Have a break? from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo.

namely YouTube…and completely fails in amazing own goal, so blogger writes blog about it embedding the video. It’s a bit gory so might not be great if you’re eating your tea (or a KitKat) but really, I never understood why Nestle puts oil into it’s chocolate anyway, making it more like chocolate-flavoured margarine (ugh) otherwise euphemistically known as ‘milk chocolate’ (hence the big battles with Europe to ‘protect’ a pretty foul confection from those ‘interfering Eurocrats’ when I’d rather have nice proper real Belgian choccy anyday).

And what does this mean? Nestle SA owns the copyright on anyone eating a chocolate bar on YouTube? There’s an evil megacorp spot just waiting to be filled when EMI dies, Nestle do you want to fill that hole (just like your chocolate doesnt?)

Anyway this is beside the point; despite trying to ’spike’ the news with a fairly poor ‘well we did anyway a while back but have no proof’ PR flop like trying to ban this video, destroying Indonesian (or any) rainforest for a chocolate bar is not on – you can complain/find out more at Greenpeace’s excellent – and far more infringing, Killer indeed – site.

Oh and Nestle – keep on like this…hopefully you’ll go the way of EMI and take your foul chocolate with you…

Great new video from Dan Bull ‘Home Taping is Killing Music’.

BTW the subject line comes from this graphic which I did for a Second Life t-shirt or an LJ avatar 3 years ago originally, it seems to have spread *ahem Jeb* so here you can have it at higher res

Known about this for a long while but finally got a flyer etc: Bootie London! A one-off, with The Kleptones, A&D, the Bootie Berlin Mashia and DJ Payroll DJing at Cargo on the 9th April…I’ll be there, definitely. And am planning to meet up with A&D beforehand too. It’s interesting cos last time they were here I asked them if there would ever be a Bootie London – and got a coy response…and now they indeed return with a special Bootie London.

And it looks like most, if not all of the UK Mashuperati will be there…

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Yup Radio Clash has made it onto Google Books via Spin, July 2005 I’m already sort of on there (2 pages) of my ‘Make a Mashup’ chapter of Podcasting Hacks.

Yay! Go me! The 15 minutes was so fleeting but at least it’s documented online…just call me “Tim” LOL.

You might have noticed the little Electronic Frontier Foundation and Open Rights Group banners that have been at the bottom right of this blog for years…why do I support them? Well for one, although I’m not in the States I support the EFF because currently they are fighting for you and I to be able to do video mashups and post them legally to sites like YouTube without getting those infantile (as Lessig pointed out in my last post they do treat you like you’re in school, the Myspace ‘copyright quiz’ is even more offensive) DMCAs.

Also I support them because they are fighting the likes of Apple and co. who are creating anti-competitive closed systems and thus being usually bad for the consumer (AppleVangelists and ‘Geniuses’ should read their rather damning revelation of the AppStore legals that Apple doesn’t want you to see – All Your Appz Belong To Uzz indeed) and fighting DMCA and ACTA which is probably behind the evil Digital Economy Bill, and fighting for free speech and net neutrality online.

Open Rights Group does a similar job but with a UK/European stance – there are things EFF can’t/won’t touch that are specifically UK (the aforementioned DEBill for example, ORG has been campaigning about that). It’s a double handed attack, because what may go down in the US could pop up here, and vice versa. They also cover CCTV and ID card and other security worries where technology is possibly going to infringe on civil liberties and privacy – things that are more specific to the UK.

Pirate Party is also getting bigger here in the UK, I’m a member there too, although not been as involved as I’d like.

So whether you’re a mashup DJ, video remixer, developer, interactive artist, musician, web designer or just concerned about security and the (mis)use of technology and laws around it, I strongly recommend punting some money and support over to EFF and ORG, amongst many others…because they really are fighting for the digital freedoms you currently enjoy.

/soapbox out.