interactive zombie movie
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Monday, 26 October 2009
Me myself and irene
another great example of split personality is the film me myself and irene, with charlie/hank played by jim carey, this is the sort of character i want for my 20 second anti-piracy advert.
comparison of adverts
this is a comparison advert that was used as a pilot for people to watch, compare and evaluate the different adverts and which one had the biggest effect on its audience
Sunday, 25 October 2009
What is File Sharing?
File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, mp3 and digital videos. File sharing in computer networking refers to copying files from one computer to another using a live network connection. Peer to peer (P2P) filesharing is the most popular form of swapping files.
While file sharing is not of itself illegal, the increasing popularity of the mp3 music format in the late 1990s led to the release and growth of Napster and other software that, while designed simply to aid in the sharing of electronic files, in practice led to a huge growth in illegal file sharing: the sharing of copyright protected files without permission.
While file sharing is not of itself illegal, the increasing popularity of the mp3 music format in the late 1990s led to the release and growth of Napster and other software that, while designed simply to aid in the sharing of electronic files, in practice led to a huge growth in illegal file sharing: the sharing of copyright protected files without permission.
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Human Joysticks [NewsBreaker Live - interactive cinema game]
msnbc.com presents the worldwide premiere of interactive crowd gaming in movie theaters. Captured opening weekend of Spider Man 3 in Los Angeles in the summer of 2007
Late Fragment
This is an innovative interactive feature film where the viewer can decide the trajectory of the film by clicking on characters and exploring different scenes. This is quintessential new cinema.
PRP Idea 1
The usage of interactivity in contempary Cinema, the effect it has on a audience and story? When is it no longer a film and becomes a interactive game,
This idea came about due to the growing use of interactivity in cinema since 2007, the problem is:
Interactive cinema
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Interactive cinema tries to give the audience an active role in the showing of movies. The movie Kinoautomat by Czechoslovakian director Raduz Cincera presented in the Czech Pavilion in Expo '67 in Montreal is considered to be the first cinema-like interactive movie. The availability of computers for the display of interactive video has made it easier to create interactive movies.
Another newer definition of interactive cinema is a video game which is a hybrid between participation and viewing, giving the player - or viewer, as it were - a strong amount of control in the characters' decisions. A prominent pioneer of such a technique is the successful Hideo Kojima, whose gameplay often takes a priority to the storyline and long cutscenes. His game Policenauts, a point and click adventure game which has shootout sequences (that make use of the lightgun peripheral on the Sega Saturn version of the game), has a subtitle which reads "Interactive cinema" on the cover art of all versions of said game, which is an early example of a prominent game developer labelling their game as such. A recent incarnation of an idea similar to this one is Fahrenheit, (censored version released in US and Canada as "Indigo Prophecy") a game dubbed as "interactive cinema" by its France-based developer, Quantic Dream.
2007 saw the release of North America's first interactive motion picture, the Canadian-produced Late Fragment. [1]
Other, earlier examples include Quantum Gate, Psychic Detective, The Dark Eye, The Wrong Side of Town, Johnny Mnemonic, Uncompressed, The Vortex, The X-Files Game, The Gabriel Knight Series and The Wing Commander Series. All of which date from the early to late 1990's.
-Is digital technology effecting jobs in the industry?
Now due to digital technology, are jobs being loss in the industry. Such as Stunt Experts are being used less due to digital effects and with James Camerons 'Avatar' where '75% of the Film is CGI and didnt use cameras due to Motion Sensor Pads' will this decrease the jobs.
(BBC.com,James Cameron Interview)
This idea came about due to the growing use of interactivity in cinema since 2007, the problem is:
Interactive cinema
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Interactive cinema tries to give the audience an active role in the showing of movies. The movie Kinoautomat by Czechoslovakian director Raduz Cincera presented in the Czech Pavilion in Expo '67 in Montreal is considered to be the first cinema-like interactive movie. The availability of computers for the display of interactive video has made it easier to create interactive movies.
Another newer definition of interactive cinema is a video game which is a hybrid between participation and viewing, giving the player - or viewer, as it were - a strong amount of control in the characters' decisions. A prominent pioneer of such a technique is the successful Hideo Kojima, whose gameplay often takes a priority to the storyline and long cutscenes. His game Policenauts, a point and click adventure game which has shootout sequences (that make use of the lightgun peripheral on the Sega Saturn version of the game), has a subtitle which reads "Interactive cinema" on the cover art of all versions of said game, which is an early example of a prominent game developer labelling their game as such. A recent incarnation of an idea similar to this one is Fahrenheit, (censored version released in US and Canada as "Indigo Prophecy") a game dubbed as "interactive cinema" by its France-based developer, Quantic Dream.
