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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. Re:hard to grab flash by Yottabyte84 · · Score: 3, Informative

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

  2. link to it! by macsox · · Score: 4, Informative

    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
  3. Mirror of the MP3 by Turmio · · Score: 4, Informative
    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

  4. Re:Why not make another statement? by JungleBoy · · Score: 5, Informative

    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
  5. Re:Why not make another statement? by thesolo · · Score: 3, Informative

    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!

  6. Yet another mirror by marcus-e · · Score: 2, Informative

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

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