So I’m leaving you with some UNKLE.
You got somethin’?
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
Youtube is doing a quite phenomenal effort in dealing with copyright infringement these days, summarized here:
“In those cases, we try to give people options when they receive a copyright claim. Instead of automatically blocking videos, we give uploaders the choice to dispute the claim (in the case of Fair Use, for example), use our AudioSwap tool to replace the track with one from our library of pre-cleared music, or to replace the video with a new version with no sound.” #
The article, from which that quote is taken, covers a lot of the same ground as what Flickr is facing, and despite the fact that it may not be easy for Vidal to get his video back up, or even get Viacom to tell him what exactly it violates, at least the video wasn’t simply deleted from his account. If only others — and by others I specifically mean Flickr, though I know that Vimeo shares this approach — would do the same instead of blanket deleting everything with no option for recovery.
For the first time in four years, I’ve let my flickr pro account expire, as I still haven’t heard anything back regarding the copyright infringement case from support, despite my best efforts at getting in touch with someone — anyone — who can tell my just how they can defend having deleted images that shouldn’t have been affected by the copyright claim from Lucasfilm.
Four years, and I can’t even get an answer out of them? I know I sound like a broken record, but I’m just flabbergasted that I’m unable to even get a ‘Hey Mike, got your mail, I’ll get back to your asap and I hope this isn’t causing you too much grief’-mail.
I mean, is it really worth it for Flickr that I bitch and whine about this here, on twitter and even in real life? That I can’t conciously recommend Flickr to anyone anymore without adding a ‘but, you should also know that…’.
I love flickr.
This sucks.
After years, I’ve finally uploaded these fanastic Homeworld 2 cutscenes.
A reader of mine — whose name has been lost in time — ripped them for me a long time ago. And by pure luck, he couldn’t find the dialog audio files, which are streamed separatly from the score and ambient soundtrack. The result, is an almost abstract series of beautiful aesthetic-centric science fiction vignettes that seem to have no purpose, other than to be cool and awesome.
It’s like science fiction porn that way; just enough story to support what we came to see… Something something desert world, something something starships… I get it.
Now, my Youtube skills are weak, and I can’t figure out how to retain the quality of the original files, so if you’re so inclined feel free to download the originals yourself.
I fell head over heels in love with Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon when I read the first chapter online. And I ordered it right then and there and tore through it when it finally arrived a few days after from Amazon. It remains one of my all-time favorite books to this day.
“I am fascinated,” I insisted, “That’s the problem. I am suffering from fascination burnout. Of all the things that are fascinating, I have to choose just one or two.”
- Neal Stephenson, Anathem, hardcover edn, Atlantic Books, 2008, p. 733.
It is really quite a miracle that Francis Ford Coppola managed to sneak THX 1138 into the seven-picture deal with Warner Brothers that launched American Zoetrope (a deal that also included Apocalypse Now and The Conversation). Even if the screenplay is slightly less abstract and dense than the film, it isn’t exactly light reading.
It’s not that I don’t want to say anything; I just don’t have anything to say. I’m sure I’ll get around to it soon enough.