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Democracy Player Is Dead, Long Live Miro
MrSpin writes "Democracy Player has relaunched today as Miro. Developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation, Miro aims to make online video "as easy as watching TV", while at the same time ensuring that the new medium remains accessible to everyone, through its support for open standards. The open-source application combines a media player and library, content guide, video search engine, as well as podcast and BitTorrent clients. But why the name change? According to last100, who have published a full review and guide to Miro: "When Democracy Player launched back in February 2006, the feedback received was that the name evoked different, yet equally negative responses. For many Americans it conjured up an image of yet another left wing media project, and to the rest of the world it was, rather bizarrely, being associated with the policies of the Bush administration. In contrast, the new name is purposely abstract.""
Well, it *IS* based on iTunes, after all.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
For the good of the world? Sorry but I do not work my butt off for you or anyone else. Hell I generally really dislike most people in the world, I sure as hell will not help support them because I am better than them at something. Communism and other ideas like it are fantasies. They sound real good and look very nice on paper, but they will NOT work in the real world. As you said the places that have even attempted it couldn't even get to full communism, how the hell do you expect people to make it work once they get there if no one can even get there? The whole notion is so fundamentally flawed that it will not happen and will continue to only be a fantasy in the minds of the inept and hopelessly idiotic, though admittedly sometimes good natured, people.