We-make-money-not-art reports on an ethical virus:
The artistic group from Madrid “mmmm…” has fashioned the virus “Amazonas”, that “eats” pixels on the screens of infected online computers at the same rate as the Amazon rainforests are destroyed, using an iterative fractal formula. The formulaÌs numeric parameters are updated via the Internet using data from a server that calculates the rate of deforestation by analyzing images of the Amazon captured by the Landsat 7 satellite every 16 days.
The virus, spread via e-mail, is available only on a video format, since the production and diffusion of a computer virus is illegal.
I THINK that means it’s like a viral campaign that people send to each other. That’s fine obviously. I just hope it doesn’t mean the start of passionate people who know better than us infecting PC’s for their good causes.
Don’t misunderstand, the world would be a much worse place without people feeling strngly about things and taking action. But there’s a line – like terrorising doctors who undertake legal pregnancy terminations. Infecting PC’s trikes me as crossing that line.
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