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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Quicktime?

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

From TFL

Viewing the trailer requires Quicktime. If your browser does not support embedded files you can dowload the .mov directly here.

Whoa! RMS is going to crack it!

It falls to me to tell them they are doing so, that they with their own actions are giving certain large companies more power. When you send someone a ".doc' file, a "Word' file, or an audio or video file in RealPlayer or Quicktime format, you are actually pressuring someone to give up their freedom. Perhaps because I constantly have to bring this up, people believe I don't have a sense of proportion.

Sometimes people take for granted that I will participate in those activities with them. Thus, when I webcast a speech, I have to ask which format it is going to be webcast in. I am not going to go along with a webcast of my speech about freedom that you have to give up your freedom in order to hear or watch. Once I put my coat over a camera before giving my speech, when I learned it was webcasting in RealPlayer format. [emph mine]

Note - I am not making fun of RMS here - I greatly admire his principals even if I am too lazy to always follow them myself.

Oh - and anyone interested in hearing the grey album mentioned in the /. summary, a torrent. It is an amazing album.

Re:DJ Dangermouse

[jb.hl.com]

I'd also mention that he did a lot/most of the production work on Gorillaz' last album, Demon Days. (EMI, apparently, shat themselves when they heard of Gorillaz' choice, as they were the ones who sued Danger Mouse over the Beatles sampling...)