Original poster: morgandawn

Note: the_reel  is looking for vid review volunteers.

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

• • Convention News
• • Con: Third Annual Winchester Convention - WinCon 3 - Vid Show
• • Cons: Start vidding for the Escapade vid show!
• • Cons: Vidukon - Con Report

•    Intellectual Property/P2P News
• • IP: Futurama's Anti-Piracy Message, Just Do It
• • IP: "Three strikes" P2P rule inches closer to law in France
• • IP: 5 Biggest Music DRM Debacles of All Time
• • IP: A decade of the DMCA: keep the Safe Harbor, ditch the rest
• • IP: New technology that allows content owners to profit from piracy to get a high-profile test this month at MySpace & MTV
• • IP: Canadian wish list for secret ACTA treaty long, varied
• • IP: China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites
• • IP: Conservative Party of Canada Musing New Copyright Policy
• • IP: Copyright Alliance to Supremes: hit rewind on networked DVR
• • IP: Defiant, BitTorrent and NZB Sites Fight Back Against Intimidation'
• • IP: Duke's new P2P policy won't stop RIAA lawsuits
• • IP: Ex-MPAA and IFPI Anti-Piracy Enforcer Shot Dead | TorrentFreak
• • IP: Fair use group comes up with classroom copyright primer
• • IP: Filtering failure: Belgian ISP gets reprieve from court
• • IP: Guns n' Roses uploader to plead guilty, may not enter jungle
• • IP: IFPI Abandons "3 Strikes" Model for Danish File-Sharers
• • IP: Innocent UK Gamers Collateral Damage in P2P War
• • IP: ISP Level Anti-Piracy System Neutralized By BitTorrent | TorrentFreak
• • IP: Judge calls out RIAA lawyers for bankrupting families
• • IP: Judge Rejects 'Making Available' Defense, Orders Teen File Sharer to Pay RIAA $7,400 | Threat Level from Wired.com
• • IP: Lawyers Forced to Drop P2P Wireless Defense' Case
• • IP: MGM first to post full-length features to YouTube
• • IP: New MPAA copyright enforcers
• • IP: Online Piracy Becomes a National Sport' in France
• • IP: P2P Weekly Wrap Up
• • IP: Pirate pride in Sweden as Pirate Bay hits 22 million peers
• • IP: Recording Industry Takes Down BitTorrent & NZB Sites |
• • IP: Techdirt: Who Will Be The First Person Sued For Copyright Infringement Over Lifecasting?
• • IP: UK Music Groups Launch Super Anti-Piracy Coalition
• • IP: UK retailers remind us that MP3 alive, legal, and compatible
• • IP: Warner Bros. to fight China movie piracy with 60¢ downloads
• • IP: Why I Copyfight
• • IP: YouTube nabbed another of my vids - Real Slim Shady

•   Meta
• • Meta: Editing Tricks and Treats
• • Meta: Fair use and scholarly vidding
• • Meta: Fandom is very like Judaism in a lot of ways.
• • Meta: Link to a Vidding Documentary and a Vid Poll about WMM.
• • Meta: List of LJ vidding comms updated
• • Meta: The Reel - Seeking staff for November & December 08
• • Meta: this one's for my fellow vidders
• • Meta: Vidding documentary is now online!
• • Meta: Vidding Is My Fandom!
• • Meta: vids and the technical definition of narrative
• • Meta: vids and the technical definition of narrative: addendum
• • Meta: writing about vids for a film studies audience

•   Technical Questions
• • Tech: JaneDavitt - Possibly/probably dim question
• • Tech: Jumpy Render in Vegas
• • Tech: Premier Pro cs3 problem
• • Tech: Sony Vegas 6: Is there a way to resize the video?
• • Tech: WMM Survival Guide: or, I'm Sharing my WMM Tips - Want to Join In?

