Down With DRM Video Contest Winners Announced!
October 13th, 2006 by Elizabeth Stark
Freeculture.org is pleased to announce the contest winners for our Down With DRM video contest. We had a lot of great entries, and want to thank *all* of the participants for their submissions. They’ve all contributed greatly to raising awareness in the fight against DRM.
And the winners are (in no particular order):
CC License: BY-SA
Available on: YouTube, Archive.org
Legally Bound by Ami Goff
CC License: BY-SA
Available on: YouTube, Revver
Interchangeability by R. Clayton Miller
CC License: BY-SA
Available on: YouTube, Mpeg4
Anti-DRM Animations by Daniel Oeffinger
CC License: BY-SA
Available on: YouTube, Quicktime Format
Available on: YouTube, Quicktime Format
Trusted Computing by Benjamn Stephan and Lutz Vogel (Lafkon)
CC License: Sampling Plus
Available on: YouTube, Archive.org
The winners will all receive a Neuros OSD digital video recorder. Thanks again to Neuros for providing our wonderful prize and to Defective By Design for the support!
So check out the videos, rate them, and send them to your friends to help put an end to DRM.
October 13th, 2006 at 5:44 am
Err… what-s free culture.org doing publishing videos in Flash player
that you can only watch if you install secret proprietary software on your computer?
You know, we can stream video in other formats - or at least show a few sample frames
andgive the option to download it!
Thanks!
October 13th, 2006 at 7:09 am
[...] Freeculture.org, the site that conducted the Down With DRM video contest has announced the winners of the competition. [...]
October 13th, 2006 at 8:47 am
to martinwguy:
You actually CAN download the videos. Check out the links below the videos.
October 13th, 2006 at 8:49 am
martinwguy, I was thinking the exact same thing…why are these videos only available in Flash…I know the technical reason but it is just poor judgment…there are no excuses.
October 13th, 2006 at 10:50 am
ummm…. “Trust is the personal believe”? You may want to fix that Benjamn Stephan and Lutz Vogel.
October 13th, 2006 at 11:28 am
[...] For my money that’s the best of the winners of the FreeCulture.org contest to produce anti-DRM video. So elegant. [...]
October 13th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Unfortunately Flash has become the de-facto standard for video over the internet. Some people don\’t like, much less understand, file formats, and expect video embeds when they watch their content. We don\’t like it either, but in terms of reaching the biggest audience, we figured it was our best option.
That said, we tried in every case to get an unecrypted/unembedded version of the file posted somewhere. Look for links to Archive.org, QuickTime, or Revver, which all offer relatively less-restricted versions of the videos. We\’re also in the process of converting the videos to Ogg Theora, the free video format.
Thanks for taking a look!
Fred
October 13th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
[...] Apparently a competition was run to create some videos showing the effects of DRM on your life. The results are here: http://freeculture.org/blog/2006/10/13/contestwinners/ [...]
October 13th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Freeculture is an educational site. It’s designed to show people WHY free culture is both important and beneficial.
The first rule of education, and even effective communication in general is to speak in terms your audience can understand. You Tube/ flash is something that is widely adoped, and ‘just works’ for most people, most of the time. Expecting this, or any other site dedicated to persuasion and education to not use these tools out of some misguided ideological principle is… well… not very bright.
Their target audience doesn’t understand the value of OGG or other open standards, and are not already adherents of open source thinking. They may be curious, even open to the idea, but if they can’t see the shiny videos without spending an hour or more installing software they’ve never heard of, most are going to leave without ever understanding what you are all about.
Put simply, you don’t put up barriers to people that want to know more about what you have to teach. They are here, so they are at least curious. You don’t make it HARDER for them to begin to understand the issue. This isn’t about moral superiority, or purity - it’s about teaching people to see the value of open culture, and if Flash and You tube are the best ways to get people to think about the issue, then you use them to start the conversation. As noted above, they have made sure to provide ‘ideologically safe’ links for those who already have moral or religious objections to flash, but they are smart enough to know that if that’s the only way to see them, the people that need to see them won’t.
To put it in terms that might be easier to identify with, think of yourself wanting to attend a lecture series to see what it was all about. How would you react if they stopped you at the door and told you you weren;t dressed correctly… that you had to wear white cargo shorts, a green ringer tshirt and a red tie - otherwise you just couldn’t come in. And if you do make it through the door, the lecture will be conducted completely in late Classical Greek and Middle English because the subject is better discussed in those dialects. How likely would you be to stay and try to learn about it? Now imagine what you would think if the lecturers were puzzled about why more people didn’t understand the principles they were espousing.
October 14th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Actually we left it up to the creators to post to the video sharing site(s) of their choice, and it just so happens that YouTube is currently the market leader, so everyone ended up posting their videos there. As you can see, for each video, we also have a shareable version. So please do download, remix (CC!), and send to your friends.
October 14th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
[...] Me quedo con este vÃdeo de entre todos los ganadores: [...]
October 17th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
[...] A associação FreeCulture.org anunciou recentemente os vencedores do concurso “Down with the DRM” (Abaixo a DRM - ou em português, Gestão de Direitos Digitais (GDD). Os três primeiros estão especialmente bem concebidos mas todos demonstram em geral uma grande criatividade. Para ver e partilhar! Legally Bound, Ami Goff (licença CreativeCommons-Attribution-ShareAlike): [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 11:37 am
[...] The Anti-DRM Video Contest winners are out…many of the videos are good, but I have to thoroughly recommend this one, which made me smile and then frown with no discernible time in-between. Yay timewarp media. [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
[...] In conjunction with the International Day Against DRM the FreeCulture.org site held a competition for the best ‘Down with DRM’ video. The results were released today. Nothing like a little righteous indignation to get your day started, huh? [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
[...] Algunos ya los habíamos visto. Puedes verlo en la página que dedica Free Culture a presentarlos en un orden aleatorio. Me quedo con éste titulado Legally Bound de Ami Goff: [...]
October 18th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Free Culture da a conocer a los vídeos ganadores de su concurso anti-DRM…
Ya se pueden ver los videos ganadores del concurso anti-DRM en la página oficial Free Culture, enlace en el título de la noticia. Via: http://despuesdegoogle.com/2006/10/19/free-culture-da-a-conocer-a-los-videos-ganadores-de-su-concurso-anti-drm/...
October 18th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
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October 20th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Are you going to contact us about getting the OSDs to the winners? I haven’t heard anything, so just send me an email with instructions jborn at neurostec…
October 28th, 2006 at 12:27 am
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October 28th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
You can watch youtube videos without flash player and can even download them from the CLI without going to youtube.com at all. youtube-dl is a python script that allows you to enter the URL as an argument and will download the .flv file, which can be played with mplayer. All open-source and I haven’t had a problem yet.
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February 11th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Very Very beautiful videos… i hate DRM but when try to explain to my friends with few words not all of them can understand what I’m talking about. But images can be simpler and meaningful for many of them… thanks to those people who have realized the videos…
hope you can understand my English ;o)
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