Re-Code.com

Re-Code.com

Production country: 
us
Edition: 
2004
Format: 
net
software

Re-code.com is a social hack exposing the software structures that dominate our lives and economy, in Conglomco.org's words, they are trying to "showcase the absurdity in a system that allows corporate theft to go unpunished while deeply criminalizing petty consumer theft. Congiomco.org uses the web, scanning equipment, barcodes, databases, and even the mental state of the checkout employees whose job causes them not to notice anomalies in the price of goods. It points out the strengths and weaknesses of all these systems and exploits them as a social commentary. The simple website provides essential resources for communicating their point, and serves as a publishing board and vehicle for generating corporate disdain. Due to a preliminary injunction the project is currently offline.

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