Lessig, Stallman in New Documentary 110
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.
Quicktime? (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh - and anyone interested in hearing the grey album mentioned in the
bootleg anyone (Score:5, Funny)
bring in a cam-corder too while your at it
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Instructions from BillyWitchDoctor.com [ytmnd.com]
(If it doesn't work, you may be holding the Sharpie upside down.)
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Personally, I agree in. However, mp3 has Free Software tools available for it, and so does MPEG4. Lame and ffmpeg are both good pieces of software. While the mp3 format is technically proprietary, I feel that in reality the format has now been forced open by lame. When it's worth doing, I use ogg (ie when I am doing the original encode of a file
Re:Quicktime? (Score:1)
That, sir, is a matter of opinion. While I appreciate the work involved and the samples were interesting, Jay Z is devoid of any talent at all. I once read "Jay Z never writes down his lyrics". Translation - "he makes crap up on the spot". It sounds like it. Here is a Jay Z-type rap lyric of my own:
Don't do the crime
If you can't do the time
Gotta get a lime
At the 5 and dime
Listen to The
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Just because you don't have the necessary tools to appreciate something, that doesn't mean it can't be appreciated by others who understand what makes it good.
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RMS is just a whiny old hippy (Score:1, Troll)
Why?
Seriously, he's not Ghandi. He just doesn't *pay for software* That doesn't exactly make him a saint.
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.
I admire the EFF because they are trying to fix some broken laws. To th
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Re:RMS is just a whiny old hippy (Score:3, Insightful)
The GPL (especially the latest draft) has less to do with freedom than it does promoting RMS' (and by proxy the FSF) personal ideology.
Re:RMS is just a whiny old hippy (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, there's freedom and then there's freedom. It is generally not desirable that people have the freedom to take other people's freedom away, and this is what the GPL addresses which BSD does not.
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This is true. RMS' focus is freedom for users, not freedom for developers.
Re:RMS is just a whiny old hippy (Score:2)
>demanding was when he created the GPL.
Just because someone is an "idealist" doesn't mean they deserve praise automatically. Sometimes people's ideal worlds are a horrible place to live. Communism is generally considered to be one of those ideals...
I *do* understand Stallman's ideas, it is you who do not. You are confusing his "ideals" with the general will of the open source community. Stallman tends to favor th
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Re:RMS is just a whiny old hippy (Score:5, Informative)
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.
WTF? (Score:3, Insightful)
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Also, saying people shouldn't care about the difference, is the same as saying people shouldn't care about the difference in Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Rights (okay, I overreacted there
Re:WTF? (Score:1)
No.
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Because they care so little about his point that they can't see it.
Re:RMS is just a whiny old hippy (Score:2)
Even those that don't have a password or have ID to get into the building.
He's had some brilliant ideas but we don't have to follow him on every issue - and to the newbies out there, neither he nor the gnu team wrote linux. The LiGnuX name and the later gnu/linux name were efforts to make people aware of gnu project. The only "gnu/linux" is "debian gnu/linux" because debian get to choose the name and not someone imposing MIT
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So as programs become more extendable, the less Stallman's reasoning make sense, the less his goals outweight the need
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It's like saying, what if I don't want to just change the wheels? What if I want to replace the frame? What do I do then?
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The FS people are not pragmatists. This is the first thing you probably don't understand (you seem like a hardcore pragmatist yourself). The movement is about the idea that software (and other forms of abs
RMS says charge as much as you can (Score:1)
Richard Stallman encourages seeking payment [gnu.org] for software.
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Re:LESSI G! (Score:2)
Is that Ali G's younger sister?
Gads (Score:4, Funny)
I think I'll wait until this one comes out on video....I for one don't relish being cooped up in theater, wedged shoulder-to-shoulder, with the hygiene-challenged social misfits who would find a documentary of Richard Stallman interesting.
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Ya, I can think of a few people in Washington that have.
Re:No sir! (Score:5, Insightful)
That "fat sweaty retard" made $12,000,000 making fun of the government?? What is retarded about that?
As for the movie, yup, it was over the top, but so what? (And yes I called it a movie not a documentary on purpose!) The pro-war-on-terror bullshit and rhetoric that spews from Washington is just as over the top, and has made Dick Cheney and friends far more money, at the expense of the American public both in dollars and in lives.
Moore made a movie, that's what he does for a living, that's no secret. That it raised some important questions is all the better. The worst thing anyone can say about it is that its been marketed as a genuine documentary; but on some level I find it that its part of the parody -- like "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" being dressed up as a news show.