2007 saw the release of North America's first interactive motion picture, the Canadian-produced Late Fragment. [1]
Other, earlier examples include Quantum Gate, Psychic Detective, The Dark Eye, The Wrong Side of Town, Johnny Mnemonic, Uncompressed, The Vortex, The X-Files Game, The Gabriel Knight Series and The Wing Commander Series. All of which date from the early to late 1990's.
-Is digital technology effecting jobs in the industry?
Now due to digital technology, are jobs being loss in the industry. Such as Stunt Experts are being used less due to digital effects and with James Camerons 'Avatar' where '75% of the Film is CGI and didnt use cameras due to Motion Sensor Pads' will this decrease the jobs.
(BBC.com,James Cameron Interview)
Right or Wrong? - Making moral decisions
Coronet educational film... being from 1951 it has this cool Film Noir feal to it... and of course in the 50's the world was better... Even though the Film is about a moral delemour
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Ideas for my advert
The brief for the advert i need to make states that it cannot be longer than 20 seconds. With this in mind, i want my ad to be as simple as possible in its style and also simple in the way in which its gets the message of file sharing being illegal across. After doing some brainstorming, I came up with a few ideas that could follow the a Anti-Piracy dverts, and also a couple others:
Idea 1
is quite a basic idea of one man in a concellors office, talking with his concellor about his past experiences and his choices in his life, how he ended up going to prison after ignoring warning from the government that he should stop illegally downloading, and how he tried to get something for free and it destroyed his life.
Idea 2
since the advert only had to be 20 seconds long, i wanted to have a basic but interesting advert, the idea consisted of one guy finding a website where he can illegal download films for free, he has a conversation within his conscious with the voices of a angel ( his rightious side) and the voice of a devil ( his sinful side)
something similar to this:
Idea 1
is quite a basic idea of one man in a concellors office, talking with his concellor about his past experiences and his choices in his life, how he ended up going to prison after ignoring warning from the government that he should stop illegally downloading, and how he tried to get something for free and it destroyed his life.
Idea 2
since the advert only had to be 20 seconds long, i wanted to have a basic but interesting advert, the idea consisted of one guy finding a website where he can illegal download films for free, he has a conversation within his conscious with the voices of a angel ( his rightious side) and the voice of a devil ( his sinful side)
something similar to this:
Sean Michaels, 'the Guardian' 4.08.09
Music companies need to stop resisting and accept that illegal downloading is a fact of 21st-century life, according to a new study by music rights holders. Researchers analysed the downloading of Radiohead's In Rainbows – which was made freely available through an official website - and found that a majority of fans still pirated the music.
"These non-traditional venues are stubbornly entrenched, incredibly popular and will never go away," said Eric Garland, co-author of the study by the MCPS-PRS Alliance and Big Champagne, an online media measurement company. Speaking to the Financial Times, he explained, "It's time to stop swimming against the tide of what people want".
Not only did many more fans illegally download the album than those who bought it in shops, they downloaded it from illegal P2P and torrent sites like Pirate Bay than from the official Radiohead site.
"Even when the price approaches zero," reads the report, "people are more likely to act habitually (say, using Pirate Bay) than to break their habit (say, visiting www.InRainbows.com)." While Radiohead are a beloved band, an illegal website like Pirate Bay may still be "a powerful brand with a sterling reputation in the minds of millions of young music fans".
Researchers pointed out that despite the illegal downloads, In Rainbows was a success – CD versions were bestsellers and Radiohead tours continue to sell out. Garland described the In Rainbows release as "stunt marketing at its best".
"The expectation among rights holders is that in order to create a success story, you must reduce the rate of piracy," Garland said. "We've found that is not the case."
The authors of the study argue that music rights holders need to find "new ways" and "new places" to generate income from their music, rather than chasing illegal downloads – for example, licensing agreements with YouTube or legal peer-to-peer websites. In other words, they ought to do the musical equivalent of giving away free ice-cream and selling advertising on the cones.
In fact, that's an idea we hope the ice-cream industry takes advantage of as well.
"These non-traditional venues are stubbornly entrenched, incredibly popular and will never go away," said Eric Garland, co-author of the study by the MCPS-PRS Alliance and Big Champagne, an online media measurement company. Speaking to the Financial Times, he explained, "It's time to stop swimming against the tide of what people want".
