Comments on: no, i have no tickets

By: J.B. Nicholson-Owens

J.B. Nicholson-Owens — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:11:51 +0000

I look forward to seeing or at least hearing what happened.

If this is licensed to share, I'm sure archive.org would host copies of it. If you upload a FLAC or uncompressed WAV, archive.org will even make derivative formats for you (including in Ogg Vorbis format).

If you have a video, archive.org can make derivatives too. I'm not sure what formats they'll be made in, but perhaps they could be persuaded to make a derivative in Ogg Vorbis+Theora.

Thanks so much for considering all of us.

By: Ken Waagner

Ken Waagner — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:36:57 +0000

I am encoding and will be posting a chaptered QuickTime stream of the audio later this afternoon (Monday), as well as a torrent, and a podcast of the audio, and will also be posting an archive of the video in the player and will also be making the video available.

Thanks for your patience, and stay tuned.

Ken

By: jmt

jmt — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:06:53 +0000

for the impatient, time shifted audio... http://bt.viachicago.org/details.php?id=183

By: Alex Stewart

Alex Stewart — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 04:34:10 +0000

"who owns culture?" is the wrong question.

the right question is, who produces culture? and how does society encourage them to produce more?

� posted by three blind mice on Apr 7 05 at 3:24 AM

I guess the answer to who creates culture is whoever creates something shared with the rest of us or those that grant them the resources or capacity to create more for our mutual enjoyment.

Therefore to encourage the creation of more culture you either grant more resources or make it easier to create and communicate.

By: Peter Rock

Peter Rock — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:18:31 +0000

"Ken Waagner of Wilcoworld.net, the genius behind most of the Wilco web saavy, is going to make a full range of formats available, including a bittorrent (which I'll be serving from my prodigem acc't). So patience, please. These guys are giving free content. And as soon as they can, in free code."

bravo!

By: KirbyMeister

KirbyMeister — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:21:01 +0000

Lessig - could you have at least used Windows Media streaming? At least totem can decode THAT.

By: J.B. Nicholson-Owens

J.B. Nicholson-Owens — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 05:31:27 +0000

It seems ridiculous to call someone names for paying attention to their software freedom. This "pig" is going to "squawk" by pointing out that GNU didn't become a viable alternative by caving into whatever someone wanted to distribute to us. Perhaps we ought to focus on multimedia formats we can all use because they're implemented with free software; you know, walk the talk.

The Vorbis, FLAC, and Speex audio codecs are available on all the OSes people use these days. They're high-quality and they are robust. I suspect that Theora (a video codec licensed for everyone to use for any purpose in perpetuity) will join this list when Theora can be decoded in real-time on more low-end computers. Currently, Theora players run on variants of GNU and Microsoft Windows.

By: J.B. Nicholson-Owens

J.B. Nicholson-Owens — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 05:08:01 +0000

ryanmeehan: Yes, you're missing the distinction between free as in price and free as in freedom. It's unfortunate that the English language ties both of these disparate concepts together in the same word. Most other languages don't do this. Some use the phrase "free as in speech, not free as in beer" to make it more clear which definition the speaker is getting at.

The free software movement refers to a program as "free" for a user when that user may inspect, run, share, and modify the program anytime, anywhere, with anyone, for any reason. See the definition of free software for more on this and check out the FSF's philosophy section for essays on various aspects of why free software matters. The FSF is the Free Software Foundation, the organization that wrote the most important free software license—the GNU GPL.

So, even though one doesn't have to pay money to run Apple's QuickTime software, one is not free to inspect it, share copies of it, modify it, or distribute modified versions of it. Hence, Apple's QuickTime software is not free software, Apple's QuickTime is merely zero priced proprietary software. One might be able to get Apple's QuickTime to run via some emulation software, but that in no way addresses the lack of software freedom which is at issue here.

As an attempt to bring this into context on this blog by namedropping a relevant name: Prof. Lessig is on the FSF board and he works with some FSF folks as Director of the Software Freedom Law Center.

I hope this helps answer your question.

By: Tom Barger

Tom Barger — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:59:03 +0000

I didn't say you could run QuickTime on Linux. Jeez. I respect Ken Waagner, and I wouldn't snag his video stream. But once having captured a steam, whether the source is Real or Windoze, whatever, then one can "make available" in BT, Dvix, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG 4, PSP Video 9 etc. Glad to accomodate our customers.

The only things I consider to be free and clear are CSPAN shows of Congressional hearings.

Lessig himself is a Apple laptop user, so I wouldn't be casting doubts on his interest in remixing media in a painless way using QuickTime. Hopefully we won't be hearing anymore PowerPoint jokes.

Again, this was a cool show. Hope to see it available for time-shifting.

By: lessig

lessig — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:42:01 +0000

Ken Waagner of Wilcoworld.net, the genius behind most of the Wilco web saavy, is going to make a full range of formats available, including a bittorrent (which I'll be serving from my prodigem acc't). So patience, please. These guys are giving free content. And as soon as they can, in free code.