scary 2014
Tuesday, June 7th, 2005there’s a pretty scary movie called epic available online. it presents its own version of the distribution/availability of information in the year 2014. (8 mins)
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yellow umbrella
Friday, May 27th, 2005i was at a yellow umbrella concert yesterday night. just wanted to say they make great ska music and the concert was awesome. and micha turned out to be a great dancer 
buying music vs the evil music industry
Monday, March 14th, 2005my personal conclusion to my previous post is to buy as much music as possible (as much of the music i buy) from finetunes.net. they represent most of the smaller german labels, offering downloads in 192kbit MP3 or OGG Vorbis without any digital restrictions management (DRM). this way i’m not paying any money to the major (evil) labels, instead i support (yet) less popular artists, who hopefully get a fair share of my money. (as opposed to the majors, where most of the money goes to the labels)
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
as golem.de reports, the german music industry has now demanded to extends the copyright protection for music to a 95 year period (now: 50 years). they justify their claim with other countries like th U.S. having a longer copyright period already, many artists would be losing their protection.
As mentioned in an earlier post about lawrence lessigs book free culture - how big media uses technology and law to lock down culture and control creativity., the only reason for the music industry to demand longer copyright protection is to control as much of thecultural production as possible, to protect their established industry.
The chaos computer club has now started a campaign (german) asking people to stop buying music from the major labels. The music industry has missed the information age train, and is now using the money from CD sales to file law suits against users of file sharing networks and advertise campaigns against sharing music, using false statements to scare p2p users.
Tags:problem based learning
Thursday, February 24th, 2005this article has some interesting ideas on learning, focussing on problem based learning (active) vs. teaching (passive)
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