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Linux Version of Democracy Player Released
clahey writes "The Participatory Culture Foundation just released Democracy Player 0.8.2 for Linux, the first beta version for Linux. It's a free software internet TV client with built in support for both RSS video podcasts and downloading using BitTorrent. It can even scrape web pages for videos. It's an excellent way to find great internet video. For example, once you've installed Democracy, make sure to check out The Postal Service - Such Great Heights on the Telemusicvision channel."
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
How appropriate for an internet TV appliance article.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Never let open-source programmers decide the name of their applications!
Circumcision is child abuse.
Why should I take special care to "check out the Postal Service?"
What exactly does this bring to the table? People who had or have an interest in the band probably saw the video in 2003 when it was released. It has NOTHING to do with the software being advertised.
Perhaps if the video were mentioned in the article it would be more accepta--OH WAIT! What article? All we have is a link to the home page of this project. Okay, it's open source, and it's probably cool. Fine. Submit an article, or at least a summary that doesn't suck. This awful writeup belongs more on digg than on slashdot, in my opinion.
I've been using the democracy player under OSX and Windows for the last several versions. It also frequently crashes, often taking out its config files in the process. The bitorrent bits wreak havoc on your network connection (on OSX and WinXP). The Linux version JUST became available, but given the problems with the more "mature" platforms, I'm reluctant to inflict it on my Linux laptop...
F* off you democrats! We don't need your Democracy propaganda on Slashdot.
This player is really neat! But there are other players out there.
For example, once you've read this comment, make sure you check out Nickelback's new smash hit, "All The Right Reasons" on www.supermusicchannel.com today! And once you've done that, make sure you go to www.pepsico.com for your chance to enter a FREE sweepstakes to win more Pepsi products!
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
Democracy = TV = advertising = buying things and throwing them in landfills while your society overpopulates, pollutes, and destroys all finer things for convenience. Brilliant name!
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this one is dupe
go here for the one which went to frontpage : http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_version_of_D
there are separate downloads for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora? Well, ok, there are actually two different downloads for Fedora.
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And if one is running Mandriva? Suse?
Only Women Bleed (Sex, Sharia remix)
I know its a dupe. /.ed or dugg.
Incase I was a little too subtle, it was gentle humour.
I've not seen a digg article link back to slash before and thought I would give a post like all message boards get after a being
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On running, I get a DEP prevention error. Now large sections of information are being gathered and transmitted to Microsoft!
Why do i need to install this if not buggy, dopy named application when I can get same content over YouTube.com and video.google.com within installing nothing but Firefox and Flash plugin? What am I missing here?
If I wanted to watch political satire content, I'll just read New York Times.
"Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
I don't know if I'd call this advertising. Democracy Player *seems* to be a non-commercial project. The code is open, and the development model is relatively open too. I'm not quite convinced of their openness and intentions though, since their channel guide seems to be closed. If it remains closed, it's a way for them to lock-in customers, AND producers, by building up a large database of media that no one else can put into their own products. More importantly, the channel guide URL can't be changed in the software, so users can't set it to an independent channel guide that they might prefer. They have a lot of work on their plates right now though, so I'll give them a little more time to sort this all out before I judge them too harshly :)
I don't know who decided to call it "the democracy player" since it's really just a wrapper for bitorrent and the VLC player, but it's just a poor choice of names.
The Ubuntu .deb has dependancy issues on Ubuntu Dapper Drake. dpkg complains of libboost-python1.33.0 being missing because Dapper use libboost-python1.33.1.
This is similar to another open-source endeavor called ACTLab TV, with which you can stream TV programs from multiple users in real-time. A story about ACTLab TV appeared about a year ago.
It is also similar to Songbird, the Itunes-like application that focuses primarily on enabling users to download DRM-free music from independent artists. Songbird was also covered recently.
Get computers and accessories from Linux-friendly manufacturers
Please stop making puns about the name or the state of copyright law or microsoft or government. Don't you ever get tired of making the same jokes on any article with any word vaguely related to politics?
