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• On the post: Dear Permission Culture: This Is Why No One Wants To Ask For Your OK

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2012 @ 11:14am

  Re: This.

  So, does that mean that your copyleft movie is *still* proprietary and privative? And how long must we wait until the songs go into the public domain?

• On the post: The Warehousing And Delivery Of Digital Goods? Nearly Free, Pretty Easy, Mostly Trivial

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2012 @ 09:53am

  Re: Re: Approaches zero

  OK, the initial costs are actually rather large. But, on the large scale, the costs are lower than physical alternatives, require much less resources to maintain, and have an extremely larger deployment area thanks to the Internet. In short, it may not be exactly zero, but it's very, very, VERY cheap compared with alternatives.

• On the post: The Warehousing And Delivery Of Digital Goods? Nearly Free, Pretty Easy, Mostly Trivial

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2012 @ 09:30am

  Re:

  A medium-quality microphone: $100. A good (GNU+)Linux distribution: Almost free if downloaded. A decent computer: Less than $1500. Internet and CDs: Under $20. Using sites like Jamendo, Libre.FM or the Internet Archive to host the songs: Almost free for both sides. Promoting the album: Word-of-mouth is free, ads are really cheap (under $10 per month), and social networking does wonders. All in all, almost anyone can make a successful album with a month's salary. And the cost can be easily recovered (and even multiplied) if those meager costs are crowdfunded beforehand!

• On the post: Taiwan Denies Use Of 'Pirate Party' Name Because People Might Think They're Actual Sea-Faring Pirates

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2012 @ 08:16pm

  What about Kopimi Party?

  If the name Pirate Party rubs them the wrong way, why don't they use an alternate name? The Communist Party did it all the time. What about, let's say, the Kopimi Party?

• On the post: Amanda Palmer Raises $1.2 Million On Kickstarter, And The Crowd Goes Wild

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2012 @ 08:35pm

  Copyleft or it didn't happen

  Fine, more music free to download! But still, there is no word on whether this album will be free to share and remix. Could someone tell me whether Palmer intends to embrace copyleft or not?

• On the post: Musician Wonders What It Would Take To Become An Open Source Musician

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 16 May, 2012 @ 03:16pm

  What about CCMixter?

  What about CCMixter? It's pretty much exactly what he talks about: someone uploads the song (with or without stems), someone else remixes it, and the remix links back to the original stems. It's awesome and I've used it more than once.

• On the post: Bonus Sunday Post: Help Dan Bull Get His New Freely Distributed Song On The Charts

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2012 @ 05:32pm

  CC-BY-SA or it didn't happen for me.

• On the post: Too Much Copyright: This Generation's Prohibition

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2012 @ 09:10pm

  Better safe than sorry

  And that's why I try to read works by authors dead before January 1st, 1912 (since the longest copyright term in Earth is life+100 years - better safe than sorry). Or else, works by authors that *continually* use CC-BY-SA or "higher".

• On the post: Polish Government Funding 'Full Set Of Educational Materials' Available Under CC-BY

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2012 @ 09:43am

  If I only knew Polish...

  If I only knew how to speak Polish, the first thing I'd do would be to translate the books and host them in Wikimedia Commons, then adapt them to my country, then print some and convince some teachers to use it. All thanks to the CC-BY license.

• On the post: Why The 'Missing 20th Century' Of Books Is Even Worse Than It Seems

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2012 @ 12:29pm

  Fact: I wrote about a similar topic yesterday

  Go figure, yesterday I wrote a blog-post (in Spanish, but I can translate it) about how the public domain has become untrustable: https://azkware.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/por-que-el-dominio-publico-se-ha-vuelto-inconfiable/

• On the post: Plankhead Discovers The Most Effective Anti-Piracy Technique: Public Domain Dedications

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2012 @ 12:57pm

  Fact: I offered to translate YFIAS to Spanish

  As a matter of fact, I offered to translate Your Face Is A Saxophone to Spanish. The subs are ready and the dubs (yes, the dubs!) are in casting phase. If this series weren't free to translate, who knows whether someone would have tried to subtitle it, let alone dub it.

• On the post: Free 3D-Printable Kit To Connect Different Toy Construction Sets Released — But Partially Blocked Due To Patents

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2012 @ 09:36am

  Re: Re: FUCK?

  In a way they did think about the children, now the acronym is SUCK.

• On the post: Free 3D-Printable Kit To Connect Different Toy Construction Sets Released — But Partially Blocked Due To Patents

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2012 @ 07:28pm

  Non-free, I'll pass

  The problem is that the printable kit is itself nonfree with its noncommercial restriction. I may almost bet the restriction was imposed to prevent the big businesses it's crossing over to raze the project with their sue cannons, but still I consider both sides to be in the same category.

• On the post: Band Tells Fans To Boycott Its Albums, Saying Its Label Doesn't Pay

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2012 @ 09:52am

  Best moment to give them the Copyleft Talk

  Now that the band is boycotting its usual distribution ways, someone with good knowledge should convince them to switch their music to CC-BY-SA or better.

• On the post: Would You Rather Be 'Right' Or Realistic?

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 28 Feb, 2012 @ 05:30pm

  Well this explains the Black March

  If it?s not available under 100% your terms, you have the free-and-clear option of not having it.

  
  
  And still some ask why are some people organizing the Black March.

• On the post: How To Turn A Legitimate Buyer Into A Pirate In Five Easy Steps

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2012 @ 05:25pm

  Re: Re: But still...

  A well indoctrinated consumer would promptly purchase a cable subscription.

• On the post: How To Turn A Legitimate Buyer Into A Pirate In Five Easy Steps

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2012 @ 04:25pm

  But still...

  But still... why didn't he purchase an HBO subscription like a moral-compliant person?

• On the post: Thomas Jefferson: Original Remixer

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2011 @ 11:37am

  Re: Remix?

  Deist, actually. He believed in the concept of a superior entity, it's just that he just thought that religions had a wrong conception of it. Thus his culling of supernatural details off the Bible.

• On the post: First Grader Investigated For Sexual Harassment For Kicking A Bully In His Private Parts

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2011 @ 02:44pm

  Is common sense dead?

  Is common sense dead?

  
  
  Well, taking into account that:
  
  - Killing Michael Jackson has a lighter prison punishment than singing one of his songs in a video without forking $100000 to the RIAA
  - The US government can (and will) arrest political dissidents indefinitely without trial, legally
  - Bailouts are being given to banks but not to householders
  - Excluding any person from any activity for any reason (even if it's common sense to imply that said person has a convincing reason not to take part from said activity) is slowly being redefined as discrimination
  
  ... yes, the common sense has long died in the US. Perhaps they can import some from - oh, so it's dead overseas too?

• On the post: TSA Decides Terrorists Must Be Driving; Partners With Tenn. Law Enforcement To Randomly Search Vehicles

  

  Carlos Solis ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2011 @ 06:16pm

  Re: The Progression

  And to think that Richard M. Stallman has been doing that all of his life - and advocating us to do exactly that (no joke, just check his website).

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