Original poster: morgandawn

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

Original poster: morgandawn

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

• Convention News
• Cons: Eastern Media Con 2: Convention report

• Intellectual Property/P2P News
•   IP: "Orphan Works" copyright reform fails in wake of bailout bid
•  IP: 'Orphan Works' Copyright Law Dies Quiet Death
•  IP: Artists See a Future With BitTorrent
•  IP: AT&T, NBC lump piracy in with spam, malware as net pollution
•  IP: Bands pressing major labels for control over copyright, more
•  IP: Big Content gloats as Bush signs PRO-IP Act
•  IP: Bush Signs Draconian Anti-Piracy Law
•  IP: Bush signs RIAA-backed intellectual-property law
•  IP: CopySense Sleek Predator, or White Elephant?
•  IP: Cox Disconnects Alleged Pirates from the Internet
•  IP: Cox enforces acceptable use policy, lies to its customers
•  IP: European Parliament - judges must be involved before ISPs implement 'three strikes" disconnect
•  IP: Fewer people downloading music illegally
•  IP: Georgia Negotiates With Internet Movie Pirates |
•  IP: IP bill passes Senate, no civil enforcement power for DoJ
•  IP: Judge forces U of Oregon to cough up student data to RIAA
•  IP: Key senators oppose DRM, ISP filtering in secret ACTA treaty
•  IP: Legal Bullying Continues for Icelandic BitTorrent Tracker
•  IP: Lessig's Free Culture' Now Available with DRM
•  IP: Movie licensing group to Irish preschools: pay up!
•  IP: Muxtape
•  IP: New Lobbying Group Calls for Internet Filtering
•  IP: New Zealand's copyright minister starts screaming when asked whether it's fair to cut people off from the Internet
•  IP: News Site Criticized for Linking to Pirate Bay Torrents
•  IP: Norway gives Apple deadline to open up FairPlay DRM
•  IP: Norway Mulls Anti-Piracy Complaint Board' Proposal
•  IP: Oh Boy, BlueTunes, This Looks Like Trouble To Me
•  IP: Real sues to ensure legality of RealDVD disc-copying app
•  IP: Royalty rate stays same for iTunes, other download services
•  IP: Senate unanimously passes RIAA-backed bill |
•  IP: Slacker Uprising BitTorrent Takedown Sent to DNS Provider
•  IP: Sony Urges ISPs to Cooperate Against Piracy
•  IP: Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection -- only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM
•  IP: Walmart: Walmart Changes Mind on DRM, Keeps Servers Running
•  IP: Warez Scene Member Gets 3 Years Probation, $2000 Fine
•  IP: Why I Don't Celebrate The Thomas Ruling
•  IP: YouTube and Audio Compression
•  IP:Australian ISPs offer US advice, smugness, on net neutrality

•  Meta Discussions
•  Meta: Discussion: interpretative dahnce, dahling!
•  Meta: First Vids/Sunday Vid Chats
•  Meta: How To Make A Literal Vid (Tutorial)
•  Meta: I gained much insight into vidding
•  Meta: Kinda I want to (XFiles video) : kelleyeskridge.com
•  Meta: one of the things I like about vidding is that the average person has the control
•  Meta: Vid it : kelleyeskridge.com
•  Meta: Vidding chat: Defining vid genres and narrative styles
•  Meta: Vidding chat: Planning vids
•  Meta: What makes a competent vid?
•  Meta; what kind of quality want or expect in a downloadable vid

• Technical Chat
• Tech: better organization for my favorite vids.
•  Tech: Burning "pando" files to dvd
•  Tech: Green Screening Process
•  Tech: Linux Vidding: DVD ripping for idiots
•  Tech: Linux Vidding: Software setup on Fedora 9
•  Tech: Mac Format conversion question
•  Tech: Magic DVD Ripper - Tutorial (Vidding tutorial, PC)
•  Tech: Media Player Glitch?
•  Tech: Only part of video exports from IMovie HD
•  Tech: Sony Vegas
•  Tech: Switching over to Vista
•  Tech: Using Linux to Edit Fan Videos
•  Tech: Vegas effect
•  Tech: WMM Problems...Again.

Original poster: deathisyourart

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

• Convention News


• Cons: EMC1 (2007) Vid show - Slash


• Cons: EMC1 (2007) Vid show


• Cons: EMC2 STILL wants your vids!


• Cons: Looking for a Few Good SPN Vids...


• Cons: Vid recs needed for Vidukon TV Super Heroes vid show


• Con: CreaCon 2008


• Cons: Vidders: A Poll!


• Cons: VidUKon is taking premieres vids !