Not only did many more fans illegally download the album than those who bought it in shops, they downloaded it from illegal P2P and torrent sites like Pirate Bay than from the official Radiohead site.
"Even when the price approaches zero," reads the report, "people are more likely to act habitually (say, using Pirate Bay) than to break their habit (say, visiting www.InRainbows.com)." While Radiohead are a beloved band, an illegal website like Pirate Bay may still be "a powerful brand with a sterling reputation in the minds of millions of young music fans".
Researchers pointed out that despite the illegal downloads, In Rainbows was a success – CD versions were bestsellers and Radiohead tours continue to sell out. Garland described the In Rainbows release as "stunt marketing at its best".
"The expectation among rights holders is that in order to create a success story, you must reduce the rate of piracy," Garland said. "We've found that is not the case."
The authors of the study argue that music rights holders need to find "new ways" and "new places" to generate income from their music, rather than chasing illegal downloads – for example, licensing agreements with YouTube or legal peer-to-peer websites. In other words, they ought to do the musical equivalent of giving away free ice-cream and selling advertising on the cones.
In fact, that's an idea we hope the ice-cream industry takes advantage of as well.
Illegal Downloading Quotes
“Introducing measures such as disconnection at the instigation of the Secretary of State will sidestep proper scrutiny, likely breach fundamental human rights and result in innocent people being disconnected or, worse, prosecuted,” said TalkTalk, an internet service provider, in a statement.
“What’s more, they will not work. Disconnecting alleged offenders will be futile given that it is relatively easy for determined filesharers to mask their identity or their activity to avoid detection.”
The Open Rights Group, which campaigns for internet freedom, warned that the suspension of internet access would “restrict people’s fundamental right to freedom of expression”.
“It would also fly in the face of the government’s policy of universal broadband access,” said Jim Killock, the group’s executive director. “It smacks of a knee-jerk reaction at a time when copyright infringement is reducing and online revenues are increasing.”
The government’s new proposals come just days after Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, met David Geffen, the founder of Asylum Records and the man who set up DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg, at a private dinner when on holiday in Corfu.
Lord Mandelson is keen to adopt a tougher approach to internet piracy, estimated to cost the movie industry alone around £1.4 billion a year.
Seven million people – one in 12 of the population – regularly download music and films illicitly.
A spokesperson for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said there was no discussion of online piracy when Lord Mandelson met Geffen and there is no connection between that meeting and the Government’s new proposals on illegal filesharing.
“What’s more, they will not work. Disconnecting alleged offenders will be futile given that it is relatively easy for determined filesharers to mask their identity or their activity to avoid detection.”
The Open Rights Group, which campaigns for internet freedom, warned that the suspension of internet access would “restrict people’s fundamental right to freedom of expression”.
“It would also fly in the face of the government’s policy of universal broadband access,” said Jim Killock, the group’s executive director. “It smacks of a knee-jerk reaction at a time when copyright infringement is reducing and online revenues are increasing.”
The government’s new proposals come just days after Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, met David Geffen, the founder of Asylum Records and the man who set up DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg, at a private dinner when on holiday in Corfu.
Lord Mandelson is keen to adopt a tougher approach to internet piracy, estimated to cost the movie industry alone around £1.4 billion a year.
Seven million people – one in 12 of the population – regularly download music and films illicitly.
A spokesperson for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said there was no discussion of online piracy when Lord Mandelson met Geffen and there is no connection between that meeting and the Government’s new proposals on illegal filesharing.
Copyright and Trade Acts
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended by the Copyright and Trade Marks (Offences and Enforcement) Act 2002, currently protects copyrighted materials. People who distribute and download copyrighted recordings without permission face civil actions for potentially thousands of pounds of damages. Make no mistake: British copyright law is needlessly strict because it was born in an age that could not have envisaged the challenges of the internet. A recent survey of consumer rights' groups found that the UK was the least consumer-friendly of 16 countries examined in the report. There is, for example, no general "fair use" exception.
Illegal downloading can also constitute a criminal offence if the downloader distributes the material. Infringement of piracy and bootlegging laws can lead to hefty fines and even imprisonment if someone is caught making copies for the purpose of selling or hiring them to others.
