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I've been a student of one of the authors (Alessandro Ludovico) in 2008, at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara (Italy).
This is actually a pretty genius idea, but as pointed out by others this site looks old (evident by the design and inaccurate stock price). I also think the way Google shares work is that you can never truly own a meaningful share of Google via public shares.
It is really old, I think the first time that I saw it was in mid 2001
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which is incredible easy to do and very hard to prosecute... so guess what is the life blood of the industry
If it is so easy why there aren't still millions of people doing it? Why there are still robbers on the streets?
I dont have a spam website to push, but I know people who were making anywhere from 1-3k a month based on exploiting different advertising rings looking for traffic. Usually they would setup a campaign with an advertiser and wash dirty traffic that they were buying through the advertiser's site, paying 1/10-1/20th of the cost of each conversion or click, and most of the time those would just be botnet operations anyway, they didn't care.
It usually doesnt last long per identity, but those are a dime a dozen.
This is actually a pretty genius idea, but as pointed out by others this site looks old (evident by the design and inaccurate stock price). I also think the way Google shares work is that you can never truly own a meaningful share of Google via public shares.
The company, using company revenues, to buy the company.
Although now I understand them, when I first heard of them I immediately thought it would lead to a stack overflow...
I thought the share class structuring of Google was such that you can never own Google by buying its publicly traded shares?
I thought the share class structuring of Google was such that you can never own Google by buying its publicly traded shares?
You're right.. Class A is traded publicly. Class B is what's owned by Sergey and Brin, and it has 10 votes per share (vs 1 vote per share for Class A), and allows them to outvote all Class A shares.
The point many of you are probably missing here is that this is not a proof of concept but a work of net/digital art, exhibited many times in the past (even at transmediale 2008) but fixed in a defined moment in time (~2006). I've been a student of one of the authors (Alessandro Ludovico) in 2008, at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara (Italy).