Copies intro

During '99 0100101110101101.ORG is in the limelight for its copy-paste strategy, carrying "fake" over to a digital format for the first time. Over one year they entirely copy and duplicate three websites: Hell.com, Art.Teleportacia.org and Jodi.org. Pure data duplication, no meaning, no theories. Hell.com immediately threatens with an international lawsuit for copyright violation. The international press (The New York Times, Le Monde, Britannica, Haaretz) realizes that, in the friendly world of net.art, there is an organization dedicated to systematic data duplication and identity forgery. This provokes a wave of debate about the "commercialization of web art", authenticity, copyright and the very nature of digital art.

«The belief that information must be free - says Renato, 0100101110101101.ORG spokesman - is a tribute to the way in which a very good computer or a valid program works: binary numbers move in accordance with the most logic, direct and necessary way to do their complex function. What is a computer if not something that benefits by the free flow of information? Copyright is boring»

Years later the three copies are still inside 0100101110101101.ORG's website: they symbolizes a digital monument to the principles upon which the Internet runs.