Taking a Perfectly Lovely Piano and Fine-Tuning Its Personality

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Fine-Tuning The HDTV Picture

Fine-Tuning The HDTV Picture 02/17/2004 06:03 AM
Business Week Feb 17 2004 10:18AM GMT

Fine-Tuning Your Filter for Online
Information

Fine-Tuning Your Filter for Online
Information 06/03/2004 02:07 AM
A tool promises to automatically capture just the information you want, when you want, from the Web.

IISc fine-tuning IP policy for its tech

IISc fine-tuning IP policy for its tech 05/11/2004 09:03 PM
The Hindu Business Line May 11 2004 11:49PM GMT

Basics: Fine-Tuning Your Filter for
Online Information

Basics: Fine-Tuning Your Filter for
Online Information 06/03/2004 05:10 AM
Nytimes.com - Thu Jun 3, 07:23 am GMT

New iTunes Still Sings, But Fine Tuning
Lies Ahead

New iTunes Still Sings, But Fine Tuning
Lies Ahead 05/18/2004 08:58 AM
Apple doesn't have a cackling monopoly on the market for digital music, but it's making jolly progress. By Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times (via MyAppleMenu)

EU consults on fine-tuning copyright
legislation, will effect e-Government

EU consults on fine-tuning copyright
legislation, will effect e-Government 07/20/2004 02:40 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jul 20 2004 7:14AM GMT

The New York Times > Technology
> Circuits > Basics: Fine-Tuning
Your Filter for Online Information

The New York Times > Technology
> Circuits > Basics: Fine-Tuning
Your Filter for Online Information 06/03/2004 03:46 PM
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Gigablast Launches Lovely Lovely Topic
Search Tool

Gigablast Launches Lovely Lovely Topic
Search Tool 12/22/2004 01:27 AM
Oh small search engines, I heart you. The other major searches engines seems to do things in big clumps, all launching the same types of features and software at the...

Obviously, the breasts are perfectly
entertaining as well

Obviously, the breasts are perfectly
entertaining as well 06/03/2004 03:21 PM
I have become cliché, hear me roar. After yesterday's post about British magazines and the pointing to the article that advised of the presence of a Gore Vidal piece on God's place in American constitutional law, I became the punchline...

Hardware that is perfectly functional

Hardware that is perfectly functional 08/21/2004 08:39 PM
TechTree Aug 21 2004 11:48PM GMT

"Perfectly Legal" by David Cay Johnston

"Perfectly Legal" by David Cay Johnston 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
A Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter argues that the rich have ruthlessly rigged the tax system against the rest of us. Aren't you shocked?

Perfectly Good Rants Gone To Waste

Perfectly Good Rants Gone To Waste 03/27/2005 12:35 PM
Information Week Mar 27 2005 3:33PM GMT

Sajak, White Perfectly Happy in Careers
(AP)

Sajak, White Perfectly Happy in Careers
(AP) 04/09/2005 11:10 PM
AP - Pat Sajak and Vanna White know where they stand in history. It's been more than two decades since Sajak, 58, and White, 48, joined the "Wheel of Fortune" game show. But the co-hosts who so perfectly synchronize the motions of spinning the wheel and turning the letters say this will be the last stop in their careers.

Lovely Arlington, MA

Lovely Arlington, MA 05/21/2004 02:18 PM
I hate my dumbass town. Come for the ennui, stay for the police logs.

Farewell, my lovely...

Farewell, my lovely... 12/05/2003 11:27 AM

And so with a deep sigh I have consigned my beautiful Powerbook (which has been with me a such a very little time) back to the welcoming arms of Mother Apple. My child needs to be fixed. The strange mottling blotchiness of his screen had become worse and worse as the days passed by until they resembled nothing so much as a pair of staring blank eyes - evil eyes - that hovered in front of every piece of work I did, every movie I watched, every e-mail I sent. It's so difficult with beautiful computers - you love them (like a child), training and working with them until you operate as one (like a family) until eventually they betray you (like a child all over again). But when they turn sour that good feeling stays with you for longer - it's so difficult to do what must be done but do it you must. They must be sent off to faraway scientists who'll open them up with strange devices, rooting around in everything that makes them what they are and forcing their silicon biology back to standards that their parents can live with. They must be brought back to civilised behaviour whatever the cost.

