Pirates Of The Amazon Add-On, 2008

Press statement: "Pirates of the Amazon" was an artistic parody, part of our media research and education at the Media Design M.A. course at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. PotA basically allowed you to use Amazon.com as interface for downloading Torrent files.

It was a practical experiment on interface design, information access and currently debated issues in media culture. We were surprised by the attentions and the strong reactions this project received. Ultimately, the value of the project lies in these reactions. It is a ready-made and social sculpture of contemporary internet user culture.

One day after publishing we received a take down request by the legal department of Amazon.com. This work was made as a trimester assignment in our study course, under the supervision of our tutor Denis Jaromil Rojo and our course director Florian Cramer.

In the Media:

A comment on Slashdot
Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht of Diggnation discussing PotA
Screenshot of the original website
Screenshot of hacked Amazon search result

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