PVM

@pvm1996

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Pungas de Villa Martelli (PVM) was born in the summer of 1996 in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, La Matanza, as a product of two haggard students of electronics that were only 15 years old at the time. The group's name received influence from the TV news that described a crime rate increase in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, as a result of the neoliberal government policy at that time. Technologic marginality and illegitimate appropriation are reflected in the words chosen and also in its activities during its first months of existence: to dig through the trash of the office buildings in Buenos Aires' downtown looking for system's information (trashing) and producing trash releases to gain download ratio in the elite BBS's of Argentina. Very soon the group began to take shape as new members at the time (now mythical) joined : Sludge, Runa, Daemon, Acid, etc. With this the group focused on producing BBS software, to attend local 2600 meetings, calling abroad through blueboxing and taking pa