Data may be lost - I accept that. The Powerbook that I gave to the rather nice-looking man from UPS may not feel or be quite the same when it returns. It will have been changed, fixed, broken and reformed. But when it returns it will work - and work it must - for I have typing to do.

A lovely article on Gaydar...

A lovely article on Gaydar... 12/08/2003 09:17 AM

There is a quite charming article on the Independent's site today - Confessions of a Gaydar junkie - which is about one of the world's most successful (and mostly unsung) pieces of social software: Gaydar. Like most truly dedicated social software enthusiasts, I have - of course - forced myself to investigate the service, although with a certain amount of disappointment and embarrassment I feel compelled to confess that I've never actually met anyone off it. I suppose that means that my dedication to the cause of computer-mediated social interaction has some limits. Either that or I'm too embarrassed.

Anyway, the article is particularly good value, which I suppose you might expect since Mark Simpson wrote it. Mark - you will recall - wrote the rather irritating/insightful book Anti-Gay. He writes of his experiences:

"Moralists who protest at gay e-promiscuity should be encouraging the Government to provide gays with grants for permanent broadband connections, since the internet not only keeps them off the streets and out of the parks, it turns all that messy sexual energy and appetite into ... typing. Gays have become the unpaid secretaries of desire, filing and cataloguing human weakness. Promiscuity is now a form of bureaucracy. Tedious, eye-straining, number-crunching slave work. Don't bother feeling jealous, all you sexually frustrated, non-online non-gays: internet cruising is its own form of punishment."

Well obviously, I'm not really into a position to comment on all that stuff, being at least as inadequate at pulling on a site dedicated to the process as I appear to be in real-life (is it the beard, do you think?). But there are some other aspects to the piece which I think are interesting in terms of the relationship between the internet as a place for social interaction and as a means unto itself. I'll give you an example to end with - which although perhaps presented in rather absolutist terms is certainly entertaining enough to be worth reporting as fact:

"You see, the real efficiency of online dating, just as with internet anything, is not the way it delivers you lots of pointless sex without leaving the house, but the way that it ensures that you will be spending more time on the internet."

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Justin Mason: Lovely Filelight

Justin Mason: Lovely Filelight 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
This looks like a cool way to find out where your space went:...

Avon Delivers Lovely Results

Avon Delivers Lovely Results 07/29/2004 04:49 PM
The cosmetics seller reports beautiful second-quarter results.

The lovely Julia Whitney [Flickr]

The lovely Julia Whitney [Flickr] 12/17/2004 06:42 PM

The Red Piano

The Red Piano 04/13/2005 02:32 PM
The Red Piano designed and directed by David LaChapelle featuring Elton John, now showing at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Some clips are burlesqu e (2mb qt), weird (1.5mb qt) or meaningless out of context(12.5mb qt), but this most beautiful dance sequence(20mb qt) makes it all worthwhile.

Steel Henge. Tomorrows Manhattan sunset
will align perfectly with the grid.

Steel Henge. Tomorrows Manhattan sunset
will align perfectly with the grid. 06/05/2005 10:51 PM
If it is clear, Manhattan will flood dramatically with sunlight just as the Sun sets precisely on the centerline of...

The Eerily Lovely Children of the
Photoshop Generation

The Eerily Lovely Children of the
Photoshop Generation 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Loretta Lux, a 34-year-old German artist, has realized that a light touch is sometimes the most effective technique for digital enhancement.

Piano Tuner 1.0

Piano Tuner 1.0 03/17/2005 04:24 AM
Chromatic scale strobe tuner for piano and other musical instruments.

Rain on Sahara's Fringe Is Lovely
Weather for Locusts

Rain on Sahara's Fringe Is Lovely
Weather for Locusts 07/21/2004 02:44 AM
A locust called the pilgrim cricket is sweeping across northern Africa in the worst infestation since the late 1980's.

