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Yes, which is the reason why it has to be reflected upon before it reaches the commercial level.
BEcause of the Internet, we don't need a comemrcial circuit, we need communication aver what is being made.
That's why I created GNUArt: To give creators a possibility to get their stuff circulating with no restrictions other than ensuring their contribution would remain known as theirs.
Now, if the gallery gained popularity it would help benevolents distributing their creations.

I'm sorry for you.
I don't want to advocate your sister but having been through that I'd say that I felt really alone.
I felt I needed some change.
The most obvious one would have been to die.
At the last minute, after 2 weeks of starvation (didn't it but drank a lot... Champagne and Vodka/Martini were a bargain because of the approaching end of year) I decided to make it an Ad Absurdum Reductio.
If I were to meet your sister at the time she needed it, I'd sugegst she'd do it, but not as at a psychiatrist : you don't want to make it whle resting on a sofa, with some prozac to alter your perception. You want it to be painful, you want it to be like vomit.
Tell the things you don't mean, tell the things that hurt (but warn the people that'll hear you before that you tell things you don't especially mean but that you have to throw up).
At ther end of the day, you'l feel more indulgent.
I can't believe I write this song.

Given the replies and personal email I got, I wanted to specify something :

I wrote "I had" becase it's over.
I'm cured.
I was having a bad time: I lost a job which I actually hated, and I also considered changing my life.

I then had the following strategy : Waiting until the temperature would fall below -10C and sleep naked in my balcony.
The cold came... but too late.

I did not want to end it abruptly because I am married with a delicious woman and I wanted it to look like an accident.

Finally, I decided to perform my auto-therapy.
I am creative, you might not lik what I do but I have fun doin it.

I recorded a rock album which is described here and available (for free) here.

My advice ?
Spit the anger and the fear. You'll end fearless, stronger and alive !
God bless you.

1. They kept working on it THAT long despite slandering and scepticism such as yours
   
2. The rest of the software library (glib, bash, etc.) is already ready
   
3. With Linux, Hurd and BSD amongst others, we are slowly getting back to the same variety we had 20 years ago, when we had to exchange basic listings and to port these onto various platforms (Sinclair, Commodore, Amstrad, Sharp...)
   

Good, I hope it's available for OSX so that I might use it to broadcast all the contents of the http://gnuart.net/data/musique/ directory :)

Royalties to whom ?
All of the GNUArt music is royalty-free !

1. 10% but in my defense, I was just to lazy to rip the cd or vinyls myself
2. 0%
3. 50%
4. 35%
5. 5%

An attempt at French, for the hell of it:

Ces photos la sont absolument fantastique! Bravo. Combien d'heurs es qu'il a pris pour marchez au sommet de le montagne dans le photo ici?

Mois-meme, j'ai escaledez le volcan Masaya est une autre volcan sur l'isle Omatepe dans Nicaragua; l'un a Omatepe etait presque 2km d'hauteur, est il m'a pris presque deux heurs pour l'escaledez. L'autre, a Masaya, etait plus facil de escaladez; j'etait dans un camion, sauf que les dernier cent metre etait sur pied (j'etait assez efferayez au sommet)! Come vous avez dit, le vista est merveilleux. Au sommet de Masaya, je pouvait voir le capital du pays, Managua, plus de 50km distant.

An attempt at French, for the hell of it:

Ces photos la sont absolument fantastique! Bravo. Combien d'heurs es qu'il a pris pour marchez au sommet de le montagne dans le photo ici?

Mois-meme, j'ai escaledez le volcan Masaya est une autre volcan sur l'isle Omatepe dans Nicaragua; l'un a Omatepe etait presque 2km d'hauteur, est il m'a pris presque deux heurs pour l'escaledez. L'autre, a Masaya, etait plus facil de escaladez; j'etait dans un camion, sauf que les dernier cent metre etait sur pied (j'etait assez efferayez au sommet)! Come vous avez dit, le vista est merveilleux. Au sommet de Masaya, je pouvait voir le capital du pays, Managua, plus de 50km distant.

It is ratehr when I go hiking in the Swiss Mountains, I suddenly feel empowered...
I guess they should not just disconnect these "users" but rather offer them to practise some intensive sport activities instead.

