Class #22

A small addendum to the previous class about copyright and how we are all headed for jail (where you can enroll in my prison crafts course and learn how to make wallets from cigarette packages). One of my blogging friends posted this definition of copyleft.

Also in recent pirate news from the CBC:

"A Calgary man is believed to be the first person convicted in Canada under new movie pirating legislation when he pleaded guilty to the unauthorized recording of the Johnny Depp movie Sweeney Todd.

Richard Lissaman was arrested in a northeast Calgary theatre last Dec. 21 making an illegal copy of the movie.

The 21-year-old pleaded guilty on Friday, was fined $1,495 and banned from movie cinemas for a year.

Other stipulations for his one-year probation include being banned from purchasing, owning or possessing any video recording equipment, including one on a cellphone.

"We would have liked to see jail ... however, this is a good start," said Virginia Jones of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association."

The article goes on to tell us that a rep from Paramount Pictures in Hollywood came to the Calgary courtroom to read a victim impact statement. (Perhaps he wept.)

Anyhoo, onwards:

In case you were wondering why I didn't show you much early net art, it's because MOST OF THE LINKS ARE DEAD. (with the exception of the awesome Olia Lialina, who always keeps her links alive). Also Potatoland who we looked at last class: http://potatoland.com/landfill/ And this link is alive and kicking in more ways than one: http://www.easylife.org/netart/catalogue.html

Further onwards:

Brilliant use of 3D graphic glitches: http://maxpaynecheatsonly.jodi.org/index.html

and: http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/

http://www.tgad.com/tgad2001/gb/gb-index.html

http://dura.cell.free.fr/home/swf/arms12.swf

http://tex-server.org/

http://jonrafman.com/

http://www.blownupblowup.com/

IMPORTANT INFO ON ASSIGNMENTS:

Tuesday the 25th is my last class with you, not the 27th as we assumed earlier. On the 27th there will be another class in the lab so some of you won't have access to a computer.

I am told that the lab will be opened on Friday the 28th from 8:30 until 4:30 for students who need to complete work. (the new tech guy who's name is not-Paul will be there)

You can email your final projects (browser pages) to me on or before November 29. Because you are sending them to me, TEST THEM OUT ON YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS. That means email your browser pages to a friend's system and make sure that the page opens and appears as you intended.

For the rest of the class period, check out the puppycam WHILE YOU WORK

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