That some people take it as the 'gospel truth' is unfortunate, but even that is far less damaging to America than beleiving what the governments been telling you.
People don't watch "serious documentaries" in America. Perhaps the *best* way to generate awareness that something is wrong is with comedy, parody, and over the top nonsense -- at least its entertaining enough that lots of people will watch it, and if people talk about it, or start having conversations about just what was true what wasn't, and just how over the top it was, it will accomplish far more than some dry documentary presented on the history channel that nobody watched and nobody talks about ever has.
Re:No sir! (Score:2)
WTF does that mean for people? Do we trust Hollywood to tell the truth more than the media...
HAHAHAHAHHAHA, I can't believe I just wrote that.
Re:Gads (Score:5, Insightful)
Haliburton comes to mind easily.... Add A few dozen politicians, just about anyone in the "defense" industry.....
If only the MPAA sued somehow (Score:2)
Hey editors... (Score:4, Informative)
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 [wikipedia.org]Richard Stallman [wikipedia.org]
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lets pirate this movie (Score:4, Funny)
Also, what's with the free Zarathustra thing at the beginning of the trailer? What does Neitzsche have to do with intellectual property rights?
Re:lets pirate this movie (Score:5, Informative)
What does Neitzsche have to do with intellectual property rights?
His work is in the public domain.
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Relevance of Neitzsche Re:lets pirate this movie (Score:2)
What doesn't destroy intellectual property rights makes them stronger.
Like, say, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use [wikipedia.org].
GODDAMIT! (Score:1, Funny)
And what's that burning smell?
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Request (Score:3, Informative)
Please link Danger Mouse [dangermouse.org] correctly.
Thanks
NYT has reviewed it (Score:4, Informative)
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?
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.
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In other words, copyright law is used to restrict the freedom to innovate. This is the same as those who say we must balance the right to privacy with national security. here again, using national security to restrict our rights. So, to those of you who insist that IP law promotes innovation, I say, 'You're full of it.' It promotes nothing of the kind.
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I saw the movie (Score:1)
The movie has it's drawbacks. Production is very low budget, and theater setup is worse (they show it from vhs). There's not much eye candy as the movie is mostly interviews with some public domain clips mixed in.
But there are positive sides that easily outweight the negatives. Lessig, RMS, bunnie and others present intersting, inteligent, well thought out discussion of t
Embedded video crap (Score:2)
Thank you! I'm so tired of having to hit "view source" just to get an URL for some proprietarily-encoded video.
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Hmmmm.... (Score:1)
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I would also like to add that copyrights under the Statute of Anne were given out as political favors and worked a lot like trade guilds. The trade guilds have long been abolished because they retarded progress and kept prices artificially high. However, copyrights have remained, even though they infringe on people's rights on top of the negative monopoly effects of any trade cartel.
DJ Dangermouse (Score:2, Informative)
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 gi
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Free Culture at NYU? (Score:2)
"Free Culture at NYU presents:
ALTERNATIVE FREEDOM"
Yet tix range from $6.50 to $9.00 per. I guess that would be Free-as-in-speech, not Free-as-in-beer, Culture at NYU.
If anyone local is going, I'll be getting a pint or two at Bleecker Bar (Bleecker & Lafayette) and then walking over, the box office opens at 8:30 for the 9:00 showing tonight.
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But if you're in the neighborhood, a few pints rarely kills anyone...
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Email your theatres (Score:3)
here [cineplex.com]
This type of movie only get's shown if there is a demand for it.
isn't it cynical? (Score:1)
Better than Revolution OS? (Score:2)
Re:Sheep Shears (Score:1, Funny)
P.S. Parent is not offtopic. Maybe a little trollish, but not offtopic.
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What if it's proven that statistically, closed source is more secure, more innovative, cheaper etc than open source. Then the Open Source Initiative is out of arguments as to why open source is a good idea. The FSF, on the other hand, can keep using the same arguments they are now.
Of course, if you disagree with t
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For some, that's a worthwhile goal. However that's never been the purpose behind OSS.
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Bullshit. It wasn't true when RMS wrote the GNU Manifesto [gnu.org], and it isn't true now [gnu.org].
since it would all be freely available.
Again, that is a steaming pile of non sequitur [wikipedia.org] crap. Reality dictates that people are paid to work on free software. Deal with it.
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Yes but... (Score:1)