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23/04/2006
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Tuesday 24/1 Stitch and Split invites you to take a look at the future of digital television, not from the utopian everything-is-possible-the-world-is-your-oyster sales strategy, nor from the purely artistic angle. But, what if Hollywood decides what you watch, when you watch it and how many times? If it determines the size and form of your family? But what is a family? What if you, as a public, no longer have free choice to decide what you want to watch when, even if the bills have been paid? Sciencefiction, you say? This sciencefiction writer opens up your eyes and sets your telly on the screen of the future. 19.30 Don't let Hollywood hijack your rights American entertainment companies say they're fighting piracy, but they're going at it by punishing the innocent to get at the guilty. A pan-European digital-television restircitons proposal will turn the studios from companies that can control copying of movies into companies that can control the design of all DTV devices, that get to define how big your family is allowed to be, that get to take away all the rights you get under copyright law and sell them back to you, one painful, expensive dribble at a time. It's not really a business plan: more like a urinary tract infection. Europe's coming Broadcast Flag will ban open source for DTV, break the devices in your living room, and turn you into a truly captive audience. Get your torch and pitchfork, for this genuinely sucks -- and you shouldn't take it lying down! Cory Doctorow is a science fiction writer and a contributor to the famous weblog boing boing. Until very recently, he was the European representative of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an international organization battling to protect the rights of web surfers everywhere. Doctorow's novels are available under a creative commons licence. They examine wireless societies, life in Disney World, and how you can survive in a non-scarcity economy. The Artwork in the Age of its
Mechanical Reproducibility An attempt to illustrate the complexity and difficulty around author rights and posession, in this era of digital reproduction. Inspired by the essay by Walter Benjamin with the same title, also influenced by the activities of the Situationists. + 20.30 Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985, 131', UK
To round up this evening, it was inevitable that Cory Doctorw chose this film by Terry Gilliam.
Listen to the audio of the lecture presented by Cory Doctorow: MP3 or OGG Antwerp independent radio Radio Centraal sent their Webgang reporter to interview Cory Doctorow, after his lecture. Indymedia Belgium also asked some questions. The Series Stitch and Split in Antwerp kind of finishes here and will end in the Kino Eye festival: 21, 22 and 23 april 2006 in MuHKA_media. More news soon!
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