[im] DailyPaywall.com is Back to Celebrate 15 yrs of Hacking for Socio-Critical Art

[Paolo Cirio]

Press Release. 15th Jan. 2016, London - NYC.

To celebrate 15 years of socio-critical Internet art practice, Paolo 
Cirio re-launches DailyPaywall.com with over 60,000 articles from the 
Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Economist available 
to all for free!
Watch the introductory video:
<https://youtube.com/watch?v=GodT9TTFswU>https://youtube.com/watch?v=GodT9TTFswU
This conceptual artwork critiques today's information economy by 
reconfiguring and embodying the dynamics of the conflict over the 
control of information's ownership, labor and sharing.

DailyPaywall.com was online for a few days exactly a year ago until a 
legal threat from Pearson PLC took it down for copyright 
infringement. The major publishing firm mentioned the violation of 
five laws in its C&D letter:
<https://PaoloCirio.net/work/daily-paywall/DailyPaywall.com-PearsonPLC-vs-Cirio.pdf>https://PaoloCirio.net/work/daily-paywall/DailyPaywall.com-PearsonPLC-vs-Cirio.pdf
Meanwhile, Pearson sold the Financial Times and the Economist a few 
months after this letter.

Now, DailyPaywall.com is back on a safe new server, challenging 
unfair copyright laws once again by claiming fair use of over 60,000 
news articles that should belong to the public. The pirated content 
from all 2014 won't be indexed by search engines, yet, as in any 
public library, it'll be available to students, researchers, 
journalists, cultural producers, and anyone who can't afford the 
subscription fees imposed by those giant publishers, thereby 
overcoming economic and linguistic barriers to crucial information.

Daily Paywall was created as a media performance scripted and staged 
to involve a wide audience into a commentary on today's information 
and sharing economy. The paid-to-read model is a creative economic 
model that engages with alternatives of social systems that needs to 
be reimagined. At this time, the crowdfunding and payments system 
won't be enabled due to a lack of resources that limits the restaging 
of the online performance. More on Daily Paywall media performance:
<https://PaoloCirio.net/work/daily-paywall>https://PaoloCirio.net/work/daily-paywall

* In 15 years of activity in art activism and hacking, Paolo Cirio 
has always aimed to create meaningful art and address critical social 
issues.

* 2015 just ended with a major show at the Museum Academy of Art of 
China in Hangzhou with a huge installation of The Hacking Monopolism 
Trilogy composed of the artworks of Amazon Noir, Facebook to Facebook 
and Google Will Eat Itself. In honor of these media performances and 
sophisticated hacks, China offered a great opportunity to discuss the 
complexities underpinning the concentration of economic and 
informational power by global Internet monopolies.
<https://PaoloCirio.net/work/hacking-monopolism-trilogy>https://PaoloCirio.net/work/hacking-monopolism-trilogy
<http://Face-To-Facebook.net>http://Face-To-Facebook.net - 
<http://Amazon-Noir.net>http://Amazon-Noir.net - 
<http://GoogleWillEatItself.com>http://GoogleWillEatItself.com

Paolo Cirio Press.
<https://PaoloCirio.net>https://PaoloCirio.net

* DailyPaywall.com is kindly hosted by 
<http://GreenHost.nl>http://GreenHost.nl which is an ISP supportive 
of freedom of expression and an egalitarian internet.