VODO

"VODO… stands for “voluntary donations.” The idea is to put unique digital fingerprints on video and other content distributed on BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. This will enable a work to be reliably connected to the creator, despite the free and unrestricted sharing of the work on the Internet. VODO would enable appreciative fans to send donations in an easy, frictionless way to creators—more conveniently than PayPal, for example. It would begin to help finance a new commons-based sector of production."

vodo.net

If I had any money to invest in this, I would :) - hmm. I guess this would plug nicely into the "new" Creative Commons. More on this soon.

Søren Fauli: Jeg fildeler - og tror ikke på min "drop kopierne"-kampagne

(dette er en follow-up på et debatarrangement i Kødbyen igår - jeg håber at udvide det med en opklarende blogposte snarest) Tak til genau.dk for illustration og til Den Anden Natur.

Jeg sidder på færgen på vej hjem fra Bornholm og tænker over debatarrangementet igår. Eftersom jeg ikke har fået meget søvn, er der kun to-tre ting der hænger ved, så kom gerne med tilføjelser.

- jeg var overrasket over at Søren Fauli (der kom med på et afbud, og kun for et kort inspark) indrømme at han ikke selv tror på budskabet i “drop kopierne” reklamekampagne (link) som han har instrueret og spiller med i. Han lagde ud med at deklarere at han da selv fildeler - men samtidig bliver "pissesur" når han opdager at folk kopierer hans værk. Her mener Fauli nok "De Skrigende Halse", som han også henviser til i reklamen - det er det eneste, han har lavet, som brugerne på The Pirate Bay nogensinde vil interessere sig for, tror jeg personligt.

Gad vide hvad han indleder med når han taler med IFPI eller danske videogramdistributører?
Man tænker: Hvorfor lavede han så reklamerne? Der har været og er stadig folk der bliver sagsøgt og må bruger måneder og år af deres liv i ubehagelige retsager for forholdsvis uskyldige ting - husker nogen Kjeld Bach sagen? - og det kan Fauli ikke løbe udenom at han lagt både ansigt, navn og omdømme til. Tror Jesper Bay og APG heller ikke på deres budskaber?

Jeg spurgte, hvor meget han så fik for kampagnen? Tænkte: man må da i det mindste håbe han blev godt betalt for det, når han nu ikke troede på den (manipulerende, upræcise "at dele filer = at stjæle") -argumentation. Undvigende svarede han "ikke særlig meget; jeg tror Sofie og Nikolaj fik 5000 hver" og nævnte ikke instruktørhonoraret.

Fauli kom derefter me to scenarier, hvoraf han med det samme aflivede det ene, og derfter foreslog en bredbåndsafgift som skulle deles mellem "de udøvende", hvem det så end er. Og så gik han; skulle passe sin søn.

- Jeg spændt på at se hvad Peter Sunde og venner finder på næste gang. Sunde nævnte (og har tidligere hørt Jamie King omtale) en ny teknologi de arbejder på, der skal gøre frivillige donationer lettere. Det er jeg personligt meget interesseret i - PayPal fungerer måske, men de har monopol, er elendige, og dyre. Lidt ligesom blanket licens-tanken har jeg svært ved at se fungere i praksis, lige nu og her - men når Pirate Bay drengene går igang med noget - ja så plejer det jo at fungere..

Fildeling vs. fremtidens kulturmarked; Pirate Bay mfl.

kom til debatarrangement på i Kødbyen torsdag hvis du er interesseret i ovenstående. Jeg ser frem til at møde Peter Sunde fra Pirate Bay og til prøve at moderere den brogede debat.

Materialet, vi brugte i Good Copy Bad Copy fik vi af The League of Noble Peers, som lavede Steal this Film. 2´eren vises også denne aften - læs evt denne glimrende beskrivelse / anmeldelse / sammenligning af Felix Stalder - men jeg har aldrig mødt folkene bag The Pirate Bay "in the flesh".

Mere hos Den Anden Natur

Gilberto Gil at Google Zeitgeist: Viva la Peeracy!

(via Joi Ito)

Gilberto Gil gave a speech the other day at Google Zeitgeist (below) touting the advantages of distributed, peer to peer culture. I am not surprised it's Gil and not Brian Mikkelsen, Gil's danish counterpart, trying to articulate the air du temps of digital culture. To be fair, it's difficult to beat Gil's cool factor..

I met Gil and his team (and did not just drink beer with them), and wish more progressive people worked closer with governments around the world to make them understand digital culture. One thing I do miss, though, in Gil's speech, is the inadequacy of the traditional left / right political spectrum, to capture what is at play:

"Digital Culture initiatives can play a fundamental role in shaking away the inertia of the traditional politics that has secluded society from public life, generating a vacuum of critical political thinking and even producing cynicism, especially in governmental sectors. We need to acknowledge that traditional politics is failing in advancing democracy and social development.
The conversion of the digital technologies, has created around the Internet a totally peaceful revolution. A bottom up unrest, happening everywhere, which I see as a very positive sign of the rising of a non governmental political movement that I believe to be a direct and matured result of cultural and countercultural movements of our most recent history, in their increasing power to influence public policies.

It is the rise of a peer to peer culture. Peeracy!"

Read the full speech here

Stopmotion street art og skateboard i hjemmet

En ven sendte mig en link til den her for et par dage siden. Wow.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

En anden sendte den her. Hvem sagde at skatevideoer er en udtømt genre?

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Bornholm Bike Bonanza

Lately I´ve been doing some experiments with mountainbiking and one-man video journalism. Nothing like combining work and pleasure :)

In this video, I go on a trip through Paradisbakkerne (The Paradise Hills), including a nice crash captured on camera. In this one, I show the curvy tracks of the North-east Coast, and in this quick one, the breathtaking west coast track. All of it was done by placing the camera at a fixed angle and riding past - sounds easier than it is :)

Enjoy! - and sorry for mac-hostile player and laggy windoze video. Danish language, no subs.

Good Copy Bad Copy on Swedish TV

I was just told that Good Copy Bad Copy, which I co-directed with Ralf Christensen and Andreas Johnsen, is scheduled for broadcast tonight on SVT2. We negotiated the deal a while ago, but not it's on, apparently :) (Re-runs on 11/5 and 13/5).
If you don't speak Swedish, or happen to live elsewhere, you can download it here (700 mb mp4) or watch it here, with English subs

UPDATED: You can stream GCBC here in full screen (Windows Media, sorry, or Real Player) with swedish subs from SVT.
Dagens nyheter has written a nice piece too, and there is a discussion going on Rick Falkvinge's blog

NIN means business - when will Radiohead?

I am really pleased to see NIN releasing another CC licensed album, just two months after Ghosts I-IV. The release shows that this is more than just a marketing stunt to NIN. I wish Radiohead would have done this, but I guess they´re too busy thinking about the environment (like everyone else these days), green touring etc. to consider the ecology of ideas and culture - which is something they ought to know more about ...

"Just two months after the Creative Commons-licensed release of NIN’s Ghosts I-IV, the band has released another album, entitled The Slip, also under CC terms. NIN has this to say about The Slip, which, like its predecessor, is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.

we encourage you to
remix it
share it with your friends,
post it on your blog,
play it on your podcast,
give it to strangers,
etc.

/Via Eric Steuer