Gatt.org: The Parodieseite warns of the Website the World Trade Organization, which warns for its part of Gatt.org. Both state, they are "genuine"

In order to be able to understand the connections, must be drawn back further. Already for two years a group of international on-line globalization opponents operates a critical Verfremdung of the World Trade Organization side named "The Yes Men" with Gatt.org. Delicate detail thereby for the world trade organization: The Spoof can hardly be recognized as such and resembles by use of the World Trade Organization Logos the original clearly - at least optical. Because contentwise the on-line offer - simplifies expressed - is properly rotated.

Nevertheless only also the supervisors of a congress of lawyer in Austria would have recognized, some mockery would have remained for them saved, those Yes Men against it would be probably hardly in such a manner well-known, how they are it today. Beginning of the yearly had been invited one their activists as alleged World Trade Organization representatives to a congress of lawyer into the alpine republic - and appeared also prompt.

The Salzburger auditory was not astonished badly at the lecture of certain "Dr. Bichlbauers", who dozierte approximately over the putridness of the Italians, who described and over the necessity for a uniform world culture philosophierte advantages of the auction of votes. At the end of the Referats the wrong doctor with "poisoned" cake thrown. Weeks later it "died" even at the consequences of the assassination attempt. The Yes Men Website documents the diagonal events of minutioes.

The Klamauk became possible by a schnoede mistake. The Austrian supervisors had addressed their invitation to the web page Gatt.org, in the acceptance, with the operators concern it the hole successor organization World Trade Organization. As powerfully wrongly the Austrians with this assumption lay, dawned them only after Bichlbauers unforgettable appearance.

The world trade organization found the affair less funny, did first however without a judicial procedure. At the end of November arranged those Geneva now however in appointment to digitally the Millennium copyright act the Hoster of the Site, Verio, in addition, to request the operators for locking. The Site uses urheberrechlich protected indications and contents of, so the argumentation the World Trade Organization.

After Gatt.org Domaininhaber Jonathan Prince appointed itself opposite IO lawyers however to its right to free expression of opinion, these withdrew their ultimatum surprisingly again. The current conditions of the legal argument are not well-known. The Site is at least still on-line.

Automation of the political protest

The threatening bearing the World Trade Organization via Webspace Provider Verio induced the on-line satire Community now however to wappnen itself for a possibly which is approaching locking. The newest Clou from the Yes Men trick box is now however no new Web project, but a free of charge down-loadable software. In less than one week the "yes-Sager" wrote the program "YesIWill", which to the displeasure of economics and politics automatically accurate copies of web pages made can. Contentwise the reflected documents are modifiable thereby after own discretion.

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"for globalization and World Bank opponents it is to become the children's game to create critical Web Parodien of other commercial or political on-line offers", such a Yes Men speaker. "the production of such a side is now only an affair of five minutes."

So far the software is to be used however only with some InterNet know-how. In addition the entrance to a Unix computer and a Perl is 5 or a Apache Webserver of emergencies. But the programmers work already on a less complex version, with which then also petrol Normalsurfer its on-line completely personal protest clones can publish.

The World Trade Organization warns for its part since past month on their own on-line offer before the Gatt.org Eulenspiegelei and verfremdeten contents. "the falsified World Trade Organization Site Gatt.org was provided, around InterNet users to mislead", is called it in a press release on the official Web appearance. "misled surfer risk to abandon the operators their E-Mail addresses and other information." In order to make the confusion complete, the on-line Persifleure themselves inserted a Fake warning on their homepage.