Pastiche, plagiat, détournement, faux, imitation, imposture, caricature, parodie, copie: reprise des formats de l'original
Les Yes Men [1] ont encore fait parler d'eux en juin 2007 : ils se sont faits passer pour des représentants de l'industrie pétrolière et sont intervenus dans une conférence internationale pour exposer une solution extrême au réchauffement climatique. Mais ils ont été démasqués avant la fin de leur intervention et ont été expulsés [2].
Le principe adopté par les Yes Men est d'utiliser les codes vestimentaires, les usages des groupes, les règles de comportement et d'autres éléments qui sont caractéristiques d'un domaine ou de personnes, pour sembler crédibles. Cette approche est aussi celle des imitateurs politiques ou autres, des caricaturistes, des humoristes (voire des escrocs et des faussaires), en modifiant plus ou moins les choses.
Dans le monde non-numérique, du social à l'artistique, le principe de l'imitation (et aussi du pastiche, du plagiat, du détournement, du faux, de l'imposture, de la caricature, de la copie ou de la parodie) consiste à reprendre les caractéristiques propres et à les modifier plus ou moins : ces caractéristiques peuvent être considérées comme définissant un format. Et quand ces informations sont connues, le format est ouvert, utilisable ou modifiable.
Quant au monde numérique, la copie à l'identique du format est intrinsèque, format ouvert ou fermé.
Sources et liens :
- [1] Yes Men, site en anglais, http://theyesmen.org/
- Article Yes Men, encyclopédie Wikipédia, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Men
- [2] Article Des cadavres humains transformés en dérivé pétrolier, nouvelle imposture des Yes Men au Canada, de Alexandre Piquard, le 16 juin 2007, http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3244,36-924173,0.html
Et sur Formats-Ouverts.org :
- il y a 1 an : Les 2 ans de la loi du 21 juin 2004, et donc 2 ans de définition des standards ouverts ! (L'article 4 de la LCEN a 2 ans)
- il y a 2 ans : Un an après la loi, comment définir un standard ouvert ? (Définir les formats ouverts et les protocoles ouverts)
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1 De 2lbt - 06/07/2007, 16:09
suite à une censure de leur site imposée par exxon, les yes men cherchent un serveur et un sys-admin debian
voici une copie de leur news-letter à ce sujet (pardonnez moi la longueur de la citation)
"June 28, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EXXON HACKS THE YES MEN
Yes Men badly need sysadmin, server co-location
Contact: mailto:people@theyesmen.org
One day after the Yes Men made a joke announcement that ExxonMobil
plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new
fuel called Vivoleum, the Yes Men's upstream internet service
provider shut down Vivoleum.com, the Yes Men's spoof website, and cut
off the Yes Men's email service, in reaction to a complaint whose
source they will not identify. The provider, Broadview Networks, also
made the Yes Men remove all mention of Exxon from TheYesMen.org
before they'd restore the Yes Men's email service.
The Yes Men assume the complainant was Exxon. "Since parody is
protected under US law, Exxon must think that people seeing the site
will think Vivoleum's a real Exxon product, not just a parody," said
Yes Man Mike Bonanno. "Exxon's policies do already contribute to
150,000 climate-change related deaths each year," added Yes Man Andy
Bichlbaum. "So maybe it really is credible. What a resource!"
After receiving the complaint June 15, Broadview added a "filter"
that disabled the Vivoleum.com IP address (64.115.210.59), and
furthermore prevented email from being sent from the Yes Men's
primary IP address (64.115.210.58). Even after all Exxon logos were
removed from both sites and a disclaimer was placed on Vivoleum.com
on Tuesday, Broadview would still not remove the filter. (The
disclaimer read: "Although Vivoleum is not a real ExxonMobil program,
it might as well be.")
Broadview did restore both IPs on Wednesday, after the Vivoleum.com
website was completely disabled and all mention of Exxon was removed
from TheYesMen.org.
While this problem is temporarily resolved, the story is far from
over. Meanwhile, though, two bigger problems loom, for which we're
asking your help:
1. THE YES MEN'S SERVER NEEDS A NEW HOME.
Broadview Networks provides internet connectivity to New York's
Thing.net and the websites and servers it hosts, including the Yes
Men's server. Thing.net has been a host for many years to numerous
activist and artist websites and servers.
At the end of July, Thing.net will terminate its contract with
Broadview and move its operations to Germany, where internet
expression currently benefits from a friendlier legal climate than in
the US, and where baseless threats by large corporations presumably
have less weight with providers. At that time, the Yes Men and two
other organizations with servers "co-located" at Thing.net will need
a new home for those servers. Please write to us if you can offer
such help or know of someone who can.
2. THE YES MEN NEED A SYSADMIN.
The Yes Men are desperately in need of a sysadmin. The position is
unpaid at the moment, but it shouldn't take much time for someone who
knows Debian Linux very well. It involves monitoring the server,
keeping it up-to-date, making sure email is working correctly, etc.
The person could also maintain the Yes Men's website (which will be
updated next week), if she or he wants.
Thing.net also needs a sysadmin: someone living in New York who knows
Linux well. The Thing.net position involves some money and the
rewards of working for an organization that has consistently and at
great personal risk supported groups like the Yes Men over the years.
THE YES MEN AND THING.NET THANK YOU!"