Talk:Conspiracy For Good
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It seems to me that this whole thing is basically some sort of elaborate alternate reality game/story. Came across it while reading the 'legal threats' section of The Pirate Bay, which appears to have been some sort of viral marketing scheme: http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/bwb_mail_resp.txt
I don't know how easily it's going to be to get verified sources on this, if such sources instead decide to participate in the alternate reality... And that brings into question whether Wikipeda can or will participate in that alternate reality, if the only found verified sources are participating. Of course, I'm new to this whole Wikipedia thing as far as being integrated into the community goes (I use it of course and occasionally make corrections on trivial errors), so I don't really know the agreed upon policies for something like this. Nonetheless, since it appears that the nature of this "Conspiracy for Good" project will create a great degree of misunderstanding, I'm sharing my personal conclusions after about 20 minutes of original research (which I understand would have to be verified by proper sources)
-"Blackwell Briggs" is a fictional company within the alternate reality, and serves, as far as I can tell, as the 'antagonist' of the story
-The story is being sponsored IRL by Nokia and is written/directed/guided/gamemastered/whatever by Tim Kring
-"Conspiracy for Good" I believe can be taken as the 'title' of this ARG/interactive story, and as the name of the fictional 'protagonist' organization in the context of the story
-Attempts at viral marketing via The Pirate Bay here http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/bwb_mail_resp.txt linking to a freshly posted torrent, suggesting TPB as possibly complicity participating in the viral marketing. As noted in the comments for that torrent.
And that is about the extent of information which I can provide. I'm not going to attempt to edit or write up an article, because I have no verifiable sources, but if this becomes anything I'm sure they will pop up... But I figure the difficulty will be in finding sources not participating in the actual ARG. I don't know though, really.
I'll be curious to see if, where, and how far this all goes. --HeroofTime55 (talk) 04:45, 10 July 2010 (UTC)