The penalties for copyright offences depend on seriousness, but at the higher end of the scale it can lead to an appearance before a magistrate where the sanction for distributing unauthorised files is a fine of up to £5,000 or six months' imprisonment. The worst cases may be sent to the Crown Court, which has the power to impose an unlimited fine and up to 10 years' imprisonment.
Those downloaders who can show that all their music and films copied from the internet are only for personal use will escape the full weight of the criminal law. But that does not mean personal use downloading is legal. Taking a song or film without paying for it is a breach of copyright. The real issue here is detection and the steps the industries are taking to enforce their members' rights. In a recent development, the British Phonographic Industry has started working with big internet service providers such as Virgin. Thanks to the ISPs' access to IP addresses, the BPI and the ISPs can contact individuals suspected of illegal downloading. Stern letters have been sent which issue threats of disconnection if the file sharing is not discontinued. The BPI has even threatened file-sharers with a court appearance.
But as ever with rapid internet developments, it is America which is leading the way in copyright prosecution. In some US states the online infringement of copyrighted music can be punished by up to three years' jail and £150,000 in fines. Repeat offenders can be imprisoned for up to six years. Individuals may be held civilly liable – regardless of whether the activity is for profit – for actual damages or lost profits, or for statutory damages up to £90,000 per infringed copyright. In the USA the industry is putting fake tracks on file-sharing networks to track down your IP.
Bob May, a British PR, found out the hard way how seriously record companies are taking the issue. While copying an unreleased album for work, he accidently left a file-sharing site open on his computer. It was only a few minutes before he realised his mistake but in that time a track had already been downloaded. "A couple of weeks later, on Christmas Day, I got a phone call from a man employed by the record company who wanted to know how the song had been leaked. He called every day for a week and insisted on meeting," May explains. "Two guys in long black coats turned up at my work, trying to intimidate me. We resolved it, but they said if it happened again, they'd use the full force of the law."
But can the iron-fist approach really stop us doing a little bit of illicit downloading? The mind-boggling scope of what is freely available on the internet has brought temptation into the home. Many of us have got used to not paying for our music and films and there is a discernible cultural resistance to making us pay for something that has been has been free for years. The internet has turned us into a nation of freeloaders. When record companies try to tell us we are no better than shoplifters, we don't believe them. You wouldn't go into a record shop and run off with a bag of CDs, the executives complain. But we might if the record or DVD store had been giving away free stuff for years and then suddenly started charging us for it.
And album sales aren't haemorrhaging in the doom-mongering way we have been led to believe. Single sales have dropped, but 28 million more albums were sold last year than a decade ago, including digital sales. Live performances, which account for more than half of the industry's profits, are unaffected by downloads – and may even be boosted by the opportunity they offer for young people on tight budgets to sample the music they might like to hear at a concert. These are not arguments embraced by the music or film industries, which retort that only a small proportion of musicians and film-workers make a comfortable living. Their industries should be treated like other businesses, where not paying for a product or service is not tolerated. Geoff Taylor, the Chief Executive of the BPI, says: "There is not an acceptable level of file-sharing. Musicians need to be paid like everyone else."
While this debate has run back and forth for years, the Government has done little more than keep a watching brief, neither coming to the rescue of the music and film business by enforcing sanctions against illegal downloaders nor offering an amnesty to the guilty. That changed last month with a report from Digital Britain, an organisation set up by the Government to ensure that the nation exploits the internet to its full economic capacity. Launched last year, its aim was to establish a pattern for digital growth in the UK economy.
One of the biggest challenges Digital Britain had to look at was how to balance the interests of the internet user and the industries. The Government now promises to crack down on illegal file-sharing and supports sending warning letters to those making illegal downloads of music and films. Ofcom will also be allowed to release the identities of serial infringers to make it easier for music and film companies to sue them. Lord Carter, the communications minister, said: "We think online piracy is wrong. Creative companies, rights owners and individuals have a right to protection. We wish to put in place a legal framework that provides those protections."
The ISPs are caught in the middle. They protest that it is not their job to police the internet and cutting off customers is bad for business. Nor do they want to be responsible for criminalising 15-year-olds for downloading songs in their bedrooms.
The truth is, if you want to copy music for free without fear of legal action, trawl the junk shops for technology launched in the 1970s as the greatest leap in integrated hi-fi entertainment.
Illegal downloading can also constitute a criminal offence if the downloader distributes the material. Infringement of piracy and bootlegging laws can lead to hefty fines and even imprisonment if someone is caught making copies for the purpose of selling or hiring them to others.
