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The DMCA 512 safe harbor provisions are a piece of legislation intended to, “[limit] the liability of the providers of on-line services for copyright infringement by their users(1).” EFF reports this law has been used maliciously to (temporarily) ... [More] remove official John McCain campaign videos from YouTube. Essentially, anyone claiming to own the rights to a particular [...] [Less]

I should post my travel plans more.  On Monday I’ll be in Birmingham, Alabama visiting a friend before driving up to do a panel at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference in Atlanta on Tuesday.  Holler.

If you’re interested in remix culture, digital activism, copyright, open tech, open access to knowledge, and/or free software, then come to the Free Culture Conference. It’s all going down this Saturday and Sunday (Oct 11th & 12th) at UC Berkeley. Just make sure you register right now — the conference has limited space and was recently [...]

You may have noticed that there haven’t been a lot of big updates to Miro or the Miro Guide recently. Don’t worry, it’s the good reason, not the bad one– we’re building major updates that are getting close to launch. First you’ll see a totally revamped Miro Guide, then you’ll get Miro 2.0 [...]

In less than a week, Comcast will officially implement their 250GB bandwidth cap. It’s no surprise that they’re the first massive US service provider to pull this move in the home broadband market — two factors are significant: first is the pooled structure of their network.Second is the fact that Comcast is, first and [...]

After the exciting news about Firefox supporting Theora, the open video codec, I wanted to follow up with more good news. This is kinda geeky stuff, but it’s very important in regards to openness in video. First, Dirac, the BBC’s experimental open video codec, recently reached version 1.0. The latest version of VLC will play Dirac, [...]

Many folks have probably already been notified of the 1.2.7 update via the Miro auto-updater. That said, Linux users don’t get those automatic notifications — and there have been some really great updates on Linux! Among the most exciting are ... [More] improvements to the gstreamer renderer. You can download the correct version (Ubuntu, other distros, [...] [Less]

We’re working on a pretty cool system for detecting HD video, which has presented us with a small math challenge. It’s nothing too crazy, but we thought it’d be fun to see if anyone was up for helping us figure it out. If you’d like to help with this algorithm, drop a comment here and/or contact [...]

As many of you know, the Participatory Culture Foundation is a 5013c non-profit organization — a media reform project. A fundamental part of our mission, and the reason we make Miro, is to spread openness in online video. For many, it’s not clear what Open Video actually is — here’s what it means to us: [...]

Friend of Miro, Amy Goodman, host of the progressive news program Democracy Now!, was arrested yesterday at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Two of her producers were violently arrested before Amy rushed to the scene and was also taken in and charged. They have since been released, but none of the charges [...]