Is there really all that much difference, on a technical level, between 0100101110101101.ORG, Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol? Putting aside any qualitative judgments, on one level or another they are all just appropriators of images. They are all combining elements of other people's works in order to create new ones, in effect challenging the old model of authorship that presupposes that the building blocks of creativity should spill forth directly from the mind of the artist. While everyone (particularly the companies touting the technologies that make all this possible) predicted a flood of original images and websites spewing forth from the desktops of bedroom auteurs, no one anticipated that large numbers of people would be more interested in using their computers to combine, mash together, or remix other people's work. Sharing one's unauthorized creations via the Net is even easier. It's a dramatic change from just a few years ago, when an artist's sole option would have been to exhibit his works inside small underground events. Such Hybrids are also, technically, illegal, but from the perspective of Net.artists and cultural jammers at the forefront of the explosion of Net.art, copyright laws don't look like anything other than the means by which one group of artists limits the work of another. Illegality can actually be a large part of the allure of Hybrids. Using other people's art without permission used to be the point of historical avantgarde's collages. Back in the ‘10s and early ‘20s, when Dada and Surrealists collagists like Annah Hoch and John Heartfield released their first works, collages had a decidedly subversive edge to them. Collages were typically created as statements about pop culture and the media juggernaut that surrounds us. Traces of that element remain in the Hybrids being made today. Eventually recombining and remixing is likely to become so prevalent that it will be all but impossible to even identify the original source of samples, making questions about authorship and origins largely irrelevant, or at least unanswerable. We're already seeing the beginnings of that, like the Hybrid that samples another