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Pearl Jam Releases Video Under Creative Commons

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the popular-to-be-free dept.

minitrue writes "Pearl Jam released their first music video in quite a while under a Creative Commons license allowing anyone to "legally copy, distribute and share the clip" for noncommercial purposes. Creative Commons thinks this may be the first video produced by a major label ever to be CC-licensed. So although the file is only available as a free download via Google Video through May 24, fans can continue sharing it online themselves in perpetuity."

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  1. Won't somebody think of the lost sales? by Sathias · · Score: 4, Funny

    By releasing this for free I'm sure they would be missing out on some lost sales, maybe the RIAA will sue them.

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  2. Re:Publicity stunt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Chubaca" ??? Who or what in the hell is that? If you meant CHEWBACCA from STAR WARS, may I have your nerd membership card back? We have several Star Wars nerds on standby to beat you inefectually with foam light sabers.

  3. Brilliant! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is genius! If the concept of a video is to promote your album, why not make it free to distribute? I mean MTV isn't going to play it unless your target audience are preteens. And even then they'll only show 30 seconds of it with somebody saying something stupid like "OMG! Ponies!" in the background.

  4. Great pre-sleep video by Danathar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks! That was EXACTLY what I was looking to watch JUST before hitting the sack at night :(

    Thanks slashdot for giving me nightmares

  5. Re:Bettermen by bigbigbison · · Score: 3, Funny

    So sales are the most accurate mesurement of quality? Who knew that Kelly Clarkson and the Black Eyed Peas were so awesome?

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  6. Re:Publicity stunt by finiteSet · · Score: 2, Funny
    We have several Star Wars nerds on standby to beat you inefectually with foam light sabers.

    Foam light sabers are so 8 hours ago, everyone is using Macbooks now.
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  7. This is great and all... by Infonaut · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... but I don't think they took into account the fact that RMS doesn't like the Creative Commons. My guess is fans will avoid the video in droves for that reason alone.

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  8. Re:Harvey Danger by Firehed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Almost every album on the planet is distributed via BitTorrent. Some less legally than others, I suppose, but they're still there.

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  9. DRM by daybot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you guys nuts?! This is a Sony BMG release; by exploiting a vulnerability in the handling of each video frame, simply playing this video in any format installs a rootkit :O

  10. Afraid Google cannot handle the load? by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please tell me how there can be any point in trying to slashdot a school's server.

  11. Props to PJ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apparently the world contains a Lars and an anti-Lars. ^_^