THING.NET EVICTED FROM INTERNET (fwd)

Hola all,

Thanks for the thoughts mr Brett.

It is all too true.

At this moment in time any support would
be incredible - from legal to a donation.

https://secure.thing.net/backbone/

Happy Holidaze to All.

ricardo



—– Original Message —–
From: "Brett Stalbaum" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 5:47 AM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: THING.NET EVICTED FROM INTERNET (fwd)


> If this press release from rtmark is as stated (I have no reason to think
> it is not), then clearly the DMCA is being implemented for political ends
> in a pretty daring way. Taking down an entire ISP (and all unrelated
> accounts) for the actions of just one of its clients is probably a prima
> facie affront to the first amendment all by itself. But when taken in the
> context of the kinds of activist work supported by thing, well, lets just
> say we know who the targets are. It could hardly be more blatant. There
> are a lot of ISPs out there, no doubt, who have had DMCA complaints
> against individual hosting clients. I wonder how many have been uncoupled
> from the backbone?
>
> I'd like to add a few other examples to rtmark's list to make for overkill
> on the previous point.
>
> Ricardo Dominguez
> http://www.thing.net/~rdom/
>
> Coco Fusco
> http://www.thing.net/~cocofusco/
>
> Not to mention any number of anti-war projects hosted on thing. Good
> timing, no?
>
> But the action here of cutting the root to kill the offending leaves also
> takes with it any number of non-activist art projects. Thing hosts a 1998
> work of my own that is in no way in an activist mode.
> (http://www.thing.net/~beestal). To get an overall sense, check out
> bbs.thing.net and check out the variety of art sites they host. Maybe wish
> them a good-bye or some good luck.
>
>
> ———- Forwarded message ———-
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:04:03 -0500
> From: RTMark Press <[email protected]>
> Subject: THING.NET EVICTED FROM INTERNET
>
> December 23, 2002
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> Thing.net assistance page: https://secure.thing.net/backbone/
> Contact: mailto:[email protected]
>
> ACTIVIST NETWORK IN NY EVICTED FROM INTERNET BY DOW, VERIO
>
> Bowing to pressure from the Dow Chemical Corporation, the internet
> company Verio has booted the activist-oriented Thing.net from the Web.
>
> Internet service provider Thing.net has been the primary service
> provider for activist and artist organizations in the New York area
> for 10 years.
>
> On December 3, activists used a server housed by Thing.net to post a
> parody Dow press release on the eighteenth anniversary of the disaster
> in which 20,000 people died as a result of an accident at a Union
> Carbide plant in Bhopal, India. (Union Carbide is now owned by Dow.)
> The deadpan statement, which many people took as real, explained that
> Dow could not accept responsibility for the disaster due to its
> primary allegiance to its shareholders and to its bottom line.
>
> Dow was not amused, and sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
> complaint to Verio, which immediately cut Thing.net off the internet
> for fifteen hours. A few days later, Verio announced that Thing.net
> had 60 days to move to another provider before being shut down
> permanently, unilaterally terminating Thing.net's 7-year-old contract.
>
> Affected organizations include PS1/MOMA, Artforum, Nettime, Tenant.net
> (which assists renters facing eviction), and hundreds more.
>
> "Verio's actions are nothing short of outrageous," said Wolfgang
> Staehle, Thing.net Executive Director. "They could have resolved the
> matter with the Dow parodists directly; instead they chose to shut
> down our entire network. This self-appointed enforcement of the DMCA
> could have a serious chilling effect on free speech, and has already
> damaged our business."
>
>
> RTMark, which publicizes corporate abuses of democracy, is housed on
> Thing.net. Please visit https://secure.thing.net/backbone/ to help
> Thing.net survive Dow's and Verio's actions, and to develop a plan to
> avoid such problems in the future.
>
> # 30 #
>
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>

NY times, Matthew Mirapaul, today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/23/arts/design/23ARTS.html?pagewanted=1&eiP62&enu343cc94de419c0&ex41310800

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, ricardo dominguez wrote:

