The Open Content Project.

I have not updated this blog in a while, and I thought that now was a good time to start, just as I embark on something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I have been getting rather pissed off at all the stories of the MPAA/RIAA suing the crap out of the fans of their work, and I am going to test something.For one month, starting July 19th 2010 I am going to only consume content licensed under a permissive licence such as Creative Commons or the GNU GPL. This means;

All music I download will come from sources such as http://jamendo.com/

All video I watch will either be freely available (Youtube) or permissive licensed, coming from sources such as http://vodo.net/.

There will be no deviation, no one TV show I have to watch, no one film I must watch, no music I must listen to, for one month I am going cold turkey.

I will also be trying to consume the content in the most open ways possible, for example using formats such as OGG and WebM. I am exempting Flash from the rules simply because so much content is shown with it.

I will be doing this for one month, and at the end of every single day I will post an update on what I found that day.

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