Info wars

Infobox Film
name = info wars


caption = Promotional poster for "info wars"
director = Sebastian J. F.
producer = parallel universe (Sebastian J. F.)
writer = Fate
starring = Jon Johansen Robin Gross Ray Thomas
Ricardo Dominguez
Emmanuel Goldstein
Douglas Rushkoff
etoy.ZAI
Ricardo Dominguez
Hans Bernhard
distributor = parallel universe (world)
Polyfilm (Austria)
released = November 2, 2004
runtime = 90 min.
language = English
imdb_id = 0415067

"info wars" is a film documentary on the Internet generation and online activism. It features the controversies around DeCSS, voteauction, the toywar, and portrays activism from groups like ®™ark, the The Yes Men and the Electronic Disturbance Theater of Ricardo Dominguez. "info wars" was the first film directed by Sebastian J. F.

The film was produced by Parallel Universe in the European Union in 2004.

ynopsis

"info wars" shows the mechanics of modern information warfare and media hacking. The featured stories are intertwined but circle around the central subject of the film: How the modern mass media can be used (and are used) to reach certain ends by all involved parties.

The film is named after the Ars Electronica title of 1998.

See also

* Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
* Content-scrambling system (CSS)
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* Jon Lech Johansen
* IP Justice (IPJ)
* Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

External links

* [http://www.info-wars.com/ info wars]
* [http://www.info-wars.com/en/trailer.html The film trailers]
* [http://www.parallel-universe.com/ parallel universe]
* [http://www.ipjustice.org/ Robin Gross]
* [http://www.rtmark.com/ RTmark]
* [http://toywar.etoy.com/ etoy]
* [http://www.ubermorgen.com/ ubermorgen]
* [http://www.nanocrew.net Jon Lech Johansen]
* [http://www.mpaa.com/ MPAA]
* [http://www.theyesmen.org/ The Yes Men]