Full-bodied, with a long finish and a
lovely glow

Full-bodied, with a long finish and a
lovely glow 06/22/2005 02:20 AM
Here's a problem we don't have in the wine country where we live: Chernobyl fallout levels can date wine. By measuring levels of Cesium-137 left over from Russian atmospheric nuclear tests and the Chernobyl accident, the wine's vintage can be...

Best Keyboard for MIDI / Piano

Best Keyboard for MIDI / Piano 01/10/2004 12:26 AM

Piano Learning Software

Piano Learning Software 01/08/2004 07:20 PM

Search Engine for Classical Piano Works

Search Engine for Classical Piano Works 07/16/2004 10:02 PM
It's got information on over 5100 works and over 14000 movements/excerpts. It's got information on over 800 composers and almost fifty countries. It's called Pianopedia and it's available at http://www.pianopedia.com...

"Psuedo-Journalism: Don't be a piano
player in a whorehouse"

"Psuedo-Journalism: Don't be a piano
player in a whorehouse" 05/10/2004 03:10 AM

Swedish researchers build cardboard
piano

Swedish researchers build cardboard
piano 06/02/2004 09:42 PM
Boston Globe Jun 3 2004 1:39AM GMT

MIDIs made from scanned piano-rolls

MIDIs made from scanned piano-rolls 04/06/2005 09:56 AM
Cory Doctorow: This guy scans in vintage piano rolls, converts the bitmaps to MIDI instructions, and then outputs MIDI files, suitable for use as ringtones, background music, what have hou. Piano rolls were the first digital music source -- great to see the data-files being ported over for modern hardware. He's got more than 2,000 rolls digitized! Link (via Make Blog)

great piano rendition of the Mario theme

great piano rendition of the Mario theme 02/13/2004 02:41 PM
we've all heard the song, but somehow this rendition just brings it all back to life

Yamaha CVP Keyboards: First Electronic
Piano with Realtime Streaming

Yamaha CVP Keyboards: First Electronic
Piano with Realtime Streaming 08/21/2004 09:11 AM

Keyboardists will appreciate Yamaha's new "CVP" series of electronic pianos and keyboards, providing they can afford the ~$5,000 USD these cost. The most prominent new feature of this series is direct streaming - meaning, you can not only connect to Yamaha's site directly from the keyboard and play live songs, but you can also broadcast your own renditions realtime. I can't really imagine an era where we attend concerts over the net, at least until we work out some latency issues, but I guess this would be an effective way to form a student-teacher relationship online. Then again, with all the features these offer, why do you need a teacher?

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Power Plant Shut -- to Tune Piano
(Reuters)

Power Plant Shut -- to Tune Piano
(Reuters) 05/28/2004 11:09 AM
Reuters - One of the Nordic region's biggest power stations shut Friday to let an expert tune a grand piano for a concert undisturbed by the hum of huge hydroelectric generators.

Now that's mobile entertainment:
eccentric dude's piano bar on wheels

Now that's mobile entertainment:
eccentric dude's piano bar on wheels 07/13/2004 12:23 PM
Following up on yesterday's post about the ice cream truck converted into a reggae dub soundsystem on wheels, Bill Pollock says: "Harrington King (whose business cards read "Spiritual Optimist") regularly parks his custom piano bar on wheels at various places down midtown [Sacramento, California] most weekend nights. Its cozy inside, appropriately piano bar-y with assorted bongos for those who feel moved to play. An awful photo but decent writeup avaialble via the News & Review (L ink) and the traveling piano bar has its own website (Link)."

On the piano bar website, an archived interview in the Sacramento Bee, in which the eccentric dude says:

(Reporter) Do you have a favorite weekend song to play?
(King) I've got a Sacramento song that people like.
(Reporter) What's that?
(King) I don't know. I guess it's called "Sacramento Song."
(Reporter) You go to any music spots around town?
(King) I am a music spot around town.