• Cons: vidukon: Participate to the faces of VidUKon/Vidding Montage :

• IntellectualProperty/P2P News


• IP: European Parliament Says No to Three-Strikes Law


• IP: Lionsgate Copyright Nazis Foil Legit Promotional Effort " Adrants


• IP: RIAA rejects damage award, forces trial, looks hypocritical


• IP: Customs Officials Arrest 14 Year Pirate | TorrentFreak


• IP: Lights out for Usenet access through Comcast


• IP: ISP: It's Impossible For Us to Stop Illegal P2P | TorrentFreak


• IP: New royalty agreement leaves Internet radio out in the cold


• IP: Uganda Sued for Pirating its National Anthem | TorrentFreak


• IP: OiNK Six Appear in Court, Faced By Pirating Police


• IP: Secret ACTA treaty emerges blinking into the sunlight


• IP: No licence for police


• IP: Dutch copyright group cracks down on Web sites


• IP: DoJ to Senate: don't make us be Big Content's copyright cops


• IP: Bush administration opposes RIAA-based copyright bill


• IP: Thomas verdict overturned, making available theory rejected - RIAA loses


• IP: Police Arrest Wanted' P2P Pre-Releaser


• IP: Linking to P2P Downloads Confirmed Legal in Spain


• IP: Stop the RIAA from using the Department of Justice to do its dirty work


• IP: Comcast loses P2P religion, goes agnostic on throttling


• IP: Sliding clips?


• IP: Warez Scene Member Sentenced to 18 Months Jail


• IP: MediaDefender Secretly Sells Porn to P2P Users


• IP: RIAA pot calls kettle black over "vexatious" legal tactics


• IP: Is the internet out of control? - Telegraph(-)


• IP: Court Rejects Motion by Rocket Software to Dismiss CA's Claims of Copyright Infringement and Trade


• IP: Pirate Bay Cuts off Press Relations


• IP: Copyright bill blasted as "enormous gift" to Big Content


• IP: Will anti-DRM protests hurt Spore?


• IP: NBC and Apple are back in tune


• IP: Internet law - Evan Brown - Subpoena to university in P2P case must give time to notify parents v10


• IP: Study Says Intellectual Property System Should Die


• IP: You can share files, not jail time: P2P admin gets 18 months


• IP: OiNK Admin Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud


• IP: OiNK Uploaders Charged with Copyright Infringement


• IP: Bogus anti-Scientology DMCA notices sent to YouTube linked to Wikipedia user


• IP: Fans and Copyright Issues


• IP: Who Owns Ideas? CBC's Ideas radio documentary on copyright - Boing Boing


• IP: BitTorrent Tracker Admin Jailed for 18 Months


• IP: Comcast pays $150K to put end to Florida bandwidth cap probe


• IP: 80% of artists would get <€30/year from copyright extension


• IP: Anti-Piracy Scam Emails Target BitTorrent Users


• IP: Another $40,850 goes into the RIAA's copyright infringement coffers


• IP: Moore Pulls a Radiohead; New Movie to Be Distributed Online for Fre


• IP: Danish File-Sharers Not Responsible For Wi-Fi Theft


• IP: 'Warez' Pirate Gets 3yrs Probation for Copyright Infringement


• IP: Phone phishers hop on filesharing legal threats bandwagon


• IP: isoHunt Sues the CRIA to Legalize BitTorrent Sites


• IP: File Sharing Lawsuits at a Crossroads, After 5 Years of RIAA Litigation | Threat Level from Wired.com


• IP: Contentious copyright bill would die with election


• IP: UK P2P warning letter pact "smells very funny to us"


• IP: UK ISPs Hand Over Details of Several Thousand' Pirates


• IP: Comcast sues FCC, wants P2P throttling order overturned


• IP: Furious Author Cancels Pirated Book


• IP: Michigan law passed requiring MediaSentry to have PI license


• IP: Album leak welcomed by Metallica


• IP: A City Tries to Stop a Woman from Linking to Its Website: Why Most Challenges to Links Will Not Succeed...


• IP: P2P traffic drops as streaming video grows in popularity


• IP: Japan to legalize MADs? That's mad! (anime music videos)


• IP: Now Hollywood is chasing UK downloaders - and getting it wrong

Meta Discussion

• Meta: Those of you who enjoyed my interview with Francesca Coppa about the vidding subculture


• Meta: Vidding chat


• Meta: Calling All Vidders and Vid Watchers! A Poll!


