Lessig, Stallman in New Documentary

Alternative Freedom is a documentary on intellectual property rights featuring lots of interviews with folks like Stallman and Lessig, as well as people like DJ Danger Mouse (creator of the Grey Album). They have a trailer available, but if you're in NYC the movie is now showing. If anyone manages to go, I'd love to see some real reviews of it.

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Hey editors...

[SpectreHiro]

I know y'all like to leave the submissions relatively untouched, but...

Lessing?

In the freaking headline?

fer[sic] christ's sake...

I also realize this is a tech site, and 90% of people here are familiar with the gentlemen in question, but it'd be nice to reference their full names at some point in the blurb.

Lawrence Lessig
Richard Stallman

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[Anonymous Coward]

Alternative Freedom is a documentary on intellectual property rights featuring lots of interviews with folks like Stallman and Lessig, as well as people like DJ Danger Mouse

Please link Danger Mouse correctly.

Thanks

Re:lets pirate this movie

[OECD]

What does Neitzsche have to do with intellectual property rights?

His work is in the public domain.

Re:Quicktime?

[stinerman]

RMS usually prefers Ogg Theora. All the stuff on audio-video.gnu.org is in that format.

NYT has reviewed it

[joshdick]

"If anyone manages to go, I'd love to see some real reviews of it."

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v _id=345768

Putting aside your personal feelings on copyright, that review is enough to make me want to stay away from it. As the review points out, I would be better served by reading Lessig's blog, among others.

DJ Dangermouse

[El Nombre]

FYI, DJ Dangermouse is one half of Gnarls Barkley (along with Cee-Lo), the band who reached UK's #1 chart spot with a download only single "Crazy". See the slashdot story here: http://slashdot.org/articles/06/04/02/2232226.shtm l

Most people here made fun of their names and assumed they are trash. They're worth checking out however, St. Elsewhere, their debut album, just leaked and should be released soon. Dangermouse is a talented guy.

And for those who haven't heard the Grey Album, I'd suggest giving it a listen too. (For those who don't know its a mix of the Beatles' White Album, and Jay-Z's Black Album.

Re:RMS is just a whiny old hippy

[squiggleslash]

Seriously, he's not Ghandi. He just doesn't *pay for software* That doesn't exactly make him a saint.

Perhaps if you understood his principles, you might understand why other people admire them. RMS is perfectly happy to pay for software, he just wants the freedom to be able to change and redistribute that software to anyone who needs it and his changes to it.

It's about being able to help one's fellow man, and about avoiding software that prevents that. That's something to be admired, especially when you consider how impractical what RMS was demanding was when he created the GPL.

Re:RMS is just a whiny old hippy

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Seriously, he's not Ghandi. He just doesn't *pay for software* That doesn't exactly make him a saint.

He pays for software with his time. He created GCC - without it the vast majority of software you use would not be possible.

I like open source too, but these are not the grand principles he makes them out to be. It's just a way of distributing *computer software*, which isn't that important in the grand scheme of things. Computers in general are not a major source of tyranny in the world.

1) Stallman has got nothing to do with Open Source.

2) Computer software is the aspect of life where Stallman feels he can make a difference. And he does - rather then bitching about other achievements.

but by refusing to use *any* software that is commercial, you aren't helping anyone. Certainly not developers.

Here you display a complete lack of understanding for Stallman's beliefs. He isn't trying to help developers. He's trying to help users.

In short your post is an ill-informed troll. There are better anti-rms trolls out there. Please read up on them before posting here again.