> Art Books with stolen YouTube comments up for sale on Amazon Kindle. > KINDLE'VOKE GHOST WRITERS Press Release. > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > Vienna, 9 June 2012. > > KINDLE'VOKE GHOST WRITERS. > > A project by TRAUMAWIEN and Bernhard Bauch. 2011-2012. > > > Our bots are compiling and uploading hundreds of ebooks on Amazon.com with > text stolen from the comments on YouTube videos. > > http://www.amazon.com/Sparta-my-have-ebook/dp/B007MLJZSS/ > http://www.amazon.com/Wierd-song-you-cute-ebook/dp/B007MMCYIU/ > http://www.amazon.com/Alot-was-been-hard-ebook/dp/B007MMF2CU/ > > We programmed the bots to be completely autonomous. They are working > uninterrupted through dislocated, anonymized accounts. We are not even able > to track the exact amount of generated books infiltrating the Amazon Kindle > library. The results are self-published, human-readable ebooks in form of > classical dramas ready to be sold and enjoyed by a multitude of global > readers, defining a new generative genre of digital literature: the 'slang of > Youtube' - a digital Esperanto that emerged out of millions of users > worldwide. > > The Internet slang of YouTube comments is treated as fresh dialogue, and sold > through Amazon.com in the form of massive, self-generated e-books. In an > auto-cannibalistic model, user generated content is sold back to the users > themselves, parasitically exploiting both corporations: YouTube and Amazon. > > The KINDLE'VOKE GHOST WRITERS project's aim is to address and identify > pertinent questions concerning the digital publishing industry's business > models, as well as to draw the lines of new trends for a possible new kind of > digital literature, after the web. > > The project wants to raise questions like: who do YouTube videos/comments > belong to? Where does authorship start and end? To what extent does the > e-book format have to be reconsidered with regard to the traditional book > form, and what are its most innovative opportunities? How could we act and > work on it? > > Furthermore, this project explores the idea of exploitation of labor on web > platforms to create or comment on attractive content. So-called "user > generated content" is a product created and consumed in the exchange of free > labor managed with surplus information overflow. Giant Internet corporations > exploit people's ingenuity by trading contextual advertising. Users are the > workers of a communication-junk factory, whose bytes are consumed by the > producers themselves. By manipulating this exploitation, our system will give > fair fame to the authors of those texts that clearly deserve a fair piece of > the pie of this nonsense economy. > > The project will presented in Vienna, on June 26, 2012. > At Kandinsky Lerchenfelderstrasse 13 1070 Vienna 20h. > A discussion will follow. > > http://goo.gl/maps/Xgyu > > Thanks for the attention. > TRAUMAWIEN, Luc Gross > > http://traumawien.at/ghostwriters > http://facebook.com/traumawien > http://twitter.com/traumawien _______________________________________________ bagasch mailing list bagasch@lists.monochrom.at http://monochrom.at/mailman/listinfo/bagasch
[monochrom] Art Books with stolen YouTube comments up for sale on Amazon Kindle
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