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  1. Re:A Cautionary Tale of... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on A Cautionary Tale of Open Source Social Technologies

    the answer.

  2. Re:LoadingReadyRun by triffid_98 · · Score: 1 · on Will the Web Replace TV?
    Channel101 has had some fun shows. Definitely check out Hartman's work, Adventurous und Magick Haus is classic.

    Another really fun 'independant' series can be found here

    Then there's the ever popular Channel101, offering us entertainment like this...
  3. Re:LoadingReadyRun by Amiga+Trombone · · Score: 3, Informative · on Will the Web Replace TV?

    Then there's the ever popular Channel101, offering us entertainment like this...

  4. Channel 101 by Dr.+Cody · · Score: 1 · on Blast-Proof Fabric Resists Multiple Explosions

    Swords will fucking cut your hands off

  5. Re:Curious by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 1 · on Why Make a Sequel of the Napster Wars?

    Change the directors and producers. I have many director friends, all young and trying to break in, but none of them are even remotely interested in making a film and putting on YouTube to tell their stories. That's interesting because I know a bunch that are putting stuff up on youtube and elsewhere, and they seem to be getting the attention that they want from the studios and the cable networks. A few have been able to make a living as creators (and not just getting paid to work on another's project), while others have not yet crossed that line, i.e., they have to keep their day gig.

    What is really telling is that even the ones that are successful or are becoming successful are still making their goofy little videos for the web. When you ask any of them why, the most common answer is that they're making these vids to entertain their friends and themselves.

    Most, but not all, of the people I know doing this are active creators on Channel101. Usually they're also putting stuff on youtube, but Channel101 is for the peer group. Check it out if you haven't seen it. And keep your eyes open for some people you'll surely recognize.
  6. Re:Who cares if they abandon it? by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 1 · on Where the Wii Fits In

    When is Lucas gonna make a light sabre game!!!!! I can't wait.. gonna have to try out one of the sword games I guess... Are you retarded? Swords will fucking cut you wide open!

    Remember Trip Fisk's Three Ds the next time you are tempted by a sword:

    Dead - As in that is what you will be if you mess with swords

    Dying - As in that's what your friends and family are going to be doing if you buy a sword.

    Don't - fucking touch swords.

    (Sorry about the profanity, but it was necessary to preserve the artistic integrity of the video.)

  7. Re:Hardware DRM Serves One Purpose by warmcat · · Score: 1 · on New Consortium to Push UDI and Include DRM

    > For example, SSL certificates aren't free, unless they're self-signed

    http://www.cacert.org/

    Bad example.

    A genuine 'tax' aspect will be coming in the form of the patent rights in the codecs needed to encode to the media.

    The kind of closed systems you are worrying about already exist in signed games for consoles and the special optical media needed for PSPs, but isn't credible to take camcorders and HD camcorders out of the public's hands. AFAICT all upcoming AV systems for TV-style use will naturally allow unencrypted content at the highest quality going on.

    People are producing free media content at the moment, eg,

    http://channel101.com/
    http://channel102.net/

    it's not such a great leap to imagine that from these small beginnings in a few years one will be able to at least get part of your entertainment needs direct from the Internet to your HD TV without DRM at all. The more restrictive the traditional media the better the chance for growth in the liberally licensed stuff, so I have come to welcome and encourage all this DRM garbage so long as unencrypted content plays by default.

  8. Re:TV and Video Online by DisKurzion · · Score: 1 · on Adult Swim To Offer Streaming Video Option

    I would also like to add something, although not always "family-friendly":

    http://channel101.com/

    Definitely something different.

  9. Re:Very true by Dwonis · · Score: 1 · on BitTorrent: Sysadmins to face the music

    You see, Theo, it's probably a reference to the HOUSE of COSBYS, you know.

  10. off-topic? heaven forfend! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on OpenBSD Clashes with Adaptec In Quest for Docs

    did someone say theo?

  11. How do you define free? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Star Wars Revelations - May the Force Be With You!

    I think in many ways, you're right. When the day comes when we can easily download internet video content to our TVs at home, indie films will be much more able to compete with DVDs from the major studios, and we'll see a lot more great content that finds an audience this way.

    But good work takes money. And more importantly, don't most of us *want* to help out the people who make the things we like?

    Take Chris Tallman's Time Belt, for instance. I loved this little show, and I know a lot of others did too. I would gladly have paid a few bucks a month if I knew there were a thousand other people doing the same thing, and that doing so would get us all a new episode of Time Belt each month.

    I don't know Tallman, so I can't say whether or not a deal like this would've interested him. But I suspect it might have.

    There is a ton of free content out there, and there always will be, but when it comes to art, sometimes there are no substitutions. And I'm glad to pay when I like the person or what they make. So I guess my point here is that rather than describing things in terms of free vs. pay, it seems more productive to me to frame it in terms of opening the market to everyone rather than the virtues of destroying the market alltogether. Don't you think?

    Hope that made sense.

  12. Great stuff... here's where to find more. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Fan Group Creates Full-Length Discworld Movie

    Wonderfully entertaining, kitschy trailer.

    For more stuff quite like this, check out Channel 101 and its New York sister site, Channel 102.

    For an example of how brilliant zero-budget filmmaking can be, check out their winner for this month's contest: House of Cosbys.

    If you don't laugh at this, you're probably Bill Cosby. And even then.... well, just click.

  13. Great stuff... here's where to find more. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Fan Group Creates Full-Length Discworld Movie

    Wonderfully entertaining, kitschy trailer.

    For more stuff quite like this, check out Channel 101 and its New York sister site, Channel 102.

    For an example of how brilliant zero-budget filmmaking can be, check out their winner for this month's contest: House of Cosbys.

    If you don't laugh at this, you're probably Bill Cosby. And even then.... well, just click.

  14. Re:SUPPLY AND DEMAND by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on BitTorrent Community After SuprNova Shutdown

    Try looking at channel 101 some time. Hilarious videos made with almost no money, for no money. Why? Because that's what these people like doing, and some of them do it well enough to be working on full budget movies right now.

  15. Re:iMovie by denthijs · · Score: 2, Interesting · on The Future of Student Films

    A bit OT but very illustrational:
    to see some great examples of low budget moviemaking visit http://channel101.com/
    Once you've seen SockBaby: http://channel101.com/view.php?media_id=121 you'll know why they carry the subtitle: The Unavoidable Future of Entertainment
    Enjoy

  16. Re:iMovie by denthijs · · Score: 2, Interesting · on The Future of Student Films

    A bit OT but very illustrational:
    to see some great examples of low budget moviemaking visit http://channel101.com/
    Once you've seen SockBaby: http://channel101.com/view.php?media_id=121 you'll know why they carry the subtitle: The Unavoidable Future of Entertainment
    Enjoy