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## Injunction Generator (2001)

by UBERMORGEN.COM

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is there any web-site you wanna take off the web using a highly subversive method?

on our server, you auto-generate an "INJUNCTION" [.pdf/.rtf format], a standard court-order, claiming the target-website to operate on an illegal basis. this document will then be sent to the appropriate dns-registrar [dns=domain name service], to the owner of the web-site and possibly to some journalists and lawyers for legal and public processing. all you have to do is to simply fill out a form and send it off, it will take you not more than 15 minutes. if the web-site is taken down we will inform you via email.

this very useful platform [ipnic] grew out of our project [V]ote-auction. during the [V]ote-auction operation in fall 2000, an american court [circuit court of cook county, chicago] issued a temporary injunction against the "individuals" [ubermorgen, james baumgartner, and others] behind [V]ote-auction. this injunction was then sent ...

Tags: Animation censorship Conceptual corporate design digital futurism globalization Hans Bernhard HTML Internet Kingdom of Piracy Taiwan lizvlx machine media activism netart network Perl resistance software surveillance tactical tactical media Text UBERMORGEN.COM underground Visual Voteauction

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is there any web-site you wanna take off the web using a highly subversive method?

on our server, you auto-generate an "INJUNCTION" [.pdf/.rtf format], a standard court-order, claiming the target-website to operate on an illegal basis. this document will then be sent to the appropriate dns-registrar [dns=domain name service], to the owner of the web-site and possibly to some journalists and lawyers for legal and public processing. all you have to do is to simply fill out a form and send it off, it will take you not more than 15 minutes. if the web-site is taken down we will inform you via email.

this very useful platform [ipnic] grew out of our project [V]ote-auction. during the [V]ote-auction operation in fall 2000, an american court [circuit court of cook county, chicago] issued a temporary injunction against the "individuals" [ubermorgen, james baumgartner, and others] behind [V]ote-auction. this injunction was then sent out per email to corenic, the dns-registrar in geneva/switzerland. after receiving this email, corenic decided to shut down all dns-services on the domain vote-auction.com without notice. the jurisdiction of an american court order does obviously not include switzerland, the delivery of a court-order cannot be official via email, nevertheless we were offline. but, thanks to this creative action and reaction, we were inspired to build a public shutdown-service.

you can find some documentation of our [V]ote-auction "MEDIA HACK" at www.vote-auction.net or check out the google database.

THE INJUNCTION GENERATOR - a service brought to you by UBERMORGEN.COM via IPNIC.org. member of KOP, presented at READ_ME 2.3., Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica 2003

###### Work metadata

- Year Created: 2001
- Submitted to ArtBase: Wednesday Mar 30th, 2005
- Original Url: http://www.ipnic.org/
- Permalink: http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/31994/ipnic.org/
- Work Credits:
  - Hans Bernhard, creator

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