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Homemade Star Wars Flick/Fanimatrix Movie
Geminus writes "There's a really cool fanmade Star Wars video called 'Duality' in the wild. The homemade video used only three props and apparently the quality was good enough that the makers were hired on by Lucas Films. The film was 90% made with Electric Image Universe, Adobe After Effects, FinalcutPro, and Commotion Pro. Of course the rest was the blood sweat and tears of the crew. I have to admit it is a very good example of what software can do today without million dollar render farms and special effects equipment." And as a followup to the Fanimatrix story the other day, the movie is now available: LarsBT writes "It's out. Get the full movie. Here's the torrents: normal mpeg version torrent (170 MB); Normal Divx version torrent (73 MB); and finally the High quality DivX torrent (135 MB)."
To Junis and all the Commodore users in Afghanistan and throughout the world.
I DIDN'T FAIL IT!!!
Michael Sims, Domain Hijacking and Moral Equivalency by Jonathan Wallace jw@bway.net
How would you feel if your webmaster maliciously took your web-site offline, then, when you demanded its return, put up a site attacking your company at your old URL? It happened to a group I was involved in, the Censorware Project, currently at http://www.censorware.net. The purpose of this essay is to put the behavior on record, and to give you some impressions and inferences about it.
The Censorware Project was originally an informal collective of six people who collaborated online to fight censorware: Seth Finkelstein, Bennett Haselton, Jamie McCarthy, Mike Sims, Jim Tyre and myself. Several of us had never met or even spoken on the phone, yet for some time -- around two years as I recall -- we had a remarkably easy collaboration. There was no funding, no hierarchy, no titles, not even project managers. Someone would suggest a project and take the responsibility for a part of it, others would sign up for other elements, and proceeding this way we got a remarkable amount of work done, including reports on X-Stop, Cyberpatrol, Bess and other censorware products.
Even though two of us were attorneys -- Jim and myself -- we never incorporated the group or wrote a charter or any contracts among ourselves. Mike Sims was obliging enough to register the domain, just as other members paid for press releases and the other incidental expenses which came along. Mike also served as webmaster of the censorware.org site and did substantial work for the group, including writing contributions to several of the reports and lead authorship of at least one. Seth was the source of our decrypted censorware blacklists and managed many technical tasks, but later felt he had to leave the group because of the increasing prospects of a lawsuit, particularly under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). After Seth left the group, the remaining five continued.
Robert Frost said that "nothing gold can stay," and the Censorware Project was no exception. Over the summer of 2000, Mike Sims' reaction to a perceived slight from Jim Tyre was to take the site down for a week. He sent us mail at the time saying something like "The Censorware Project is now closed." I replied to him that, given that the group was a collective and we all had an interest in its work product, the domain, and the goodwill it had achieved, the decision was not his to make. Sims did not reply.
After Seth created a partial, text, mirror, Mike put the site back up a week later without explaining, let alone apologizing for, his actions. Given his continuing failure to answer any email from me (and I think from others) and the overall signs that Sims thought the group was exclusively his, I wrote him several emails requesting that he turn the domain over to Jamie or Bennett, as I felt we could no longer trust him to administer it. We also found out during that time that important email from people trying to contact us, including members of the press, was not being answered by Sims, nor being forwarded to other members.
I ultimately became exasperated that my name was listed as a principal on what had now become a "rogue" site I had no control over. Over about a five week period, I wrote Sims several more emails asking him to del
Why was this not moderated down, but the GNAA troll was moderated down?
I dont see anything wrong with NDA's. Its just a sign that intellectual property rights are gaining, not losing, strenghths in the marketplace.
Perhaps we should begin to readjust our priorities.
D00d, don't you have anything better to do with your time than come up some degrading story about a special taco...? grow up m8...
morons WANdering about use of term interaction
for the most part, that appears to mean that you sheeples read the pitch, & hopefully pull out
yOUR wallets. that's your end of the 'interaction'.
other possible uses for the miracles of communication we've been given:
disempowering the unprecedented evile that is destroying the planet/population.
how does won login/become a member?
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. get more oxygen on yOUR brains. seek others of non-aggressive
intentions/behaviours.
couldn't be easier. what's blocking all this interaction/cooperation? why greed/fear based
misinformation canpains of course.
you NEVER hear of any corepirate deathmongers touting oxygen, even though it's the best thing for
you/us. perhaps there's no countabull profit in it. another possibility is the overwhelming fear
associated with knowing that a power that exceeds all known before, is in the wings/air.
we're in crisis mode. the lights are coming up. pay attention (to the weather for example). it's
affordable, & tends to help prevent being misled further.
man i wish i could mod your stupid sorry ass off-topic right about now
Shut up, Malda.
I click on teh link to download the movie and I get this .torrent file that mozilla warns me is trying to hack my computer.... what do I need to play .torrent files?
completely off topic, but I just found a great site (in my eyes) and was wondering if anyone could tell me how to view a websites source code without actually opening it... http://meshier.com/fs/a/ is the site, but be warned, don't go there unless your prepared for a fight... Thanks
"If they existed, they would be here already." - Enrico Fermi
Posted by michael on Sunday September 28, @21:45
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by fjordboy (169716) on Sunday September 28, @21:48
Man, what's your ISP???
What kind of bullshit is this?
They're clearly sponsored by Microsoft - didn't see any official X-Box promos in the show, but the previews/reviews made it MORE than apparent. These guys totally suck X-Box cock. The first thing they mentioned in EVERY X-Box title was the graphics - these are the kind of fuckshits that keep microsoft in the console race:
'it pushes 50 fucktillion polygons a second?!?! OMG I'm SO buying one as soon as my mom gives into my incessant tantrum at toys r us and lends me the 300 FUCKING dollars'
Why the fuck aren't games any fun any more? Am I too old for them now?
Oh yeah, elec play - what's that Tommy fag got against nintendo? The first thing he mentioned about their E3 showing was that it wasn't mature anymore. Well fuck him. If it's between kiddy games and halo, call me a fucking pokemon fan. He can eat my shit - he thinks he's so fucking clever, every show he has to mention that he's some veteran of the videogame industry. EARTH TO SHITHEAD, YOU MADE SOME SHITTY MUSIC FOR EARTHWORM JIM, THAT DOESN'T MAKE YOU A SPECIALIST EAT SHIT COCK FAG.
That X-Play show is pretty funny though. I don't mind that Adam guy as much as these two assfisters. Well, that's not entirely true, that other guy on elecplay seems pretty good.
It's happening AGAIN!
:-p
I use BT on my iBook, and everytime I start using it, I get ridiculous downloads, right now I am getting 3.2KB/s, from the 100KB/s possible on my connection, (uploading somewhere between 8-12(my max)) Everybody seems to be going super fast, but I always get shafted, why!!!! (dramatically held)
I've also had BT's in the past with 5 seeders, and 12 leechers, where I was hardly even downloading anything. What gives? Mac bias?
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