MacroHard - Boning you in a big way! (TM)
No builds of DemocracyPlayer for Mandriva. Can't install Fedora rpm on Mandriva 2005 because of unresolvable deps wrt libstdc++...
Tried to compile from source (stable, not svn), but couldn't make heads-or-tails of the README (half-done).
Anybody have any luck with non-Debian/Fedora Distros?
l'Homme n'est Rien l'Oeuvre Tout: Gustave Flaubert to George Sand
It's pretty sad when people invest a lot of work to counter commercialism, and even choose obvious and clear names ("Democracy player", "participatoryculture.org"), and people like you still don't get it and heap sarcasm on the project.
How clearly do you need to have things spelled out for you in order for you to absorb the information? Or have you watched so many Pepsi commercials that you have just switched off completely?
The number of dependencies this thing comes with is obscene. Nice try, kids.
nice how they adeed an advertisement at the end. /. lacks neutrality.
Joy! Beautiful spark of the gods!
Democracy Player: for those who enjoy Freedom Fries
Because the closed-source flash components do not yet seem to have an available package for my AMD64-based Debian machine.Fooey
Democracy? Is this just another file sharing application?
...and you will find that of all violations in US, China is exponentially the bigger problem.
Overpopulation: China (people are murdered when they can't find another country to move with the newborn infant. Shame on China for killing the baby after it is born, leading the world in harvesting newborn organs and executed prisoner organs to sell abroard. China has no respect from the people, and deserves no honor. Anyone that honors any of China, should boycott those goods and services until the honor is self-evident.)
Landfills: US -- until we become like China in terms of land recovery and building foundation stabilization, we'll need to excavate the abandoned cool stuff we throw away (hello DEC Alpha, ol' discarded Pillsbury Doughboy and Green Giant plush toys, and ol' 8-track casettes)
Pollution: China (they don't keep anywhere near the same standards as US; who sues who in China for pollution? China isn't afraid of the people, and freely experiments on them without repentance. US is fearful of being shot if any of its tresspass is discerned by the people)
Detroys finer things for convenience: China (look at all the seized housing in China, and the people are prevented from owning their land in Allodium (fee simple) title. US, by design, respects Allodium title held by the people, the people are foreign peaceful neighbors to US when on their (Allodium/fee simple) land.
Democracy is just a government framework, not an economic one. And contrary to what some believe, I dont think Capitalism has to come with Democracy.
It seems as though proposed legislation would mandate some pretty nasty DRM be incorporated into broadcast streams. If that be the case, I suppose Democracy and the very idea of Participatory Culture will be finished in the USA.
I was wondering how long it would be before our representatives finally outlawed Democracy. Apparently, the day is at hand.
Democracy is rule by what the individual desires, not what's best for all of us -- or the environment. Of course, most of us want that big house, that big truck, that big screen TV, and a life of ease, so rapidly it becomes selfish. (I'm not too fond of capitalism either, but if self-interest is the game, the two aren't necessarily linked but one will probably lead to the other!)
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Perhaps you forgot that next Ubuntu - Dapper Drake, is not even released yet! Hey, where the hell is Vista version?!
Video encourages passive living, vegetating in front of a computer like a useless geek while life goes by. Television is the great pacifier Marx ascribed to religion, but even more convenient. Video is like a cheap drug, more effective than meth or crack, and it helps "democracies" keep their fat, quasi-functional, narrow-intelligence citizens from noticing how we're eating our world alive and dooming ourselves to be corporate slaves. In other words, all that nice boilerplate about "democracy" is as much BS as a drug dealer talking about his "humanism."
Instead of watching more fetus-brain internet video, read: Aristotle, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Nietzsche, even the Bible if it's what you dig (or have all of you converted to Judaism and Islam since GWB made Christianity synonymous with insane?). Reading is a revolutionary act. Television-watching is a shallow and conformist one.
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Are you on drugs?