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The Pirates of the Amazon Firefox extension, launched this week, provides a link to free downloads (at The Pirate Bay) of content that's available for sale on Amazon.com.

Another download, The Kraken, does, well, the opposite.

"When the [Pirates of the Amazon] add-on is installed, it integrates a new 'download 4 free' button into the Amazon product page when the same article is also available via The Pirate Bay," explains Ernesto at TorrentFreak. "It works for CDs, DVDs, games, books and basically all products that can be converted to a digital format."

But soon after the Pirates of the Amazon site was launched, it went down. "It's apparently hit some choppy waters," writes TechFlash's Eric Engleman. "The 'Pirates of the Amazon' site is down this morning, with the message: 'The ship was hit. We're offline.'"

According to the creators, the site received an immediate legal challenge from Amazon. "'Pirates of the Amazon' was an artistic parody, part of our media research and education at the Media Design M.A. course at the Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, the Netherlands," the site now states. "It was a practical experiment on interface design, information access and currently debated issues in media culture."

At the same time, The Kraken, launched today, inserts Amazon.com purchase links into The Pirate Bay and Mininova. As the download site suggests, "For those with an attack of conscience (or simply impatience), here's a plug-in to help you sleep at night..."

More here from The Register ... more here from PC World ... more here from CNET ... and more here from Wired.

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peut on esperer une ligne vers les Pays bas dans un futur pas trop lointain ?( Rotterdam ou Amsterdam) . la région draine beaucoup de ressortissants Hollandais ;

In 2009 the Hofpleinlijn, from the Hague to Rotterdam, will stop running. After that a 1,9 km long building called The Hofbogen and covering the elevated railroad, will hopefully get a park on top: The Hofpleinparklijn*. In New York soon opens such a park on an elevated railroadtrack: the High Line. Here vegetation took over the tracks when the last train passed in 1980. Instead of getting rid of the green and the structure, the plan is to adjust it into a park by creating a variated green space in order to create a slow environment that permits meandering pace. The High Line as its own calm world. The green will float over streets and cut through city blocks. The picture is an impresson from the Gansevoort Entry. Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro High Line elevated park (design 2005, ready 2009) High Line elevated rail (1930 - 1980) New York, USA http://www.thehighline.org http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofpleinlijn *) that one is my favourite, other: Hofparklijn, or Hofpleinlijnpark, Hofboogpark, etc.  » <a href='1'>original news</a>

The Follydock competition brought to life this container origami. The folly architecture competition, held in 2007 was organised by Lowieke Duran a.o. in Rotterdam. The design passed all stages of the competition and was eventualy build at Heijplaat, in the harbour area of Rotterdam. It's made from two, in origamy style folded, 40ft cargo containers. Even the scale model, contained reused materails. It was made of discarded heating radiators. Construction and welding of the 10 meter tall folly was done by master-welder Vincent Petit. In October of this year (2008) it was re-opened. Wouter Roeterink, Ron Nout, Femke Bijlsma and Allard Roeterink Container Origami (2007 - reopened: 2008) Two 40ft containers Eemhavenweg, Heijplaat/Charlois, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Sources: http://www.randomyou.com/follydock/follydock.html (picture) http://www.echo.nl/ro-ch/buurt/lees/811224/onthulling.container.origami/ http://www.follydock.com  » <a href='1'>original news</a>

Artzilla.org is a new website about fun, artistic, and experimental Mozilla (mostly Firefox) add-ons. Participating artists include Theo Watson, Aram Bartholl, Evan Roth, Dragan Espenschied, Timo Klok, Jamie Wilkinson, Danja Vasiliev and Tobi Leingruber. I bet Pirates of the Amazon will be there, too, a Firefox add-on that "inserts a "download 4 free" button on Amazon, which links to corresponding Piratebay BitTorrents." Read more about the event on the fffffatlab site.

Artzilla.org Launch Party and Browser Hacks Exhibition
Saturday, December 13
Worm, Achterhaven 148, Rotterdam

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