Link

Bandmateloops adds new guitar, piano
Apple loops

Bandmateloops adds new guitar, piano
Apple loops 02/01/2005 09:55 PM
SonicEmulations' Bandmateloops.com on Monday announced the release of two new Apple Loops collections designed for GarageBand users. Bandmates Guitar Player -- Electric Guitar includes more than 45 loops that range from "funky wah to classic rock and blues, to hard rock." Bandmates Keyboard Player -- Electric Piano features "a vintage keys collection -- no synthesizers here." Included are 75 "funky riffs and motifs [that] take your rock, funk and jazz to the next level." Both collections were recorded in 24-bit, and were culled from premium vintage keyboards and electric guitars featuring custom amps, some processing and, in some cases, amp simulation. The new collections are available for electronic delivery and cost US$13.95 each. Previews and demo loops are available for download.

Blindfolded man performing Mario Bros
music on a piano

Blindfolded man performing Mario Bros
music on a piano 07/09/2004 09:59 AM
Here's a video of an Asian man wearing a blindfold, performing a very sprightly rendition of the theme and atmospheric music from Super Mario Brothers on a piano. His work on the atmospheric music is particularily inspired. 7.6MB WMV Link (Thanks, Robert!)

"better at taking credit than taking
action."

"better at taking credit than taking
action." 01/03/2005 05:57 AM

San Francisco Pianists Join Together for
"Whisperings" Solo Piano Concert

San Francisco Pianists Join Together for
"Whisperings" Solo Piano Concert 06/18/2004 03:10 AM
"Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio" (http://www.solopianoradio.com) is proud to present its first Whisperings Artist Showcase in the San Francisco area on July 17th and 18th at 7:00 pm. This first concert series features the solo piano artistry of Suzanne Ciani, David Nevue, Janie Horton, Scott D. Davis, Laura Sullivan, Michael Dulin, Steven Cravis and Eric McCarl. Seven solo piano artists performing in an intimate house concert setting over two nights. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]
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Torrent 0.61

Torrent 0.61 01/27/2004 02:58 PM
An arcade game with colored tiles.

Torrent Zip

Torrent Zip 03/31/2005 11:44 PM
The project is live!

My first torrent

My first torrent 07/30/2004 03:00 AM

Thanks to Jim and Ado for setting up the BitTorrent tracker. Here is a torrent for Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture talk in Helsinki that I blogged about earlier.

UPDATE: Please standby. It doesn't seem to be working.

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Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV

Torrentocracy = RSS + Bit Torrent + Your
TV 06/21/2004 07:41 AM

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns 12/22/2004 01:40 AM
Slashdot Dec 21 2004 6:33PM GMT

CC Torrent Hosting

CC Torrent Hosting 12/17/2004 06:33 PM

Torrentocracy has announced a free BitTorrent hosting service for Creative Commons licensed content: Prodigem.

Download one of the beta torrents currently available. Send an email to Torrentocracy creator Gary Lerhaupt to request an upload account.

Update: Download all of the Duke Law School Arts Project Moving Image Contest finalists via one torrent at prodigem.

Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent

Sri Lankan hip-hop mix: torrent 03/17/2005 03:55 AM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Lucas Emery says,

Your big article on M.I.A over the weekend reminded me that I had downloaded a mix mp3 shortly after the Tsunami disaster comprised exclusivly of Sri Lankan hip-hop. I can't remember where I originally found the mix (boomselection, maybe?) so I just made a .torrent. 58.4 Meg mp3 mix by Dr. Auratheft.

Link

Previously: M.I.A. is, well, MIA; and MIA for intergalactic overlord

It's the torrent, stupid

It's the torrent, stupid 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Xeni Jardin: Mark Pesce rants about the recent shutdowns of BitTorrent supersites Suprnova.org and TorrentBits.com.

Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers? Do you understand how badly you've screwed up? You took a perfectly serviceable situation - a nice, centralized system for the distribution of media, and, through your own greed and shortsightedness, are giving birth to a system of digital distribution that you'll never, ever be able to defeat. In your avarice and arrogance you ignored the obvious: you should have cut a deal with SuprNova.org. In partnership you could have found a way to manage the disruptive change that's already well underway. Instead, you have repeated the mistakes made by the recording industry, chapter and verse. And thus you have spelled your own doom.

It's said that the best sequels are just like the original, only bigger and louder. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for one hell of a crash. This baby is now fully out of control.

