SAND777777
Lee Wells (IFAC)
Barbara Strebel
Jennifer McCoy
Kevin McCoy
Laura Perez
Orgyorg
Udo Noll
Diane Ludin
Richard Zach
Brad Weslake
Andri Laurion
Mark Tribe (Rhizome.org)
Francisco Millarch
Sina Najafi
Ken Feingold
Jesse Robetoy
Geert Lovink
Mark Napier
Jerry Lynde
Alberto Gaitan
Christopher Pace
 Ryan Platte
Søren Pold
Johannes Pepelnik
Reinhold Grether
Hein Eberson
Mark Waterton
 Kazimir Malevich
Antye Greie
Gottfried Kerscher
Grugnog
 t@nk3
Jennifer Crowe
Ronald Martin
Eric Benvenue-Jennings
Mouchette
Patrick May, Tumble Interactive
Nicholas Paredes
John Major
Michaela Vlkova
Frank Hesse
Peter Haefner
Jami Rutherford
Steev Hise, Detritus.net
Bryon Heggestad
Boris Kamenik
Aljosa Abrahamsberg
Nathalie Magnan
 Nathan Winkler
Peter Mueller
Andy Merrill
Martin Krung
Brooke Aldridge
Keith Perkins
Oliver Ressler

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In 1995 a group of artists purchased the internet domain
name etoy.com. Two years later, 1997, an online toy store
bought the domain name eToys.com.

This year eToys.com has chosen to sue etoy.com for the
use of the domain name. In an initial hearing, a judge in Los
Angeles has sided with eToys.com and forced etoy.com to
shut down its website, discontinue use of the name
etoy.com, and prohibited the artists from selling their work
in the United States. eToys claims that it has only the
interests of their customers in mind, who might mistype
the store's internet address and end up at the wrong site.
Minors might be exposed to controversial artwork. No-one
is fooled by that. It is clear that what they are really after
is sales, and they will use everything in their legal power
to get etoy to pack up and leave.

Do you want the internet to become one giant shopping mall
where free speech and artistic expression are tolerated
only as long as they don't threaten corporate profits? If not,
then now is the time to make your voice heard. Do not shop
at eToys this Christmas. Write to your friends and to the
media, alerting them of eToys' attempt to suppress internet
art

http://www.eviltoy.com/

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LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

Info on the sit-in available at:

http://www.rtmark.com/sitin.html

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General info available at:

http://www.rtmark.com/etoy
http://www.eviltoy.com
http://www.toywar.com/

 and ETOY still available at:
 http://146.228.204.72:8080/



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