Comments on: Unconstitutional: Greenwald's latest

By: Brentmeister General

Brentmeister General — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:36:10 +0000

Mr. Dylan is fully present in re-experiencing the dawn of his songwriting career. "You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs," he says. Instead, he remembers feeling the need to "convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/05/books/05masl.html?oref=login&8hpib

By: McAuley George

McAuley George — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:26:15 +0000

Where ken I get the Movies. We the moving sands we moust resiste the occupiers an there genocide. WE are the voices of dissent. Remover the Indian, we are the only nation that tried as national policy to wipe outits indigenous population.This is one of maney .Iraq a comtinus of that policy GWB isw waving the banner of GOD, wall in his other hand the SWORD.

By: McAuley George

McAuley George — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:24:41 +0000

By: nate

nate — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:39:43 +0000

An interview with Greenwald talking about his experience with direct distribution instead of theatrical release is here
It makes an nice parallel with the Terry Fisher comments on the savings available by internet distribution.

By: raoul

raoul — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:26:01 +0000

Just bought it. The automatic redriect to paypal made it too easy.

By: John

John — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 02:52:12 +0000

Robert Greenwald plans to allow all his movies to be downloaded so that the general public can edit them in anyway they see fit. I used "Outfoxed" in our making of the song " Shut Up" which you can hear on our blog http://www.crooksandliars.com
which Mr. Lessig was nice enough to put on his blog. I haven't seen the new movie yet, but can't wait to have access to it, so I can write some cool new music with it.

By: Andrew Boysen

Andrew Boysen — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 23:19:44 +0000

Not exactly on the same topic, but...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/01/copying.dollars.ap/index.html

"Making these digital copies is getting harder, thanks to secretive anti-counterfeiting technology built into some popular consumer hardware and software products at the request of government regulators and international bankers.
The technology detects and blocks attempts to view, scan or print copies of the redesigned $20 and $50 bills and, in a pop-up window, urges consumers to visit a Web site, www.rulesforuse.org, to learn about international counterfeit laws."

"Its broad adoption represents one of the rare occasions when the U.S. technology industry has quietly agreed to requests by government and finance officials to include third-party software code in commercial products. Most companies have never publicly revealed to customers they include such counterfeit protections in products.
Precisely how the technology works is a mystery. The U.S. government keeps its inner workings a closely guarded secret, arguing that disclosing too much information could help counterfeiters circumvent protections.
It also has declined to identify which companies have agreed to add the technology in their products, although Kodak, Xerox, Adobe Systems, Ulead Systems and Hewlett-Packard are among those known to use it. The European Union is considering a proposal to require all software companies to include such anti-counterfeit technology."

"The Federal Reserve earlier this year denied a request and an appeal by The Associated Press under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act to learn some details about the system. The AP, which first revealed the program's existence in January, sought to learn whether the technology surreptitiously tracks consumers who try to copy bills, which U.S. agencies and private vendors built it, and how much it cost."

"One document obtained by the AP, a 1998 U.S. government business solicitation, mandated that "any color printer must include a tracing system that encodes system identification in any output. This will tie the output to the originating equipment so that forensic identification of the equipment is possible in the event of illegal printing of currency images due to failure or circumvention of the recognition system(s)....""

I hope this is fair use...