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«Over the last year, 0100101110101101.ORG have made it their business to clone existing artists, and upload these copies onto their own domain. Each act of cloning is accompanied by a flurry of email and message-board postings that self-publicize their latest theft in an impressive bid for some sort of notoriety» Jon Thomson, Eyestorm
«Anyone can spin this any way they want, but in the final analysis, it is just simple theft. It's a publicity stunt to create awareness for a bunch of people who have no apparent talents» Kenneth Aronson, founder of HELL.com, The New York Times
«The cloning of Hell.com raised a vivid debate on copyright, on the difficult commercialisation of artworks made on the Web and on the concept of 'original', nowadays obsolete thanks to the potentialities of manipulation and reworking of data offered by informatics» Daniele Perra, il Sole24ore
«According to them, they try to show that on the web, like in the real world, there is no genius to which the muse gives inspiration. There is only a gigantic continuous change of information and influences. "Knowledge," they say, is nothing but an artistic theft» Uri Pasovsky, Haaretz
«0100101110101101.ORG connected like everybody else could do, and downloaded whole sites, to demonstrate how piracy is congenital to cyberspace and for that can't be considered a crime, on the contrary, it is a normal action that belongs to a world with different rules from those of the material one» Nico Piro, Internet News
«I refuse to admit they have any intellectual property. They are just slightly modifying the intellectual property that we all share. In fact, they're threatening to steal it and package it as their own» Dmytri Kleiner, referring to the creators of Hell.com, The New York Times
«0100101110101101.ORG calls into question the value of "original" in digital media - and raises questions about the entire idea of copyright» John Markoff, Ars Electronica
«Since 0100101110101101.ORG came into being many have tried to grasp its real intentions but very few have been able to understand them» Marco Deseriis, Acoustic Space
«No hacktivist is questioning the right that artists have to be rewarded for their work, as well as getting rich (assuming that's actually possible), but the right that we all have to freely access any work in the Web» Laura Baigorri, Transmisor
«After being hacked by the collective 0100101110101101.ORG, Hell changed its name into No-such.com, but the principles remain the same and it's still impossible to enter the site without the password» R. Bosco e S. Caldana, El Pais
«Who cares about copying? If you don't want something stolen, don't put it on the Net» Auriea Harvey, The New York Times
«Perhaps getting hacked onto their site will become a form of honour among digital artists, maybe even raising the price of their original works» Richard Rinehart, The New York Times
«HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG site: in the face of a somewhat interesting act of art sabotage, proceeded to do absolutely nothing interesting with it» D.F.P., Rhizome
«They use the Internet as a Trojan Horse inside the official art system, as well as the "media" one, revealing their functioning mechanisms» Gianni Romano, Lapiz
«This new generation of artists wants to demystify the legend of plagiarism seen as a theft of language, ideas and images made by whom has no talent» Salvador Diánez Pérez, Ceade University |
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