The penalties for copyright offences depend on seriousness, but at the higher end of the scale it can lead to an appearance before a magistrate where the sanction for distributing unauthorised files is a fine of up to £5,000 or six months' imprisonment. The worst cases may be sent to the Crown Court, which has the power to impose an unlimited fine and up to 10 years' imprisonment.
Those downloaders who can show that all their music and films copied from the internet are only for personal use will escape the full weight of the criminal law. But that does not mean personal use downloading is legal. Taking a song or film without paying for it is a breach of copyright. The real issue here is detection and the steps the industries are taking to enforce their members' rights. In a recent development, the British Phonographic Industry has started working with big internet service providers such as Virgin. Thanks to the ISPs' access to IP addresses, the BPI and the ISPs can contact individuals suspected of illegal downloading. Stern letters have been sent which issue threats of disconnection if the file sharing is not discontinued. The BPI has even threatened file-sharers with a court appearance.
But as ever with rapid internet developments, it is America which is leading the way in copyright prosecution. In some US states the online infringement of copyrighted music can be punished by up to three years' jail and £150,000 in fines. Repeat offenders can be imprisoned for up to six years. Individuals may be held civilly liable – regardless of whether the activity is for profit – for actual damages or lost profits, or for statutory damages up to £90,000 per infringed copyright. In the USA the industry is putting fake tracks on file-sharing networks to track down your IP.
Bob May, a British PR, found out the hard way how seriously record companies are taking the issue. While copying an unreleased album for work, he accidently left a file-sharing site open on his computer. It was only a few minutes before he realised his mistake but in that time a track had already been downloaded. "A couple of weeks later, on Christmas Day, I got a phone call from a man employed by the record company who wanted to know how the song had been leaked. He called every day for a week and insisted on meeting," May explains. "Two guys in long black coats turned up at my work, trying to intimidate me. We resolved it, but they said if it happened again, they'd use the full force of the law."
But can the iron-fist approach really stop us doing a little bit of illicit downloading? The mind-boggling scope of what is freely available on the internet has brought temptation into the home. Many of us have got used to not paying for our music and films and there is a discernible cultural resistance to making us pay for something that has been has been free for years. The internet has turned us into a nation of freeloaders. When record companies try to tell us we are no better than shoplifters, we don't believe them. You wouldn't go into a record shop and run off with a bag of CDs, the executives complain. But we might if the record or DVD store had been giving away free stuff for years and then suddenly started charging us for it.
And album sales aren't haemorrhaging in the doom-mongering way we have been led to believe. Single sales have dropped, but 28 million more albums were sold last year than a decade ago, including digital sales. Live performances, which account for more than half of the industry's profits, are unaffected by downloads – and may even be boosted by the opportunity they offer for young people on tight budgets to sample the music they might like to hear at a concert. These are not arguments embraced by the music or film industries, which retort that only a small proportion of musicians and film-workers make a comfortable living. Their industries should be treated like other businesses, where not paying for a product or service is not tolerated. Geoff Taylor, the Chief Executive of the BPI, says: "There is not an acceptable level of file-sharing. Musicians need to be paid like everyone else."
While this debate has run back and forth for years, the Government has done little more than keep a watching brief, neither coming to the rescue of the music and film business by enforcing sanctions against illegal downloaders nor offering an amnesty to the guilty. That changed last month with a report from Digital Britain, an organisation set up by the Government to ensure that the nation exploits the internet to its full economic capacity. Launched last year, its aim was to establish a pattern for digital growth in the UK economy.
One of the biggest challenges Digital Britain had to look at was how to balance the interests of the internet user and the industries. The Government now promises to crack down on illegal file-sharing and supports sending warning letters to those making illegal downloads of music and films. Ofcom will also be allowed to release the identities of serial infringers to make it easier for music and film companies to sue them. Lord Carter, the communications minister, said: "We think online piracy is wrong. Creative companies, rights owners and individuals have a right to protection. We wish to put in place a legal framework that provides those protections."
The ISPs are caught in the middle. They protest that it is not their job to police the internet and cutting off customers is bad for business. Nor do they want to be responsible for criminalising 15-year-olds for downloading songs in their bedrooms.
The truth is, if you want to copy music for free without fear of legal action, trawl the junk shops for technology launched in the 1970s as the greatest leap in integrated hi-fi entertainment.
Illegal downloading: What happens if you're caught?
Illegal downloading in the UK
Whether it's swapping songs or swiping movies, almost every internet user has been tempted by the huge amount of free entertainment online. So what's the worst that could happen if you do fill your hard drive with illegal spoils?
