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Today I clicked in this link in TeX StackExchange http://ctan.org/pkg/svg and I got this message (screenshot below).

In particular, what does it mean that "Latex Productions International has acquired the world wide exclusive rights from D.F.Knuth" !?

Obviously ctan.org changed hands or something, what happened to ctan.org? what would be a good link to use for TeX packages?

ctan

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Just weird, I got the same popup. I think that page has been hacked. – A Feldman 4 hours ago
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Just check the date:) – Yiannis Lazarides 4 hours ago
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Did you note the name, "Donald F Knuth"? – Masroor 4 hours ago
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The character means "insanity". So there's a bit of clue to the joke. Nice job, whoever wrote this up! – A.Ellett 4 hours ago
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It seems barbara had a hand in writing some, but not all, of the sentences. Either that, or some parts of the message are "official statements" and others are not. :-) – Paul Gessler 3 hours ago
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It's currently Friday, April 1 in Europe. Happy April Fools' Day!

(Just in case you didn't know, April 1st is a traditional day for people to play pranks on each other.)

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Also note that all links from the popup lead to unregistered domains. :-) – Martin Schröder 3 hours ago

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