- Time
- Post link
Moth3r wrote: "I was amused to hear you'd sent copies of the DVD to Microsoft and Lucasfilm!"
The ideas behind this project are a win-win for just about everyone, but only if there's some appreciation for even just a small part of it. There are some hurdles, A. making the system which can cut-up the video (ok big hurdles), B. getting permissions from copyright owners to reuse the footage and C. prooving that someone will watch something like this.
I can't do A. so I sent copies to those who could. Looks like my cover letter wasn't interesting enough. How many blind letters/DVDs do they get at these big computer companies... so. FAIL. fine. B. can be solved if C. works, in my opinion. So i'm attemtping to put this in front of the eyeballs of whom ever might have a passing interest. Maybe with the idea of repurposing video to be more informative will cooerce someone to make the 'A.' system. which could reproduce much of this DVD.
With the system in place, it's a no-branier for copyright owners to put their material into the system, even if they choose to do it behind hulu-like places, which are feeder/steamers. ...and conversely open source people have proven through films like RiP "A Remix Manifesto" (http://www.ripremix.com/) that the opposite works too.
And at that point the searcher wins, they can filter out the clutter for the specifics.
In the shorter term, for a company like Lucasfilm, if people do chose to watch something like this, it's gotta be an eye opener that they could create their own dedicated pay on-demand cable channel and working with the media owners who are willing to play along, play literally anything which references SW. In a few years, LFL will have a lot of recent content of their own which can be accentuated by brief commercial like breaks which contain the type of clips which ended up in tBSWM. The ephemeral bull shit which can pile up into something significant culturally speaking.
I understand why LFL didn't keep the disc, (general policy of returning all quote/unquote creative material) but it does say 'Public Domain' several times (on the cover, on the disc) so they didn't have to worry about stealing the ideas.
I found the 1-CD AVI rip on Demonoid; I don't expect the quality is up to much - squeezing nearly three and a half hours down to that size - but if it helps get more people interested in the project then it's all good.
Yeah, really neeto, and the quality is acceptable sorta close to the mp4 on the FAQ website. Turns out the guy had gotten it from usenet, but couldn't find any info on the project and felt people might want to see it. So he put it up. Fantastic. I've been researching but haven't nailed down the process, but I want to send letters to the downloader's ISP to congratulate them. (the reverse of the Cease & Desists letters which downloaders usually get) I've put up the I.P. addresses on the website and if any of them come forward (if the mailing address is close to the ISP location), i'll send them a copy.
The other good news that word is slowly sorta spreading. blueyoda at faneditforums wrote the second full review (link'd in the FAQ) really nailed down many of the issues of the disc, paints the overall picture really well. And the SWEroticaForums (although discussion was limited) showed that someone was willing to pick out a chapter and put it on their blog/forum, ie focus on a specific.
Trailer 2 is the unanimous winner from all fronts. (well all 4 of you) Plus China just revoke the necessity of the Green Dam censorware, (it'll still be on all computers, just not defaulted on) so trailer one's main joke is no longer relevant:
http://www.crn.com/software/217900033;jsessionid=3UNT253TOFYNUQSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN
Few more ideas/surprises to process through, we'll see if I can get to them before my window of opportunity closes. Thanks for the comments.
none / %20