• Meta: Aca-Fen Raise Their Banners High: Transformative Works and Culture


• Meta: Francesca Coppa's new article on vidding in TWC


• Meta: Music on/in television; aesthetics of video decay


• Meta: vid_critics comm and forum


• Meta: I don't think vidding is apolitical


• Meta: T:SCC Samson and Delilah — A Vid By Any Other Name " 21st Century Geeks


• Meta: Salieri, Part Two


• Meta: As a vidder, I'm feeling like Salieri.


• Meta: This blog is a project for Dr. Steven Jones' English 395 class in Textual Studies and New Media.


• Meta: fanvids are a bit like conversations in a foreign language.


• Meta: Vidding meme


• Meta: vidding collaboration - a cynical way to dominate the fandom


• Meta: Yet another vid meme!


• Meta: Vidding meme


• Meta: Hello *waves* vid meme


• Meta: I'm an open book. An open vid? An open vid-book-ish-thingy-majig


• Meta: Non-VVC vid recs, VVCish vid thoughts, Bascon, etc.


• Meta: Vidders' Block


• Meta: this is secretly about vidding.


• Meta: Supernatural Roundtable - Ask the Vidder(-)

• Technical Issues


• Tech: I can't vid using AVI source footage


• Tech:any vidders who need/want my After Effects help?


• Tech: If you must . . . Xilisoft DVD ripper (fan video tutorial)


• Tech: Vidding Question! - After Effects Tutorials


• Tech: Avisynth and animation? + Sony Vegas 8 for ~$130 + SH


• Tech: If you have a video file encoded in 23 fps


• Tech: Vidding Tutorial


• Tech: Attempting AviSynth - can't load my aviscript thing in VirtualDubMod


• Tech: Adobe Premiere Help


• Tech: Trouble with Vegas Reading My Files


• Tech: Premiere Pro CS3 and AviSynth


• Tech: Premiere 2.0 - can't open project


• Tech: Lossless Video Compression + Vista


• Tech: Fun with Vegas


• Tech: Adobe Premiere effect - trying to find a effect for a flashback/dream sequences


• Tech: Alternative to WMM?


• Tech: Problem with Premiere Elements

Original poster: morgandawn

We'd like to give deathisyourart a special thanks for compiling the last Meta newsletter.

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

• Convention News
• • Cons: BASCon vidshow suggestions?
• • Cons: Call for Proposals - Azkatraz (a Harry Potter academic convention, San Francisco 09)
• • Cons: European Vidding Convention
• • Cons: Harry Potter Convention Azkatraz Programming: Suggestions?(-)
• • Cons: Mad Vidder Extraordinare! - Musings about Future Fun - Seattle Vid Show
• • Cons: Vividcon 08 - One Stop Shopping Playlists & Panel Notes (links to convention reports at the bottom)
• • Cons: Winchestercon: Vid Show Reminder(-)

• Intellectual Property/P2P Issues
• • IP: A victory for fair use? | Technology | Los Angeles Times(-)
• • IP: A way to assign copyright globally |
• • IP: Acoustic Band Utterly Depends' on Piracy
• • IP: Adware on Pirated Movie Sites Raises Legal Questions
• • IP: Battling pricy textbooks with open-source texts, social media
• • IP: British Government Caught Pirating On Prime Minister's Website
• • IP: Comcast
• • IP: Comcast to limit customers' broadband usage - Yahoo! News
• • IP: Comcast to slow down heaviest 'Net users to DSL speeds
• • IP: Comcast vs. BitTorrent, What's Next?
• • IP: Disney's rights to young Mickey Mouse may be wrong - Los Angeles Times(-)
• • IP: DMCA Takedowns and Fair Use
• • IP: Editing program for Ubuntu 8.04?
• • IP: EU pays for, then ignores study on copyright extension
• • IP: FCC Order scolds Comcast for changing story on P2P blocking
• • IP: FCC to Comcast: You have 30 Days
• • IP: Game Makers Plan US-Style Copyright Assault Against 25,000
• • IP: Indiana Gregg to Beat Pirates with Music Download Site
• • IP: IOC Wants Olympic Torrents Off The Pirate Bay
• • IP: It's official: Comcast starts 250GB bandwidth caps October 1
• • IP: Just Because TPTB Says Something Doesn't Mean They're Right (Part Billionty)(-)
• • IP: Latvia's Largest BitTorrent Tracker Shutdown, Admins Arrested
• • IP: Local Sharing Saves Bandwidth on BitTorrent/P4P Tests
• • IP: Media Companies Making Peace With YouTube(-)
• • IP: Michael Geist: ISP Notice and Notice - No Penalty for False "Take Down" Notices
• • IP: MPAA Waffling on Piracy Costs; RIAA Says Illicit CDs Worth $13.74 Each
• • IP: Music, movie lobbyists push to spy on your Net traffic
• • IP: Noel Gallagher of Oasis Speaks Out on Piracy
• • IP: Northwestern fighting campus P2P use with... e-mail?
• • IP: Qwest's Unofficial 250 GB Data Cap
• • IP: Required Reading for "User-Generated Content" Sites: Io Group v. Veoh | Electronic Frontier Foundation(-)
• • IP: RIAA confirms it's behind the Muxtape shutdown
• • IP: RIAA v. U: the state of P2P file sharing on campus
• • IP: RIAA wins P2P case after defendant reformats hard drive
• • IP: RIAA's Anti-Piracy Trade Agreement Wishlist
• • IP: RIAA, MPAA Converging on Political Conventions |
• • IP: Study: DRM a major barrier to e-textbook adoption
• • IP: The Pirate Bay Appeals Italian Blockade
• • IP: TinEye image search helps ferret out copyright ripoffs
• • IP: Transcoding Is Not A Crime, Says Court In Veoh Porn Case
• • IP: Trial Against The Pirate Bay Delayed
• • IP: US gaming biz skeptical of RIAA-style antipiracy tactics
• • IP: Veoh Safe Harbor ruling could help YouTube in Viacom battle
• • IP: Verizon: we need freedom to delay P2P traffic when necessary
• • IP: What Second Life Can Teach Us About Content Thef
• • IP: What Would the Perfect Streaming Music Service Look Like?
• • IP: What? Noooo! Muxtape Has Been Shut Down By The RIAA

