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"
`wget http://action.eff.org/tinseltown/tinsel.swf` works for me. REALLY slow (350bps) because of /. but it works...
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.)
go get it
Download here: http://shakti.tky.hut.fi/slashdot/effmp3
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
"You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet might be running loose in your pants."
-Calvin
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.
8 75 400|7d4c0b5d11e81ef532048116e7c6077d
ed2k://|file|20020528_eff_tinseltown_club.mp3|1
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.
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.)
/. community, but please don't crosspost the link, thanks. And be sure to tell your friends about it!
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
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!
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
...with the Flash movie and the music (in Ogg and MP3) has been set up here:
http://marcus.pixelmagic.nu/tinseltown_club/