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EFF Releases "The Tinseltown Club"

Posted by chrisd on from the all-hail-the-floating-head-of-seth-david-schoen dept.

Seth Schoen writes: "Sing along, kids! EFF is debuting the EFF Action Center with a song produced by EFF and friends -- the Tinsel Town Club Song (a parody of the "Mickey Mouse Club Song"). "Tinseltown Club" makes fun of Disney for its support of legislation which takes away your rights. There's also an MP3 version (with better sound quality) for those who can't see the Flash animation, and we expect to make several other formats available soon. To help save bandwidth, we are encouraging listeners to share the song on peer-to-peer networks." Update: Seth has written in with some mirrors you can try, I've posted his note in the story.. Seth says:

"Please try P2P networks first, before going to an HTTP site! The song and animation are definitely out there on the P2P networks by now.

For those who have BitTorrent, use http://bittorrent.theory.org:8080/20020528_eff_tinseltown_club.mp3

For those who use http, get The MP3 from here.

Please go easy on action.eff.org (where the Flash animation is posted) and please do set up and publicize your own mirrors.

  • Seth"

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  1. I hope by gazbo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    they get sued for copyright infringement.

  2. sigh by BilldaCat · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    this is just sad. the last thing that's going to convince me disney is evil is a bunch of geeks singing, badly at that.

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  3. slashdot EFF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What better way for EFF to spend my contribution than paying for the bandwidth bill from the slashdot effect!

  4. saving bandwidth? by Rombuu · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    To help save bandwidth, we are encouraging listeners to share the song on peer-to-peer networks

    Huh? There is no bandwidth saved. What they mean is, we want to shift the cost of distributing this thing to other people.

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  5. Hypocrisy Alert! by Aquaman616 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Hmmm... so Flash is a bad evil tool of the devil (as spouted here at Slashdot) but when the EFF uses it, no problem? Come on.

    The toon simply proves the point that the SWF format is the best way to do such cartoons and interactivity on the web. Why won't the open source community embrace it and make a good GUI editor for it? While cool and all, I'm simply not able to make such a cartoon with free software. Unless the EFF is hiding some cool new tool from us they are using some non-free proprietary software to make that SWF, period.

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