Hiking in the mountains is a good candidate because it is also rewarding : you get to see some magnificent landscape when you reach the top.

There's also Photoplane which consists of putting a camera on a radio-guided plane.

1. Yes, does this make me a terrorist, then ?
   
2. Your point would be valid if we discussed something practical. Here we discuss something artistical and people really want to explore before beginning the eventual commercial agreement. This is also a reason I created GNUArt, to help people gather creations that otherwise would never have emerged and would have shamelessly been lost.
   
3. You're a Klingon :)
   

GNUArt gallery : Free music and whatever..

...GNUArt, which charter have been proof-read by RMS has gotten 3 year old last Thursday !

Music is a part of our culture.

Yep, but not only Britney's.
That's the reason why I created GNUArt.net, in order to give most artistss i know the opportunity to share music or Art they once created instead of dumping their old tapes or photos...

Of course, this may die if noone helps but I'll have at leat made these last a little more, and eventuallly given these the opportunity to be reworked by others...

Start your own site and stop visiting this one.
this is quite manichean..
If I am here, it's obviously for some reason, be it some interesting stuff, or for the happy "trolling" (I read at -1 and most posts are hilarious, due to the context, of course).
Now, I also direct many other communities whose members I may direct here as well as whose members'comments I could forward here.

Now, there's no "love it or live it". From my point of view (the beautiful Swiss mountains), I am not in America.
So, my concept is : if you do not like it and you cannot destroy it, then help making it better.
I guess this is more constructive than your plotless rethorical speeches, Mrs Anny Nomous.

Making some digital media available online is not new.
I remember having the possibility to purchase media online long before this.
Now, if, of course, having these integrated in iTunes is cool, I somehow doubt it is that "cutting edge" (even though I am a Mac enthusiast and I love OSX).

Intertrolls

If music should have a compulsory license, why shouldn't movies, software, ebooks and other media also be covered by compulsory licenses?"

Whatever : GNUArt covers all.

Photoplane takes aerial pictures using a small remote-controlled plane.

Is it an allusion to Richard Stallman's speech ?

• Debugging (lyrics by RMS)
  
• Boot It! (lyrics by RMS)
  
• 1983 (electro remix of an RMS speech)
  

• Debugging (lyrics by RMS)
  
• Boot It! (lyrics by RMS)
  
• 1983 (electro remix of an RMS speech)
  

• Debugging (lyrics by RMS)
  
• Boot It! (lyrics by RMS)
  
• 1983 (electro remix of an RMS speech)
  

• Debugging (lyrics by RMS)
  
• Boot It! (lyrics by RMS)
  
• 1983 (electro remix of an RMS speech)
  

So, Plan 9 got GNUArt'ed ???

Something I really appreciate about this move from Apple is that they are actually offering the only decent point of comparison with GNUArt :
Besides p2p which is illicit, they are indeed selling professional stuff whereas GNUArtists are sharing their own amateurish but "Open-sourced" stuff ; once people will realize they have to pay 7425$ to fill their new iPod, they'll also want to visit Free galleries such as ours.

So, we can only benefit from this "competition".
Thanks, Herr Jobs !

Hoarders may get piles of money,
That is true, hackers, that is true.
But they cannot help their neighbors;
That's not good, hackers, that's not good.

Try here :
http://www.gnuart.net/data/musique/Tompox/AmoureTo ujoure/FreeSoftware.zip...
It's a remix using the original sound file.

GNUArt opened a GPL'ed Art Gallery in January 2001.

I am however pleased to see that other people begin in the same direction which will make this way of thinking more and more popular until the merchants begin to think differently about what copyright protection should mean for the artists.

I download loads of music but only songs that I already have on vinyl records.
(or also GPL'ed music)
I spent a lot of money on these records years ago so I don't accept being called a pirate.
Am I wrong ?

The problems with open music, however, haven't put people off trying open source methods elsewhere.

They actually forgot to mention GNUArt which is my attempt to apply the GNU General Public License to Art.

We also opened a Gallery which we slowly fill with whatever quality stuff (mostly music and photographs but, hey, the one who criticize are supposed to help too ;-) we get from unselfish artists.