"I remember how chuffed I was when I discovered I could use my Panasonic music centre to tape my mates' vinyl record collections. On just two C120s I recorded the Hawkwind back catalogue and still had space to tack on the best of X-ray Spex (1979 was a musically-confusing year). The music centre was the first mass-produced legal downloader and millions of us created vast vaults of tapes of our favourite bands. I don't remember any heavies from the record industry turning up on my doorstep to threaten me with prosecution for illegal taping. And I don't recall any sanctimonious hectoring about stealing from the mouths of starving artists. They don't make music centres any more. But they do send the men in black round if you try to avoid paying for your albums." - Robert Verkaik, Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Illegal downloading in the UK
Illegal downloading in the UK has become a massive threat to the music and film industries. In 1997, 78 million singles were sold in the UK; last year, it was just 8.6m. It is estimated that half the population has engaged in some sort of nefarious downloading in the last five years.
Whether it's swapping songs or swiping movies, almost every internet user has been tempted by the huge amount of free entertainment online. So what's the worst that could happen if you do fill your hard drive with illegal spoils?
"I remember how chuffed I was when I discovered I could use my Panasonic music centre to tape my mates' vinyl record collections. On just two C120s I recorded the Hawkwind back catalogue and still had space to tack on the best of X-ray Spex (1979 was a musically-confusing year). The music centre was the first mass-produced legal downloader and millions of us created vast vaults of tapes of our favourite bands. I don't remember any heavies from the record industry turning up on my doorstep to threaten me with prosecution for illegal taping. And I don't recall any sanctimonious hectoring about stealing from the mouths of starving artists. They don't make music centres any more. But they do send the men in black round if you try to avoid paying for your albums." - Robert Verkaik, Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Illegal downloading in the UK
Illegal downloading in the UK has become a massive threat to the music and film industries. In 1997, 78 million singles were sold in the UK; last year, it was just 8.6m. It is estimated that half the population has engaged in some sort of nefarious downloading in the last five years.
Monday, 19 October 2009
Reading Material
Benkler, The Wealth of Networks, 3.
Bauwens, “Peer to Peer and Human Evolution,” Integral Visioning, http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2ptheory1.
Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (New York: Addison Wesley, 1993).
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, “A Letter to the Commons,” in In the Shade of the Commons: Towards a Culture of Open Networks, ed. Lipika Bansai, Paul Keller, and Geert Lovink (Amsterdam: The Waag Society, 2006).
See Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (New York: Penguin, 2004).
Bauwens, “Peer to Peer and Human Evolution,” Integral Visioning, http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2ptheory1.
Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (New York: Addison Wesley, 1993).
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, “A Letter to the Commons,” in In the Shade of the Commons: Towards a Culture of Open Networks, ed. Lipika Bansai, Paul Keller, and Geert Lovink (Amsterdam: The Waag Society, 2006).
See Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (New York: Penguin, 2004).
Legal threats against The Pirate Bay
Legal threats against The Pirate Bay
Microsoft: email (we get tons of these)
Mono Music: email (swedish)
DreamWorks: email our response
EA: email our response
Uppsala universitet: emails our response mail exchange back and forth final mail (they also called the phone# in whois) (swedish)
ADV Films: email our response
Sublimal Sounds: email our response 2nd mail and response
SEGA: email our response 2nd mail 3rd mail and response
Sveriges Radio: email our response (swedish)
Peter Pehrson - enya.com / Warner Music: email our response
Apple: email our response
White Stripes / WEB SHERIFF: email our response 2nd mail and response our fax (invoice) 3rd mail attached document We tell Faxxsheriff about our new site 4th mail our response
Warner Bros / Billy Corgan / GrayZone Inc: email our response
Warner Bros / Disturbed / GrayZone Inc: email our response 2nd email and response
iRacing: letter (yes, they sent us a PDF) our response (the actual response was a 1MB BMP file, but well...)
Andrew Rabbitt / Rabbit Valley Comics: email our response 2nd email
Linotype: postal mail (1 2) our response (1 2)
Prophecy House: email and our response (he also called us, talking about the antichrist)
MPAA / Hollywood / Swedish goverment / a lot of people (2006-05-31): MPAA press release our comment
Most of you probably know of the big raid of 2006-05-31. Some day we will write a separate page about all the events. Look at the documentary Steal This Film for more information.
