Legal South Park Video Streams
2008-03-25 14:39:03 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Movies/TV
South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have just relaunched their South Park Studios website with Comedy Central and you can stream and watch everyu episode from all of the show's 12 seasons for free. The creators decided to do this because they were sick of having to download their own shows from Bittorrent or YouTube so they gave themselves a legal alternative. UPDATE |
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2008-03-24 14:34:48 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Politics
In an interesting twist, the actress who played the girl in the stock footage that appeared in Hillary's 3am red phone ad, has created a video acknowledging her support for Barack Obama! UPDATE |
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2008-03-22 19:03:05 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Digital Rights
John MacNeill, a 3D CGI artist from Watertown, Massachusetts has recently found himself on the receiving end of a wrongful DMCA takedown claim. He recreated a World War II B-24 Bomber as a 3D model and uploaded it to the website, Turbosquid, a 3D image stock site. Lockeed Martin claimed that it was an infringement and wrongfully ordered Turbosquid to remove the file.
As John MacNeill states in his article about this: "A photographer can take a photo of any type of car and sell the photo; look at any car magazine. A painter can create a painting of anything and sell that, remember Andy Warhol's famous 1968 painting of a can of Campbell's tomato soup? But a CG artist cannot create a sculpture of a Ford Mustang and sell that, at least not on Turbo Squid. There is obviously a double standard here. So where does this leave CG artists? Until a stock company becomes willing to fight back against these takedowns, there seems little any individual artist can do." Also see what Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing.net has to add to this. LINK UPDATE |
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2008-03-21 14:26:05 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Politics
The Change Congress project's first mission is to diminish the influence of money in the legislative body by influencing the outcome of the 2008 election campaigns of 67 members of congress which are up for grabs. As the Change Congress project founder Larry Lessig noted in the project's launch Thursday afternoon, there haven't been so many seats open up for challenge in more than a decade.
Lessig, known for his decade-long role in trying to loosen the entertainment industry's vice-like grip on popular culture by shaping copyright law, is betting that the energy and dissatisfaction exhibited by voters against the status-quo in Washington DC, and the emergence of collaborative software that enables vast numbers of geographically-dispersed citizens to become politically active on their own schedule, will enable a new kind of transparency and accountability in political campaigns.
"The problem we face is ... the problem of crony capitalism using money to capture government," he said on Monday during the launch of his project in Washington, DC. "The challenge is whether in fact we can change this. The political experts tell you that it can't be done, that process always win over substance." [by Sarah Lai Stirland from Wired]
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2008-03-20 14:29:10 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
“Kelly” is a CC-BY-NC licensed webcomic written and illustrated by Dan Goldman. The comic’s incredible mixed-media illustration reveals “a psychedelic psychodrama about love, truth and conflicting interior landscapes in a tiny shared New York apartment”. “Kelly” is serialized at ACT-I-VATE, an online comic collective. [by Rebecca Rojer from CreativeCommons.org] The Video is from 'Shooting War', also illustrated by Dan Goldman. UPDATE |
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2008-03-19 15:36:11 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
While Google has made headlines over the last two years for scanning thousands of copyrighted works for its Book Search project, the Internet Archive is quietly digitizing around 1,000 public domain titles every day.
For those picturing an efficient, automated process involving robotic arms and high-tech scanners, the scanning at the University of California's Northern Regional Library Facility is relatively primitive. With monastic diligence, workers sit in book-scanning stations and manually turn pages all day long.
The process is labor-intensive, but surprisingly efficient: The text collection on archive.org is the world's largest online collection of free books, with nearly 350,000 titles and growing.
And though there are high-end auto book scanners on the market, even a giant like Google is reportedly using a similar manual process due to size variance and the delicacy of old books.
It's still unclear whether the courts will allow copyrighted books scanned by Google to stay online, but the titles scanned at the Internet Archive will always be free and available. You can even order copies to be printed on demand and shipped to your home, paying only for production costs. Take the Wired.com tour of this grass-roots effort to liberate books from the confines of scarcity. [by Dave Bullock - Wired Magazine]
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2008-03-18 15:44:56 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Technology
PrimetimeRewind.tv and Hulu.com have launched their new sites which provide users with free access to high quality video content including most of your favourite TV shows from the major networks - all legit. The 3D cube effect on PrimeTimeRewind is a nice touch and the videos stream pretty quickly. Only bad point is that they are ad supported - but the quality of the content may make up for this. No doubt these services will become very popular very quickly... UPDATE |
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2008-03-17 20:44:06 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Who needs a movie? Getting Married? Got a web site? Fund raising? Commercials? Selling something? Movies can make your life go better!! UPDATE |
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2008-03-14 15:40:19 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
The folks at MoveOn.org are hosting a new video contest following on from the success of their previous one 'Bush in 30 Seconds.' This time it's 'Obama in 30 Seconds.' The winner will receive a gift certificate for $20,000 in video equipment and the winning ad will air nationally. You can submit ads from March 27 to April 1 before MoveOn's members start voting. The final winners will be chosen by a panel of judges that includes Lawrence Lessig, Markos Moulitsas, Matt & Ben, DJ Spooky, Jesse Jackson, Steve Buscemi, Naomi Wolf, Ben Affleck, Oliver Stone and others. UPDATE |
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2008-03-13 14:59:12 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
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