EFF Releases "The Tinseltown Club"

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"

Comments

Re:hard to grab flash

[Yottabyte84]

`wget http://action.eff.org/tinseltown/tinsel.swf` works for me. REALLY slow (350bps) because of /. but it works...

link to it!

[macsox]

userland's dave winer has an image you can use to link to the animation from your own website.

(i humbly admit that i made it. i am biased.)

Mirror of the MP3

[Turmio]

Kind of stupid to link an MP3 on Slashdot front page. I still managed to grab it after a couple of reconnect attempts.

Download here: http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/effmp3

Re:Why not make another statement?

[JungleBoy]

This is gonna hurt, I just know it. But here is the oggification of it!

EFF-Tinseltown_Club.ogg

Why do I think that I'm going to regret doing this.
:S

-The JungleBoy

link for file on edonkey p2p network

[Anonymous Coward]

if you have edonkey installed, this URL will get you the file(I know I'm sharing it, chances are other edonkey users are too); slashdot munges the URL, so you need to hand-paste it(sorry...yell at Slashdot.) Only works with IE, unless you've modified the registry to get edonkey links working inside of Opera.

ed2k://|file|20020528_eff_tinseltown_club.mp3|18 75 400|7d4c0b5d11e81ef532048116e7c6077d

BTW, you really DO need to get it from a P2P network. Their connection is crawling right now...and even if it isn't, each download costs 'em money.

Re:Why not make another statement?

[thesolo]

I've mirrored JungleBoy's Ogg version, to help lessen the load on his server. (Hope you don't mind! If you do for some reason, email me.)

You can all grab it at:
http://www.realfx.com/EFF-Tinseltown_Club.ogg

It is 1 meg in size; I have enough bandwidth for the /. community, but please don't crosspost the link, thanks. And be sure to tell your friends about it!

Seriously, I am really impressed by this effort, plus the quality of the song is just excellent. Go EFF! Also, if you haven't already, Join or Donate to the EFF!

Re:Lyrics

[Anonymous Coward]

This is how it sounds to me anyway...

Ooh, sing along kids!

Tinsel town club
Tinsel town club
Tinsel town club
Tinsel town club

Who believes the average ?janes? a criminal on the make
Disney and his show biz friends
Who have a lot at stake
Who with their locks turn back the clocks
The rights we have today
The entertainment moguls and CBDTPA

And they sell us stuff (it's overpriced!)
They lock it up (and that's not nice!)
So they can keep their profits in the sky (high! high! high!)
So join the fight, defend your rights
Before they're whisked away
Speak up fast! Don't let them pass CBDTPA

Numbers count (they make Congress pay attention!)
Tell all your friends about that old CBDTPA

Yet another mirror

[marcus-e]

...with the Flash movie and the music (in Ogg and MP3) has been set up here:

http://marcus.pixelmagic.nu/tinseltown_club/