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?
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Janet Hawtin</b> <<a href="mailto:lucychili@gmail.com">lucychili@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">It depends what your focus of humane is Ingmar.<br>There are many projects which have this goal but approach it from
<br>different perspectives. This speech by Lawrence Lessig communicates<br>well what the free software and free culture people are aiming for:<br><a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/events/keynotes/lwsf06-lessig.html">http://www.linuxworld.com/events/keynotes/lwsf06-lessig.html
</a><br><br>I am Janet Hawtin.<br>I live in Adelaide Australia.<br>I train people in using ubuntu which is a free (liberty)<br>software distribution (linux)<br><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/community">http://www.ubuntu.com/community
</a><br><br>This last week we had software freedom day world wide.<br><a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams">http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams</a><br><br>This day is a celebration of free as in liberty software.<br>
This software enables people all around the world to<br>be able to use and to contribute to the development of free software<br>and to access information and share ideas.<br><br>There is also a free culture student group called
<a href="http://freeculture.org">freeculture.org</a><br><a href="http://freeculture.org/">http://freeculture.org/</a><br><br>Both groups are interested in having information and computing and<br>culture accessible and not controlled by specific companies.
<br><br>These groups are opposed to the DMCA and EUCD which<br>defends rights for large IP owning corporations at the expense of<br>basic freedoms for people around the world.<br><br>It also protects large pharaceutical companies and makes it possible for them
<br>to protect their patents on treatment for AIDs, causing millions of<br>people to die because they are not allowed to access cheap generic<br>versions.<br>The medicines sans frontieres group is posting about that.<br><br>
Many of these intellectual property laws sound harmless initially but their<br>impact is wide and will be very limiting for people who share and collaborate.<br>These are rights which are not based on public benefit.<br><br>
There are a lot of people trying to change these pressures on<br>our freedoms and I'm sure that the german teams would love to hear from you.<br><a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/germany">http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/germany
</a>.<br><br>If computing based humanity isnt your cup of tea no problem.<br>There is much need for humane perspectives in all our endeavours and I'm sure<br>you will find communities which are interested directly in the things which
<br>are important to you.<br><br>We certainly appreciate the great work that you contribute to the<br>campaign wiki.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Janet<br>_______________________________________________<br>Campaigns-l mailing list
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