Link (via waxy)

Bit Torrent : An Analysis

Bit Torrent : An Analysis 12/19/2004 03:10 PM
Hardy news site, The Register, recently published a detailed analysis of the file sharing protocol Bit Torrent. Bit Torrent has received attention in the main stream news after reports that it was carrying as much as 50% of all peer 2 peer (p2p) traffic, which in tern amounted to a massive 30% of all the traffic on the internet. The paper, by Dr. Johan Pouwelse, examines the protocol and looks especially at one of the largest bit-torrent hubs, Suprnova.org. He examines how just 20 moderators solve the problem of fake files, something that plagues the traditional file sharing networks like Kazaa.

Dr Powelse notes that the major problems facing hubs like suprnova are fakes and maintaining hub availability. The availability of files on bit torrent is based on a centralised system; without it, the network fails as users cannot access the trackers. Decentralising bit torrent has already begun - Suprnova have started a project called "Exeem" which apparently has 5,000 beta testers trialling it, and has an ultimate aim of taking the best of Kazaa (a decentralised network) and merging it with Bit Torrent. Decentralisation removes the issue of poor availability at the tracker end, yet0 it also provides more scope for fake files and a reduction in data integrity at the user end.

The paper concludes that bit-torrent needs to evolve to create incentives to users to seed files. Bit-torrent as a protocol is a system that’s here to stay; it enjoys more and more usage from more main stream content providers. Yes, there is a lot of illegitimate use of the protocol, but unlike Kazaa, these users should not be allowed to over shadow the usefulness to legitimate users of the bit torrent protocol.

[Update] Since this article was published, Suprnova has shutdown as a hub for torrents. Although this cannot be confirmed, the shutdown is very likely related to legal action from the Hollywood against tracker websites; earlier in the week many other sites were taken down. The effectiveness of the takedowns could be massive; the paper below notes that when on the Suprnova mirrors went offline during their monitoring period, they saw a massive reduction in the number of users downloading files through the site.

Download: The Paper (pdf) | The Register

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Bit Torrent question

Bit Torrent question 04/09/2004 10:30 PM
Bit Torrent and the ability to download everything in one click (is this the end of Direct TV, Tivo and the music business?!).

Used BitTorrent a little bit when it first came out and was a bit underwhelmed. It didn’t work, there weren’t a lot of places to find files, etc.

I decided to take another look at it when a designer friend of mine was telling me that he has the latest version of every single piece of design software on his Mac compliments of bit torrent (yes, I know it’s wrong… not the point I’m trying to make, the point is coming :-).

Part I: I installed bit torrent and immediately noticed an amazing new trend (prob. not new to all of you) of people posting dozens of albums in one RAR file for download. Huge file sizes in the 500 to 4,000 meg size range. The last season of seven seasons of Southpark, every Nirvanna album and here is another file with every Howard Stern radio show from March in one file.

In one click you grab one really well organized, clean and deep sets of files—scary.

Part II: A couple of month ago I got the Gateway Connected DVD player. For $195 it connects via WiFi to my desktop and I can hit the My Music or My Videos button on the remote control and pull up those directories on my hard drive (in the other room).

Part III: Today I moved into my new apartment in Santa Monica and was faced with the standard $100 month cable/dish bill and I’m thinking “dang, I only watch less then a half dozen TV shows and they are all here on bit torrent… maybe I should save the $1,200 a year and just download the shows and watch them via my Gateway Connected DVD player?”

The Point/Question: How soon before you’ll be able-with one click-download every prime-time TV show or last year’s top 500 CDs in one click?!

(Note: This is not a trick question, I have yet to find a file containing that much content—however, I did find a file with last weeks top 100 singles that someone put together in one nice package).

[The Digital Music Weblog]

Xcode .torrent

Xcode .torrent 08/08/2004 02:13 AM
Apple just released an update to is Xcode development tools, but Apple's content distribution network is slow and poky, and as Danny notes, it "won't let you resume downloads using wget -c." So here's a .torrent for Xcode. Link (via Oblomovka)

Battle Torrent

Battle Torrent 08/11/2004 09:45 AM

Thanks to Dave over at Scripting News for the link. The already easy process of downloading files via BitTorrent has just gotten easier. [Downhill Battle]

ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2

ShiftyGames Torrent 0.8.2 05/05/2004 10:52 PM
An arcade game with colored tiles.