> Hola all,
>
> Thanks for the thoughts mr Brett.
>
> It is all too true.
>
> At this moment in time any support would
> be incredible - from legal to a donation.
>
> https://secure.thing.net/backbone/
>
> Happy Holidaze to All.
>
> ricardo
>
>
>
> —– Original Message —–
> From: "Brett Stalbaum" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 5:47 AM
> Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: THING.NET EVICTED FROM INTERNET (fwd)
>
>
> > If this press release from rtmark is as stated (I have no reason to think
> > it is not), then clearly the DMCA is being implemented for political ends
> > in a pretty daring way. Taking down an entire ISP (and all unrelated
> > accounts) for the actions of just one of its clients is probably a prima
> > facie affront to the first amendment all by itself. But when taken in the
> > context of the kinds of activist work supported by thing, well, lets just
> > say we know who the targets are. It could hardly be more blatant. There
> > are a lot of ISPs out there, no doubt, who have had DMCA complaints
> > against individual hosting clients. I wonder how many have been uncoupled
> > from the backbone?
> >
> > I'd like to add a few other examples to rtmark's list to make for overkill
> > on the previous point.
> >
> > Ricardo Dominguez
> > http://www.thing.net/~rdom/
> >
> > Coco Fusco
> > http://www.thing.net/~cocofusco/
> >
> > Not to mention any number of anti-war projects hosted on thing. Good
> > timing, no?
> >
> > But the action here of cutting the root to kill the offending leaves also
> > takes with it any number of non-activist art projects. Thing hosts a 1998
> > work of my own that is in no way in an activist mode.
> > (http://www.thing.net/~beestal). To get an overall sense, check out
> > bbs.thing.net and check out the variety of art sites they host. Maybe wish
> > them a good-bye or some good luck.
> >
> >
> > ———- Forwarded message ———-
> > Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 03:04:03 -0500
> > From: RTMark Press <[email protected]>
> > Subject: THING.NET EVICTED FROM INTERNET
> >
> > December 23, 2002
> > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> >
> > Thing.net assistance page: https://secure.thing.net/backbone/
> > Contact: mailto:[email protected]
> >
> > ACTIVIST NETWORK IN NY EVICTED FROM INTERNET BY DOW, VERIO
> >
> > Bowing to pressure from the Dow Chemical Corporation, the internet
> > company Verio has booted the activist-oriented Thing.net from the Web.
> >
> > Internet service provider Thing.net has been the primary service
> > provider for activist and artist organizations in the New York area
> > for 10 years.
> >
> > On December 3, activists used a server housed by Thing.net to post a
> > parody Dow press release on the eighteenth anniversary of the disaster
> > in which 20,000 people died as a result of an accident at a Union
> > Carbide plant in Bhopal, India. (Union Carbide is now owned by Dow.)
> > The deadpan statement, which many people took as real, explained that
> > Dow could not accept responsibility for the disaster due to its
> > primary allegiance to its shareholders and to its bottom line.
> >
> > Dow was not amused, and sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
> > complaint to Verio, which immediately cut Thing.net off the internet
> > for fifteen hours. A few days later, Verio announced that Thing.net
> > had 60 days to move to another provider before being shut down
> > permanently, unilaterally terminating Thing.net's 7-year-old contract.
> >
> > Affected organizations include PS1/MOMA, Artforum, Nettime, Tenant.net
> > (which assists renters facing eviction), and hundreds more.
> >
> > "Verio's actions are nothing short of outrageous," said Wolfgang
> > Staehle, Thing.net Executive Director. "They could have resolved the
> > matter with the Dow parodists directly; instead they chose to shut
> > down our entire network. This self-appointed enforcement of the DMCA
> > could have a serious chilling effect on free speech, and has already
> > damaged our business."
> >
> >
> > RTMark, which publicizes corporate abuses of democracy, is housed on
> > Thing.net. Please visit https://secure.thing.net/backbone/ to help
> > Thing.net survive Dow's and Verio's actions, and to develop a plan to
> > avoid such problems in the future.
> >
> > # 30 #
> >
> > + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> > -> post: [email protected]
> > -> questions: [email protected]
> > -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> > +
> > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> > Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
> >
> >
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: [email protected]
> -> questions: [email protected]
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>