Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

medium for carrying. sound but also political and social content. An
even more outstanding. case in this respect was the censure of the
DeCSS source code. (Descrambling Content Scrambling System) the
industry code. protecting the DVD standard. After a sentence
forbidding its. 'publication' one of the many alternative channels
became an MP. file (decss.mp) in which a voice synthesizer 'sings' the
code.. Initially the piece was available as an unpublished track in a free.
space on mp.com and then removed by the company since according to.
offensive or inappropriate'.. The effectiveness of these operations lies
in finding technical. mechanisms which are perfectly legal and which
although they cannot. be attacked show how backward the procedures
of institutional. protection are. Another conceptual hacking is
'Dictionaraoke' a real. stroke of genius consisting of a collection of
over one hundred pop. classics from the past thirty years sung in perfect
artificial. English. The 'Snuggles' a group of fans of Negativland
hosted these. tracks in which the original lyrics are sung by the
pronunciation. tools of the widely used English dictionaries and
encyclopaedias. found online. In 'Don't go breaking my heart' for
example there is. a duet between the 'voice' of Merriam Webster
OnLine and of. Microsoft's Encarta Online. All the tracks are
noncopyright in free. download and in mp format. The whole thing not
only enables a better. understanding of the lyrics but also provides
valuable instructions. on how to assemble other tracks by oneself by
using this mix of. technologies. This putting together and interfacing
different. techniques thus makes it paradoxical that the operation cannot
be. attacked legally and opens another window onto the overall.
understanding of the uselessness of copyright as currently applied.. It is
the strategic key for the growth of contemporary culture ready. take
back the heritage of music which belongs to it.. Linklist. References. ()
Barlow John Perry. 'The Next Economy of Ideas' Wired . Oktober. ()
O'Brien Jeffrey M. 'Would You Download Music From This Man'.
Wired . May. () Lessig Lawrence 'The Future of Ideas' Vintage. ()
berraschung die NapsterFilter funktionieren nicht. () Leopoldseder
Hannes Schpf Christine 'Minitasking' in. 'Cyberarts ' Hatje Cantz
Publishers. () Hultkrans Andrew 'U Can Sue Sample Simon' Mondo
Issue. () Gans David 'The man who stole the Michael Jackson's face'.
Wired . February. () Toop David 'Oceano di Suoni' Costa e Nolan.
March .. Alessandro Ludovico. distributed via no commercial use
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