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The first issue of Furball with the title 'On Wikileaks, Bitcoin, Copyleft - Three Critiques of Hacktivism'. Furball is the imprint under which we plan to publish pamphlets now and then in the future. While most expressions of hacktivism lack this revolutionary vigour expressed in one of the later communiques by now infamous hacking collective antiSec, hacktivism is widely appreciated for its radical potential. Wikileaks and hacking crews are considered by some as anarchist special forces striking blows against the forces of domination. Bitcoin is regarded as a practical approach to break the power of capital. Free software is thought of as a model for future production beyond capitalism. We disagree. http://antinational.org/sites/default/files/furball-00.pdf