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[Brian Reilly]

Is there any way to get a hold of the video of Lessig's speech without using
coral? Coral is a rather unusable technology, with files and sites
frequently offline. I really can't be bothered checking in several times a
day until the file happens to be up again. Is there somewhere else it can be
downloaded from?

On 9/20/06, Janet Hawtin <lucychili at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It depends what your focus of humane is Ingmar.
> There are many projects which have this goal but approach it from
> different perspectives. This speech by Lawrence Lessig communicates
> well what the free software and free culture people are aiming for:
> http://www.linuxworld.com/events/keynotes/lwsf06-lessig.html
>
> I am Janet Hawtin.
> I live in Adelaide Australia.
> I train people in using ubuntu which is a free (liberty)
> software distribution (linux)
> http://www.ubuntu.com/community
>
> This last week we had software freedom day world wide.
> http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams
>
> This day is a celebration of free as in liberty software.
> This software enables people all around the world to
> be able to use and to contribute to the development of free software
> and to access information and share ideas.
>
> There is also a free culture student group called freeculture.org
> http://freeculture.org/
>
> Both groups are interested in having information and computing and
> culture accessible and not controlled by specific companies.
>
> These groups are opposed to the DMCA and EUCD which
> defends rights for large IP owning corporations at the expense of
> basic freedoms for people around the world.
>
> It also protects large pharaceutical companies and makes it possible for
> them
> to protect their patents on treatment for AIDs, causing millions of
> people to die because they are not allowed to access cheap generic
> versions.
> The medicines sans frontieres group is posting about that.
>
> Many of these intellectual property laws sound harmless initially but
> their
> impact is wide and will be very limiting for people who share and
> collaborate.
> These are rights which are not based on public benefit.
>
> There are a lot of people trying to change these pressures on
> our freedoms and I'm sure that the german teams would love to hear from
> you.
> http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/germany.
>
> If computing based humanity isnt your cup of tea no problem.
> There is much need for humane perspectives in all our endeavours and I'm
> sure
> you will find communities which are interested directly in the things
> which
> are important to you.
>
> We certainly appreciate the great work that you contribute to the
> campaign wiki.
>
> Cheers
>
> Janet
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