3 Achievements(?) : All In 1 Day
1 : Zeropage initially released its tracks under CC by-nd-nc. Their tracks are really cool. I specially liked Ambient India. So, I talked to them, and asked them if they could remove the nd-nc clauses, and indeed they did.
It’s under CC by-sa now. :))
2 : I asked pornophonique. to release their videos in OGG format. Kai stunted me saying “this wmv-stuff is quite a pain in the ass, i know!”. But they didn’t know how to convert the videos, so I suggested then ffmpeg2theora. But it seems they didn’t have time for it, so Kai has asked to me convert the videos and share it for them
. I will do that as soon as possible.
3 : Antaragni is a cultural festival organized by IIT Kanpur (of course only students organize everything). Students from all over India comes and participate in this event. This time, antaragni has flash page. The flash used the song “Right Here Right Now by Fat Boy Slim”. Of course I knew that they don’t have license to use this song. Even in IITK, people don’t know that there is something called “copyright” and there is something called “license” and “piracy” is illegal. So, anyways in IITK.MISC newsgroup I raised this issue, and they had to remove the song.
. Since the flash is not sounding cool without music, so I suggested them to one of the songs Jamendo offers. I mainly suggested them “Steep”, “Bradsucks”, “pornophonique” (yes, pornophonique’s songs are under ND clause, but they said, they will give permission very easily), “terremoto”, “Josh Woodward” and now I have told them about “Zeropage” as well. I am hoping that they will take my advise. ![]()
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Come to think of it, iit people should take piracy and breach of copyright more seriously. this time antaragni guys did it. last time it was hall2.
Comment by Nitin Munjal — October 9, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
Some people think that piracy is a fight against copyright, but thats not very true. Rather these software companies and music industries are using piracy to promote their copyrighted stuff. They are strict in developed countries. In developing countries they want to make market and hence support piracy for normal people, and in official purposes people anyways go for legal things, so industry earns anyways.
Piracy may harm these industries in short run, but in long run they are well-off. If not today, tomorrow India has to enforce IPRs, and at that time people will be forced to buy Windows and Metallica, because they are addicted to it, and they don’t know about other solutions. Like the movie “Page3″ said, “to change the system, to have to be in the system.”. And so we have to follow rules.
Comment by rohitj — October 9, 2007 @ 10:56 pm
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