RE-CODE update

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The Corporation Wins Again

http://www.re-code.com

we are still doing interviews and still have videos
available
[email protected]

Today was a very difficult day for us at re-code.com.
We have decided to heed the warnings of our lawyer and
have closed up
much
of the shop - but not without a media frenzy.
We have not yet calculated our traffic from today but
at any given time
during business hours there were 300+ people on
re-code.com
This has smashed our record last friday which saw
90,000 hits in one
hour
alone. Today was worse.

7:50 AM EST I did a small spot on a talk radio show in
Illinois. It
went
alright but I didn't get a chance to make any
anti-clear channel
commentary
(the station - like most - was owned by the media
giant Clear Channel).
It
was one of those crazy shock jock twenty something
morning shows.

that was how it started
then we get this email which we later confirmed to be
true

"Bad news. Kellogg's just found out, and are PISSED. I
am serious. You
will
be hearing from their lawyers soon. (Said lawyers
actually watched your
video on my computer, right after the Wal-Mart
business lawyers
contacted
them.)"

then this

"Their head legal guy actually sat at my computer to
watch the video.
Copy-Right infringement is what I overheard. You
mention their product,
show
it being stolen and how, and make derogatory remarks
about it, in the
video."

and later this from the same Kellogg's employee

"FYI: about ten more higher-ups came and wanted to see
the video since
my
last email. They are pissed off…"

This was occurring while I was speaking to a reporter
on the phone that
had
just spoken to Wal Mart reps who claimed to have
arrested "several
youth"
that are in custody now who were using the re-code.com
to steal goods.
The
reporter doubted the claims as did I. But still a bit
scary.

At this point I am getting quite scared - I mean my
group the CDL
(hactivist.com) has not been very clean itself in the
past several
years.

We called our lawyer who on our behalf called the Wal
Mart attorney on
the
cease and desist letter.

Our lawyer said that the woman was laughing and seemed
to generally
"get"
the humor of the site, but she also said she was the
only one who felt
that
way and that the case was not in her hands anymore.
She had also heard
the
rumors of the alleged "youth" that were arrested but
didn't believe it.
She
then started rattling off my name, address,
occupation, etc. She said
to
"let Nathan know we know who he is and where he is." I
still don't know
how
this was all tracked down.

At the same time another friend was receiving strange
and perplexingly
involved and detailed phone calls. Much digging was
being done by
someone on
the side of the big W. Scary tactics were in place.
Hate mail was
rolling
in. The media machine was rolling.

The lawyer for Wal Mart confirmed that Wal Mart was
now working with
Kellogg's as well as a number of other corporations
that she could not
reveal the identity of.

Our lawyer asked if any local, state, or federal legal
officials had
been
commented and she said she was unable to respond to
that.

I began to clean my room at this point - I am still in
the process as
we
speak.

We talked with DOD.net who was running our site and
they didn't think
their
machines running re-code.com (2 boxes each on separate
T1's mirroring
the
site and a separate machine somewhere else running the
video file)
could
hold out much longer. We were clogged most of the day
actually and had
real
difficulty in even updating information.

Articles appeared on the front pages of MSNBC.com, and
WIRED.com as
well as
in print all over the country.
Over 40 papers for sure. Then the TV stations came
calling, Florida,
California, Texas, Illinois, Arkansas, ….

BBC World called and we did an interview with them
about what was
happening.
They said everyone there loved the site.

It got scary very quickly and we were advised by our
lawyer that
"unless our
art is about a legal battle" we should dismantle the
site.
our lawyer is great and we trust him. We had gotten
way more press than
we
were hoping for and Wal Mart was proving themselves to
be exactly what
we
had been claiming all along - a tyrant and a bully.

We gave in. Scare tactics worked. We are scared. I am
26 and I don't
want to
go to jail, pay a fine, or worse - keep alive and
manage a UPC database
for
any extended amount of time.

We have also removed the collective Carbon Defense
League from the web.

I wish we could have been stronger. We are going to
try to continue to
work
on this situation but it was in our best interest to
take down the
service
for now.

I wonder if others might see how simple it is to do
what we did and
replicate it?

We are still doing interviews, it is now after
midnight and I have been
trying to take a bath since 8am - time to get to it.

Please read our new announcement on the front page of
re-code.com.

Help us document the news footage and print press.
Help us use this
story to
create a scandal.

I thank everyone for their interest and support. Now
help us work to
build a
document of the scare tactics of these corporations.

We will be publishing our email correspondences in the
next few days
which
consists of both supportive and abusive commentary.
We will also have up soon PDFs of the places we found
carrying news
articles.

thanks
nathan hactivist

gone fishin'


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