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If TOR is too slow for everyday web browsing, it's way too slow for torrenting, and shush about newsgroups! ISPs might start thinking about blocking port 119.

Actually, the better thing to do would be to teach them about free music, such as ones provided at Jamendo and Opsound. And I mean free as in freedom, not as in lunch (kids shouldn't be drinking beer anyways).

And hopefully, the video situation will change in a few years as well ...

Some Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) music providers: Jamendo = http://www.jamendo.com/en/ Search CC = http://search.creativecommons.org/# OpSound = http://opsound.org/ w00tw0t0 Records http://w00tw0t0.net/ and a small internet Radio only CC music http://digilander.libero.it/freemusicstyle/ These are FREE and LEGAL. There is no need to pay anyone and sometimes, depending on the license, you are free to elaborate or even profit. So the estimated cost is "how much you want to donate". The quality is good if compared to the pieces of Britney Spears (for instance) but you won't easily find any boy band. As long as we know they are a marketing product and not real music. I know this is slightly offtopic, but I'll be glad if someone visits those sites and gets inspiration.

creative commons has a search built into their site.
http://www.creativecommons.org/

magnatune has music you can pay for or not.
http://www.magnatune.com/

opsound has creative commons licensed music
http://www.opsound.org/

and, of course, my favorite, Binary Beats has non-RIAA music
http://www.binarybeats.com/

opsound.org has indexes Creative Commons audio. Lots of good stuff.

I'm also going to shout out to anal0g.org and sudd.org

http://www.opsound.org/

Not all music is commercial, just most bad music.

The first tyme it was tried was through the FCC. The FCC issued rules requiring it, however the courts found the FCC had exceded it's authority. It didn't say congress can't do it though. So the MPAA/RIAA pay some congress critters to add it to a reconciliation bill. If it makes to a bill that Dubya signs then more than likely it'd end in court again.

When the MPAA/RIAA isn't able to get it's one way then it buldozes way another way. Because they're trying to be so heavy handed I've decided when I can I'll support groups like Creative Commons, Opsound, and Magnatune amoung others.

After reading that guide I'm glad I don't download or buy music online with DRM. If and when I ever start downloading music, I'll try to stick with creative commons websites or other websites like:

• Creative Commons
• dmusic.com
• Opsound
• Magnatunes

There are other websites that like Magnatune allows free or low cost music downloads. Some of these are:

• Creative Commons
• DMusic
• Opsound
• Internet Archives
• Prelinger Archives'
• Common Content

Also there's Berklee Shares where you can find free music lessons.

Open Sound
http://www.opsound.org/

or maybe

Internet Underground Music Archive http://www.iuma.com/

Typical slashdot, always last with the news...

This looks like a good time to support open source music.

You can start by browsing already "open sourced" works at opart.org and opsound.org. If you cannot find anything pre-existing to fit your needs, you will at least find a community of artisans who embrace open source principles. You'll also want to consult creative commons for the various free asin speech liscenses for the various mediums of art you'll be using.

I think you'll find that most open source artists, as with most open source developers are not seeking to be financially compensated directly, though are open for donations.

I myself am an "open source" musician and have contributed music to a few open source projects: SonarBuoyix and Tong.

My favourite:

opsound.org

- Voice of Ambience -

Not quite so automated (yet), but their are quite a few very good bits of music and images. Check out opart.org and opsound.org for a rather eclectic selection. Check out Loca Records for some highly polished electronica music. subatomicglue is a great electronic band using copyleft. Finally, I have a 4 GB copyleft music archive at dxdt.org/audio/. Also see some ideas for how a p2p system could work at www.dxdt.org/exchange.html

As more and more of theses sites get tagged well w.r.t. license and contributor information, we should see some great search engines, with features like: show derivative works, show sources, etc.

Luke Stodola

Doing creative video production can be a lot like creating a game, and in this particular instance, what you're searching for is pre-made foley.

A lot of effects can be made simply by rubbing/banging objects together and then tweaking them, e.g., a grandfather clock is a piece of thick, taught cable hit lightly by a tire iron, slowed down 300%, and repeated. A sizeable personal effects library can be made by going around with even so much as a tape/MD recorder and a good mic just getting sounds from anywhere and everywhere. I'd recommend a boom mic if at all possible to prevent picking up background noise. But you might look a little weird doing it.

For "artificial" effects and maybe a little music, Korg's Electribe series of synths (EA-1 Analog Synth, ES-1 Sampler, ER-1 Rhythym Synth, EM[X]-1 "Music Production Stations" -- does all of the above to a limited extent) can provide endless resources, when properly played with, at least. I remember being in a crunch for a project and synthing out a perfect submarine "ping" in ten minutes on the ER-1. Obviously, more expensive synths will do more.