Indiana Gregg (Gr8pop ltd) (2008-06-22): email and response, 2nd email and response, 3rd email and response, 4th (sic!) email and response
No action (except ridiculing the senders) has been taken by us because of these. :-)
Nice graphs for the law firms who don't get the hint above:
Microsoft: email (we get tons of these)
Mono Music: email (swedish)
DreamWorks: email our response
EA: email our response
Uppsala universitet: emails our response mail exchange back and forth final mail (they also called the phone# in whois) (swedish)
ADV Films: email our response
Sublimal Sounds: email our response 2nd mail and response
SEGA: email our response 2nd mail 3rd mail and response
Sveriges Radio: email our response (swedish)
Peter Pehrson - enya.com / Warner Music: email our response
Apple: email our response
White Stripes / WEB SHERIFF: email our response 2nd mail and response our fax (invoice) 3rd mail attached document We tell Faxxsheriff about our new site 4th mail our response
Warner Bros / Billy Corgan / GrayZone Inc: email our response
Warner Bros / Disturbed / GrayZone Inc: email our response 2nd email and response
iRacing: letter (yes, they sent us a PDF) our response (the actual response was a 1MB BMP file, but well...)
Andrew Rabbitt / Rabbit Valley Comics: email our response 2nd email
Linotype: postal mail (1 2) our response (1 2)
Prophecy House: email and our response (he also called us, talking about the antichrist)
MPAA / Hollywood / Swedish goverment / a lot of people (2006-05-31): MPAA press release our comment
Most of you probably know of the big raid of 2006-05-31. Some day we will write a separate page about all the events. Look at the documentary Steal This Film for more information.
Indiana Gregg (Gr8pop ltd) (2008-06-22): email and response, 2nd email and response, 3rd email and response, 4th (sic!) email and response
No action (except ridiculing the senders) has been taken by us because of these. :-)
Nice graphs for the law firms who don't get the hint above:
Pirate Bay Law Suit
Published on January 31, 2008 at http://torrentfreak.com/
"In an few hours from now The Pirate Bay team will probably be charged with aiding or facilitating copyright infringement. If they are found guilty, they could receive sentences of up to 2 years in prison, but the site will remain online, no matter what."
"Update: The Swedish prosecutor has announced the charges against the Pirate Bay admins.
Last month, the Swedish authorities announced that they were planning to press charges against 5 people involved with The Pirate Bay, stating that the 5 individuals will be charged with “facilitating copyright infringement”.
Today, after nearly two years of collecting evidence, the prosecutor will officially press charges. But, no matter what the outcome of the case, The Pirate Bay says that they’re here to stay.
On the Pirate Bay Blog we read: “In case we lose the pending trial (yeah right) there will still not be any changes to the site. The Pirate Bay will keep operating just as always. We’ve been here for years and we will be here for many more.”
The Pirate Bay is not hosted in Sweden anymore, in fact, the Pirate Bay crew claims that they themselves have no idea where the servers are located. After the raid on their servers in 2006, they decided that it was better not to know where they are. One thing is sure though, they are not hosted in just one country.
For those who are interested, all the legal documents the police collected in the upcoming case can now be bought form the Swedish police for only $1000. They sure try to profit from all the recent media attention. However, Brokep is reasonable, as he says: “Even though the information in the investigation might be a bit personal at times (alcohol intake, sex addictions) we’re not suing the police for commercially exploiting the material they took from us without permission.”
For now, The Pirate Bay team is staying confident and firm in the belief that they have nothing to worry about. They argue that they are just running a search engine, and never stored any copyrighted material on their servers.
Stay tuned for more Pirate Bay news today."
"In an few hours from now The Pirate Bay team will probably be charged with aiding or facilitating copyright infringement. If they are found guilty, they could receive sentences of up to 2 years in prison, but the site will remain online, no matter what."
"Update: The Swedish prosecutor has announced the charges against the Pirate Bay admins.
Last month, the Swedish authorities announced that they were planning to press charges against 5 people involved with The Pirate Bay, stating that the 5 individuals will be charged with “facilitating copyright infringement”.
Today, after nearly two years of collecting evidence, the prosecutor will officially press charges. But, no matter what the outcome of the case, The Pirate Bay says that they’re here to stay.
On the Pirate Bay Blog we read: “In case we lose the pending trial (yeah right) there will still not be any changes to the site. The Pirate Bay will keep operating just as always. We’ve been here for years and we will be here for many more.”
