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Get creative, remix culture

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

As posted on the Creative Commons weblog:

The source materials for both “Get Creative” and “Remix Culture” are now available. Download the .fla file for either and you can get creative and remix “Get Creative” or “Remix Culture” with ease.

Quicktime versions of both movies are also now available. Now it’s easier than ever to download, display and share “Get Creative” and “Remix Culture” (right-click on links to download and save).

Thanks to Ibiblio for hosting all of these files. The Quicktime movies are also available at the Internet Archive here and here. The Internet Archive will also host your Creative Commons-licensed movies and music free of charge. Get started.

MAGNET and Bitzi links:

Creative_Commons_-_Get_Creative.fla (46.1MB)
Creative_Commons_-_Get_Creative.mov (6.9MB)
Creative_Commons_-_Get_Creative.swf (5.5MB)
Creative_Commons_-_Remix_Culture.fla (94.9MB)
Creative_Commons_-_Remix_Culture.mov (6.8MB)
Creative_Commons_-_Remix_Culture.swf (6.8MB)

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Voluntary Collective Licensing

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

The EFF has released a white paper outlining a proposed solution to the file sharing wars. It may strike one as compulsory licensing lite, but that perhaps is unfair, as everything is voluntary in the proposal. Still, the system would have to deal with versions of the problems with compulsory licensing (not an exhaustive list).

The one thing that really irritates me about this proposal (and it irritates me every time I hear it, which is often: example) is the mantra that “artists and copyright holders deserve to be fairly compensated.” Yeah, whatever. For some highly variable and contentious definition of “fair”.

Derek Slater provides links here.

Discussion at InfoAnarchy.

Posted in Economics, Intellectual Protectionism, P2P, Peeves | 3 Comments »

Not Hosting The Grey Album

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

Have LimeWire, BearShare, Shareaza, Kazaa or other MAGNET-enabled software? You might click on a MAGNET icon below. Or click on the filename for more information via Bitzi.

Why would you want to use a MAGNET-enabled program rather than using your browser to download from a web site?

  • The site might use stupid filenames, e.g., 01PublicServiceAnnouncement.mp3. A MAGNET link can specify a better name.
  • The site may have been compromised. A MAGNET link can specify a secure identifier for a file which can be used by an application to verify that the file you have is the one you expected.
  • The site may be down. Some MAGNET-enabled programs can look for the exact file elsewhere.
  • The site may be slow. By virtue of the previous feature, some MAGNET-enabled programs may be able to download from multiple sources.
  • You might already have the exact file. Many MAGNET-enabled programs can tell you this. Why bother to download again?
  • You might want to share the file with others. Some MAGNET-enabled programs will help you do this.
  • You might want to annotate or otherwise organize the file into your collection. Many MAGNET-enabled programs have such features built-in, and do a reasonable job of automatically categorizing new files.
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 01 – Public Service Announcement.mp3 (4.0MB)
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 02 – What More Can I Say.mp3 (6.3MB)
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 03 – Encore.mp3 (3.9MB)
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 04 – December 4th.mp3 (5.2MB)
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 05 – 99 Problems.mp3 (5.9MB)
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 06 – Dirt Off Your Shoulder.mp3 (5.7MB)
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 07 – Moment of Clarity.mp3 (5.7MB)
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 08 – Change Clothes.mp3 (5.8MB)
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 09 – Allure.mp3 (5.9MB)
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 10 – Justify My Thug.mp3 (6.0MB)
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 11 – Interlude.mp3 (3.0MB)
Jay Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album – 12 – My 1st Song.mp3 (7.8MB)

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Bitzi Bitcollider 0.6.0 with kzhash, video metadata, tiger tree fix, minimal OS X support

Monday, February 9th, 2004

As reported by Gordon Mohr at Bitzi and InfoAnarchy. I’ll add another thanks to Delirium for the video metadata extraction code, provided a year and a half ago. We need to work on that release often bit. Thanks also to Robert Kaye for cleaning up and packaging the release. If you want to be thanked in less than two years, check out the bitcollider bug and feature request tracker at sourceforge.

Anyone else, if you have files you’d like to alert (of the “it’s greeeat!” or “beware, malware” varieties) the world to, download bitcollider and use it to add said files to the Bitzi catalog.

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See Yous at Etech

Wednesday, February 4th, 2004

Posted on the Creative Commons weblog:

Creative Commons will be an exhibitor at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego next week.

Etech is regarded by many as the best tech conference of the year, always in step with the latest creations and aspirations of the alpha geeks, having evolved from the Peer-to-Peer Conference in early 2001 and P2P & Web Services in late 2001 to the current multi-tracked annual conference starting two years ago. (Incidentally, the Creative Commons concept was introduced at ETCon 2002. How time flies.)

Matt Haughey and Mike Linksvayer will be attending. Stop by the Creative Commons booth, or better yet our participant session (time and location yet to be announced). We’ll be introducing a new CC metadata-enhanced application. Hint: it’s described in one of our tech challenges, heretofore unmet.

If you’re in the area but not an attendee, you can still register for a free exhibits pass, or an exhibits plus keynotes and birds-of-a-feather (participant sessions) pass for only $50. Hope to see you there!

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