If you're really going for pre-made (despite my lectures to the contrary), try Opsounds -- Copyleft for audio. Make sure and contribute back, mmmk?

And of course, Sounddogs. The sounds (and even short-length compositions) are incredibly cheap -- we're talking $0.30-2.00 or so depending on length and license, high-quality, downloadable OR they can burn a CD and send it to you, and it's royalty-free forever at purchase. Considering they merely resell licensed effects, you'll probably find more than a few effects that you're trying to imitate in the first place.

It'd be nice if there was a website out there that was like the SourceForge of music. You could sign up and you would get your own webspace, so you could set up a website. The network would have stats that show what artists are most popular. It would rank website hits, and song downloads for each genre. I have ran across a couple website like this, but none of them are quite what I have in mind. There is Opsound that uses the Creative Commons licenses, but it doesn't let you host your songs there. There is also IUMA , but I'd like to see a site like this with more statistics, and that is more user friendly. Does anyone know of any websites out there like these that fit more with what I have in mind?

I think the real issue is that the internet provides the opportunity for a real barter economy - I share something with you; you recipricate.

The amount of sharing going on on the net does not equal the drop off in record sales. The simple fact of the matter is that what is being produced today is not wanted (dare I say it sucks?), as much as they would like to shove it down our throats. Just because a record is released doesn't mean it should automatically make money (particularly if it sucks).

I urge anyone reading this to boycott the major record labels, and conversely start donating small amounts to independent OPEN SOURCE record labels - LIKE THIS ONE

If you are involved in music just to make money, then you are in it for the wrong reasons. Do us all a favor, and become a used car salesman...

Actually, because of the Verizon case, I have decided to boycott all commercially recorded music which forbid the rights to free distribution. By boycott, I don't merely mean "refusing to buy" CD's. I mean refusing even to listen or download such music (even illegally). Yes, that probably means that I will no longer listen to Philip Glass, Suzanne Vega, etc. Once they wise up and liberalize their licenses, I might consider listening to them again. And I might also consider checking their CD's out of the library (whenever I feel a pang of nostalgia, in the same way that a Russian might for a moment miss a gulag's watery soup).

The restrictive licenses of music companies essentially lock commercial music in the vault. I'm not interested in picking locks anymore just for a momentary glimpse at these so-called "precious" flowers. I'm interested in enjoying what is free out in the free air. Let all those "precious" flowers in the vault lose their color, rot away and turn into crap. Good riddance.

We as creative artists need to wean ourselves from this enslavement that we call "copyright enforcement." The people and companies who benefit by starving artists, drafting exploitative contracts and preventing works of art from being distributed freely deserve nothing less than our contempt.

You may say: how could I survive without vault music? Simple. If the music rots away in the vault, it was already dead to begin with. Who wants to keep dead flowers around? Instead of locking flowers in the vault, it is better to appreciate them in the open where it's easy to pick and admire. We are like bees admiring the flowers all around us, flitting about, taking what we need and moving on (and propagating the beauty of what we see at the same time). Flowers look pretty among other flowers, not inside some ugly dirty vault guarded by lawyers with vulture-like beaks. As the public areas become more covered with flowers, the desire to possess the rotting heaps in the vault will seem more bizzare, less relevant. The best way to increase the number of flowers in this world is to open the gardens up to bees. Anyway, it is folly to think that a group of lawyers (and that is essentially what a music company is ) owns a song or a human voice or an image. The copyright to Beauty is owned by one person, and that is God. His lawyers are ruthless and know the law of nature backwards and forwards. The license they enforce allows infinite creation and multiplication, but banishes those who say beauty belongs to one.

Freeing myself from the music of the vault provides an opportunity to learn about artists with more enlightened views toward distribution. I plan to patronize them in many ways, including donations. Also, I plan to attend more concerts and still pay for my commercial-free Internet radio ($5 a month) until decent creative commons radio stations emerge. It doesn't mean that I am opposed to paying money for music per se. But when I pay for music, I want either to have free distribution rights and/or the certainty that the artist is receiving at least 50% of the money I am paying. What do artists for major labels now receive? 1%?

Actually lawyers are not completely the culprit here. It would be a trivial matter for lawyers on either the artist's or industry's side to draft a limited duration copyright. All ownership rights could expire after about 5 or 10 years. Artists are partially to blame for not insis