Torrent of video from DV Guide

Torrent of video from DV Guide 08/30/2004 02:55 AM

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Torrent Site Status

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SP2 Bit Torrent Legal Challenge

SP2 Bit Torrent Legal Challenge 08/11/2004 05:20 PM

Download the Windows XP Service Pack 2: The guys who were doing Microsoft a favor by pushing Service Pack 2 via Bit Torrent got slapped down by Redmond.

Microsoft sent DMCA takedown notices to our two webhosts, one of which was just linking to a torrent file on another server. We've stood up to these kinds of legal threats before (see the Grey Tuesday protests), but we decided not to bother this time, because we started this site primarily as a demonstration and to that end it's already been a huge success.

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Comrade - Bit Torrent Client

Comrade - Bit Torrent Client 06/24/2004 12:03 AM
Working.

Grokster briefs torrent

Grokster briefs torrent 03/26/2005 05:13 AM
Cory Doctorow: Thad sez, "This is a torrent of all of the briefs submitted re: MGM v. Grokster, in the zip format provided on the U.S. Copyright Office site." Torrent Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB

Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2
Users?

Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2
Users? 11/18/2003 07:54 PM

"Torrent Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB"

"Torrent Link for 74 briefs in 20.7MB" 03/27/2005 10:28 AM

Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent

Microsoft builds a better Bit Torrent 06/17/2005 03:18 PM
Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent.

The researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent faster, using their network coding approach, than on systems that only code at the server, and between 200 and 300 per cent faster than distributing un-encoded information.

View: Full Article @ The Register
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Torrent for Windows XP Service Pack 2

Torrent for Windows XP Service Pack 2 08/09/2004 04:48 PM
Microsoft needs to distribute its new Win XP Service Pack 2 to 260 million Windows users at 75MB each. Moving a wodge that big to that many machines is too much even for the biggest software company on the planet. So the folks at Downhill Battle have seized upon this as an opportunity to prove the substantial noninfringing uses of P2P by releasing a .torrent of SP@ (complete with checksum info so that you can verify that this isn't some malware-riddled trojan, except to the extent that it is a typical piece of the Windows XP OS). Join the mesh, shoulder the load, get your medicine -- the 21st Century way. Link (via Waxy)

Outfoxed interviews available under CC
license via Bit Torrent

Outfoxed interviews available under CC
license via Bit Torrent 09/15/2004 03:51 AM

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Outfoxed Torrent (torrentocracy exclusive)

In working with Lawrence Lessig, Robert Greenwald has agreed to release the interviews within Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism under a Creative Commons non-commercial license (press release). This means that among the rights now granted, interviews balancing out the fair journalism of Fox News can freely be used as anyone sees fit. To see the full movie, you can purchase the Outfoxed DVD or check it out in theaters.

Torrentocracy (along with archive.org) has exclusive initial access to distribute these interviews in their digital form due to the work undertaken to promote a TV-connected, public domain, internet based media distribution network. The torrent file to start your Outfoxed download can be found at http://www.torrentocracy.com/files/torrents/outfoxed_intervie ws.torrent. For more information on how to use bit torrent peer-to-peer filesharing to download this, go here. If you were a Torrentocracy user, you could already be downloading Outfoxed to your television.

Here's some serious substantial non-infringing use of P2P. I bought the DVD and watched Outfoxed. Definitely worth buying the DVD, but being able to download and use the interviews from the documentary is a great contribution to the commons. It will be interesting to see how people remix this stuff.

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Outfoxed interviews .torrent for
remixing

Outfoxed interviews .torrent for
remixing 09/15/2004 11:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: The interviews from the awesome anti-Fox documentary Outfoxed have been released under a Creative Commons license, for you to remix. Here's the .torrent: Torrent Link (via Lessig)

BeeTV - automatic torrent downloader

BeeTV - automatic torrent downloader 04/15/2005 10:02 AM
Prototype version released

Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P

Bit Torrent creator laughs at Microsoft
P2P 06/24/2005 08:36 PM

Taking a Perfectly Lovely Piano and Fine-Tuning Its Personality