The Pirate Bay is not hosted in Sweden anymore, in fact, the Pirate Bay crew claims that they themselves have no idea where the servers are located. After the raid on their servers in 2006, they decided that it was better not to know where they are. One thing is sure though, they are not hosted in just one country.
For those who are interested, all the legal documents the police collected in the upcoming case can now be bought form the Swedish police for only $1000. They sure try to profit from all the recent media attention. However, Brokep is reasonable, as he says: “Even though the information in the investigation might be a bit personal at times (alcohol intake, sex addictions) we’re not suing the police for commercially exploiting the material they took from us without permission.”
For now, The Pirate Bay team is staying confident and firm in the belief that they have nothing to worry about. They argue that they are just running a search engine, and never stored any copyrighted material on their servers.
Stay tuned for more Pirate Bay news today."
Three Strikes and your OUT
A “draft consultation Green Paper” to be released by the UK Government proposes a three strikes and you’re out law to combat illegal downloads.
Under the proposal, UK internet users will be monitored by their ISP’s for illegal downloads, and those caught will receive an e-mail warning in the first instance, internet suspension the second time, and then termination of their contract on the third strike. A similar law was proposed in France back in November 2007.
According to the BBC quoting The Times, broadband firms which failed to enforce the rules could be prosecuted, and the details of customers suspected of making illegal downloads would be made available to the courts.
The proposal faces several serious hurdles, such as attributing blame where internet access is shared, and then determining what is illegal content. Although BitTorrent traffic is primarily pirated material, there is also increasing amounts of legal material as well. Even this week a German record company offered its entire music catalog via Pirate Bay, so even using and accessing material from the most famed pirate site of them all may not actually constitute downloading illegal material.
The proposal unsurprisingly comes from the Music and Record industry, and although not yet law is being promoted by the UK Government as part of a “comprehensive plan to bolster the UK’s creative industries,” so looks like it will be implemented at some time in the future. [Techcrunch UK has more].
Under the proposal, UK internet users will be monitored by their ISP’s for illegal downloads, and those caught will receive an e-mail warning in the first instance, internet suspension the second time, and then termination of their contract on the third strike. A similar law was proposed in France back in November 2007.
According to the BBC quoting The Times, broadband firms which failed to enforce the rules could be prosecuted, and the details of customers suspected of making illegal downloads would be made available to the courts.
The proposal faces several serious hurdles, such as attributing blame where internet access is shared, and then determining what is illegal content. Although BitTorrent traffic is primarily pirated material, there is also increasing amounts of legal material as well. Even this week a German record company offered its entire music catalog via Pirate Bay, so even using and accessing material from the most famed pirate site of them all may not actually constitute downloading illegal material.
The proposal unsurprisingly comes from the Music and Record industry, and although not yet law is being promoted by the UK Government as part of a “comprehensive plan to bolster the UK’s creative industries,” so looks like it will be implemented at some time in the future. [Techcrunch UK has more].
Simulated Project Research Ideas - Pro Piracy Advert
The first idea I began to think about was to be my version of the Pro Piracy infomercial. My aim for this assignment was to spread awareness of illegal downloading and the consequences of doing it. After a indepth discussion with my tutor, i was left with some constructive critisism to develop and improve my idea. My developments on how to bring relevance to my idea just meant that i would not be able to get all my information across in the short time we have to not only create it, but also because the duration of the ad is only 20 secs. Below is the kind of style i was thinking of going with:
Careing is Sharing
From the growing accessibility of digital tools and networks have come new means and practices for distributing digital content.Napster, Kazaa, and BitTorrent, M2M sharing platforms such as DeviantArt, Flickr, Fanfiction.net, and YouTube, and social networking tools such as MySpace, LiveJournal, and Facebook radically expand opportunities for individuals to share media and information directly with others in a social context.
The Brief
The Brief
The Copyright Protection Society is starting a public information campaign that
illustrates and explains what file sharing is, when and why it is illegal and also the
consequences of being involved with this illegal activity. They want you to
produce a piece of multimedia that will address the points above. You have six
weeks to complete the task and you are required to produce a short proposal of
your designs and ideas then you will produce the multimedia product.
The Copyright Protection Society is starting a public information campaign that
illustrates and explains what file sharing is, when and why it is illegal and also the
consequences of being involved with this illegal activity. They want you to
produce a piece of multimedia that will address the points above. You have six
weeks to complete the task and you are required to produce a short proposal of
your designs and ideas then you will produce the multimedia product.
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