1. WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT (2 mins)

[CONTEXT & QUESTIONS]

-- 'Preferences' 'Production of affect' --- the necessity of changing what is produced, consumed and distributed over P2P

-- Conflict --- What is the site of conflict? What do we expect? \

[PROJECT]

-- V2V

-- A group project (LIST)

--- A set of syndication standards and naming protocols that uses metadata to make independent media available over user-built infrastructures

-- Geneva03 ... The Shivers of Sharing

2. CONTEXT & STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS (5 mins)

- Discussions yesterday

-- tenability of commons vs. proprietary spaces

-- the necessity of 'protecting' commons (the hardware layer)

Our assumption: free as in zero cost is a given: it cannot be removed.

But free as in zero cost does not equal free as in free minds, free as in at liberty.

The problem: how to address the imbalance of content 'preference' in 'autonomous' media infrastructures.

3. PROJECT (10 MINS)

PRECEDENT & CONTEXT (5 MINS) as Eben pointed out distribution is an amateur activity

....looks at elements the advances in social and software technologies that have enabled the emergence of film-sharing.

-- Portals: www.sharereactor.com

-- Checksums (p2plinks, bitzi etc.) www.edonkey.com, www.bitzi.com

-- Partial Download Sharing

-- Multiple Source Downloads

-- Swarm downloads http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/FAQ.html

-- example of bit torrent portal www.torrentse.cx

-- previous attempts at video sharing www.mediajumpstart.org

-- existing portal for the distribution of independent works over ftp (limited political genre) www.ngvision.org

-- likewise but limited to artistic genre Open Video Archive (http://ova.zkm.de/)

-- attempt to commercialize p2p infrastructure for independent film www.transmissionfilms.com (operated by the developers of Overnet/Edonkey)

3.1 V2V (5 MINS) others: others

- Appropriates the release structure from Warez groups - Establishes of the basic network of ftp servers to spread initial load - checksums

a. Ring of FTP servers

b. Running P2P clients

c. metadata format. size, length, license, genre, title, creator

d. format VP3 - better quality xiph, theora

divx - lighter

e. license share alike will make available options for those who want to distribute but not allow recombinancy

f. rss feed

g. independent portals working on the same infrastructure

h. community infrastructure for feedback and the provision of mutual aid Users and producers prod-users (community edit)

...where the gift is concerned, goods circulate in the service of ties. Any exchange of goods or services with no guarantee of recompense in order to create, nourish, or recreate social bonds between people is a gift. We intend to show how the gift, as a form of circulation of goods that promotes social bonding, represents a key element in any society. Jacque Godbout

This is not the vulgarized reputational accumulation of Eric Raymond

this is social norms

law

bring users and producers closer together

19 media collectives, talking to producers, film festivals etc.

h(2) legal consequnces of legitimate uses (transmission films)

i. no-one portal: curated portals with different emphases

j. not open publishing

k. polymedia distribution in other formats such as cds/dvds packaged with books and magazines showings in local halls

l. sustainable user-constructed infrastructure which scales according to demand - avoids problems of dependency upon external funding that drives process people into either professionalization or institutionalization

The Model:

- Appropriates the release structure from Warez groups - Establishes of the basic network of ftp servers to spread initial load - Creates space for release groups of different types to then proliferate on the secondary layer - Uses BT so as to overcome some of the free-rider problems - Employs more traditional p2p networks to expand persistence

& - Integrate collaborative media software to allow feedback to those who made the work and to facilitate knowledge exchange between enthusiasts - Include voluntary payment mechanisms so as to provide revenue to the producers - Provide a license engine so as to allow specification as to what constitutes fair use. - Finds a way of providing useful metadata from the vantage point of both users and producers - Potentially offers a media for the establishment of real world screenings by individual or venues.

& - Co-ordinate maintenance of hard archives - Combines virtual delivery with distribution in other formats through inclusion with books and magazines, feed for television, independent cinemas etc.

-- DEMO

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3.2. GENEVA03

Explain project

Shows technological conditions can allow liberty of expression to be performed

And this suggests an ultimate site of conflictual