That's it, hope it'll raise some interest.

...They didn't explicitely mention Free Music mouvements, such as GNUArt.
Doing it for the pleasure instead of doing it for a living doesn't mean it's bad.
BTW, we have professional who gave us some of their songs (not all) which helped their fame propagate.

I'd accept to subscribe to some sites (which is actually what this idea consists of) if in return they'd guarantee me the quality and relevance of the info I could fetch from them.

But such info should be concurrential, IE not taken from existing books... if it is Free, then I should not been billed, etc. etc.

Well, actually what I mean is what I originally meant 10 years ago: the Internet is the Great Library, it belongs to the mankind patrimony and as such one can't force people to pay to benefit from it.

The only decent retribution to such a service which spreads culture among the world would just be to require people to spontaneously accept to contribute to make it a place where we can getr even more knowledge.

So, well.... no, thanks. You may open paying sites (wasn't Slashdot supposed to become a fee-based service, anyway ?) but you won't see me there, then... And if you look for me, I am webmastering the GNUArt websites...

• I write all of my MP3 on CDRs so that I can listen too it on my Expanium while biking, guess it'll take them a long time to just realise my laptop is not the right place to search
• broomstick, is temporarily under Linux (I am developping somethin else)...Hope they can just "see" it if they want to hack it
• the MP3 I collect are the digital versions of songs I buy as second-hand LP's so they might find it even harder to prove that I infringed their shit
• Last but not least: when I don't listen too these good'ole times songs, I listen to GNUArt GPL'ed music which makes it definitely a bad day for their "hackers".

• being the prisoner of a contract signed with a major company
• just giving away stuff that may be "patented by somebody else"

• being the prisoner of a contract signed with a major company
• just giving away stuff that may be "patented by somebody else"

• The art to be protected is considered in a virtual, infinitely copiable form
• The source code of art is clearly defined as "whichever information needed by another artist to modify the original"

FYI, the GNUArt Project which consists of GPL'ing Art has become reality on http://gnuart.org (charter) and http://gnuart.net (gallery) on January 1st, 2001.
The advantage of GNUArt is obvious as, instead of having yet another license, we just exploit a valid existing one.
It is still being translated to english at the moment but you have the fish until then.
The charter was co-written with Richard Stallman.
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> The lesson that "No, you don't have to give
> up all your rights to your work in exchange
> for publication anymore" is one that
> musicians could stand to learn as well.
FYI, the GNUArt Project which consists of GPL'ing Art has become reality on http://gnuart.org (charter) and http://gnuart.net (gallery) on January 1st, 2001.
It is still being translated to english at the moment but you have the fish until then.
The charter was co-written with Richard Stallman.
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• Napster will tag downloaded files on the fly...
• Any file, even Public Domain or "GNUArt'ed"
• Most Napster user download less and less stuff as they usually look for what they want, not "anything available"

• It won't be the same for current Napster addicts who have plenty of MP3 they can still share?
• There won't be somebody to just add some filtering on Napster client in order to just ignore "tagged" files?

This is an ethical problem and RMS does an outstanding job defending our rights.
Though inhabitual, his position concerning Open Source is right and coherent: You *can't* fight for Freedom if you accept concessions with what you describe as *bad*.
Now, if RMS'positions often regard computer science, it is because he is working in this area now, the real question is "can we have our innovation and creativity biaised by financial interests ?"
How can we doubtlessly agree when we see a company patenting something not because it is revolutionary but because it is common sense?
In such case, we all know "they" patent it because of the money they get out of it, they patent it as marketers, not as scientists nor artists.
So, when will they patent laws?
They actually started, it is called the ISO standard and we all know how much royalties we have to pay to grant this "honour" to an organization. ISO9xxx standards are hinderences to evolution.
The GPL can actually be applied to many domains such as Art (try this too). If we want to progress, we have to share, if we want to share, we need to renounce to any mark of property. Or to share the discovery's rights with any person who directly or not contributed to it, which is equivalent to sharing it with the whole universe and is reflected by the GPL.
I say "Go on, Richard, I am standing with you".
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Check GNUArt : GNUArt.org and GNUArt.net