13 February 1998, a Friday :-(


They never censor smutsites
they never censor commercial warez sites
they never censor Bill for nuking his concurrence
they never censor people exploiting other people's bodies
or the gullible religious ones
or the kids, bombarded with useless frills
that will make slaves out of them
they never censor people exploiting other people's future
they don't censor anybody
making money 
they respect money
oh yes
they love money
they understand money very well
they love censorship too
so they censor people that think
and, especially, 
they censor those that help others to think
the dangerous ones, the ones giving knowledge away for free
they censor thinking, they censor alternatives
to their own dull and gray world
they censored my good friend Greythorne's site
a site with no warez whatsoever
but with a lot of knowledge for free
with a lot of work behind, unpaid, ready 
for anybody to take
they censor people that give away for free 
their own work
a blasphemy for them
giving knowledge for free
that they don't even understand
giving knowledge for free
they have already lost, poor little censors,
our web is undermining their whole life
their commercial stupidity is their own doom
all things they believe in are disappearing
our world is taking place
virtually yet inexorably
giving knowledge for free
sweeping the censor of the hideous past away




Black Friday's attack

It happened actually on Thursday 12 1998, between 
13:00 and 19:00 European Union time.

An American puritan censorship organization has attacked Sharp's 
server, hosting such fine pages like greythorne's, Stone's, 
Jammer's and a copy of mine own, compelling -probably- the local smut 
owners to throw our friend Sharp out, so that instead of knowledge 
for free the same server can now offer only "allowed" smut for money, 
which is perfectly ok, following the dire rules of the censors' 
weltanschauung.

And see, exactly THAT is the point.

They don't care, contrarily to what they profess, 
nor disturb in any way those people that have gone commercial and are 
doing bucks with pirated software, when they say that they want to 
protect copyrights that's only a 'legal' and 'nice' masquerade used 
in order to take the public on a boat ride, especially on a web where 
Netscape itself is now releasing for free all his code as a last 
desperate move against the Micro$oft's bane... which reversed Netscape 
black and blue in order to speed Mosaic up to Msie... where were the 
censors at that time?

No! what these lackeys patrol, fear, loath and attack are sites giving 
away knowledge for free. 
That's the only thing they really hate, because censors and knowledge are 
mortal enemies, as they always have been, as they always will be.



What I will do

I will punish the censors stalking them and answering with various means 
on more levels, of course, but the best answer will come from you all: just 
work. Let's tackle the more and more complicate and difficult protection schemes 
that are (finally) starting to appear: let's reverse anything in sight, day after 
day, with our quiet and MIGHTY approach... as +ORC would say: let's work well.
We are not doing anything illegal, in fact, we are teaching how to reverse 
engineer software AND software protection schemes. So what? I'll do this as long 
as I like, until I'll see a law (a LAW, not a wishful rhetorical statement by 
some bogus American organisation) that impose to the European Union's citiziens 
not to do it. And if that should ever happen, I'll fight AGAINST that law and 
try to modify it.
And if that fail I'll find another way to spread our knowledge. 
You won't have me.
Never.

fravia+ 13 February 1998