Trusted Computing (a must see short movie)

Here’s an interesting thread :

What does TCPA mean for Linux ?
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=153950

The user stoeptegel posted a link (to a torrent) to a movie called “Trusted Computing”. IMHO everyone should download and watch this movie. The movie is legally free to download and it’s about 50 mb big. It’s definetely interesting to watch for geeks and non-geeks alike.

Ubuntu has a bittorrent client installed so you only have to click on the link and open the torrent file with bittorrent. The torrent is availabe from legaltorrents right here :
http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/trusted-computing.torrent

More information about the movie (from legaltorrents.com) :

[ANIMATED, ANTI-DRM, SHORT] ‘Trusted Computing’, a Creative Commons-licensed animated short film by Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel, deals with the concept of the eponymous DRM solution, arguing that, perhaps, it isn’t such a good idea after all. As Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing says, this is ‘a high-level overview of the philosophical problems with the technology. Run, don’t walk [to see it].’

More information about trusted computing :
http://www.againsttcpa.com

www.legaltorrents.com also has (legally free) torrents of “Go Open” which is a tv series about open source software which was sponsored by Mark Shuttleworth.

About http://www.legaltorrents.com :
LegalTorrents is a collection of Creative Commons-licensed, legally downloadable, freely distributable creator-approved files, from electronic/indie music to movies and books, which we have made available via BitTorrent – we (concept/updates – simon c., bandwidth – joe/tommy, logo – tony kinglux) are also hosting a ‘guaranteed’ high speed seed for them. Everyone that grabs the BitTorrent client and downloads helps contribute more bandwidth, because BitTorrent utilizes your unused upload bandwidth. Again, please note that all of the current torrents are made available under a Creative Commons license with the full permission of the rights holder. Oh, and here’s our RSS feed.

On a related note : Members of European Digital Rights (www.edri.org) have joined forces to defend civil rights in the information society. www.bof.nl is the dutch member of edri.

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