• Meta Discussions About Vidding
• • Meta: - Vidding notes(-)
• • Meta: an absolutely fantastic vidder forum, Foolish Passion,
• • Meta: Ask the Vidder - astartexx
• • Meta: Dr Who writer Paul Cornell production blog links to fan vid
• • Meta: Forum discussion - How do vidders view the role of music in the vidding process?
• • Meta: Go, go Godzilla!(-)
• • Meta: Henry Jenkins on fanfiction, transformation, OTW, and the vidding documentary
• • Meta: Homophobia in the Vidding Community(-)
• • Meta: I LOVE VIDDING *SO MUCH*.
• • Meta: In fannish news(-)
• • Meta: Is there such a thing as vidder's block?
• • Meta: Media Fetish: The Vidshow! - Brown University, April 2008
• • Meta: that thing called vidding
• • Meta: The Anime Collective: Baka Deshi Productions - Music - LA Weeklypage 1 - LA Weekly(-)
• • Meta: This was part 2 of the vidding experiment.
• • Meta: Thoughts on Race and the Vidding Community(-)
• • Meta: vid analysis - LithiumDoll's "I Ain't Scared of Lightning"
• • Meta: vid critics forum
• • Meta: Vidding Chronicles(-)
• • Meta: vidding COCs
• • Meta: Vidding: On Metaphors And Musing And Flying And Dimensions
• • Meta: what do we want from vids' and 'where are vids going'
• • Meta: XFiles Producer's Blog Talks About Vidding

• Technical Chat
• • Tech: AviSynth for the Mac? Sort of...
• • Tech: Can't import clip into IMovieHD
• • Tech: converting vob to avi - audio problem
• • Tech: HandBrake Question
• • Tech: I hope all my fandoms come out in Bluray one day!!
• • Tech: iMeem question: audio doubled at end of vid
• • Tech: Making fan videos on your Mac: Mac vidding for newbies(-)
• • Tech: Open Source Kisses
• • Tech: question about change in vid size
• • Tech: Quicktime compression issue
• • Tech: Still having this problem...Windows Media
• • Tech: Tutorial - Fixing interlacing in MPEG Streamclip.
• • Tech: Vidding on Linux

Original poster: deathisyourart

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

• Convention News


• Slashcon 08 Round-up

• IntellectualProperty/P2P News


• IP: MediaDefender Walks The Plank to Bankruptcy


• IP: EFF Tool Hunts BitTorrent Throttling ISPs


• IP: Reactions to FCC's Comcast decision come fast and furious


• IP: Targeting Campus Piracy, Bill Passes US House


• IP: Anti-Piracy Lobby Gains Power Over Internet Subscribers


• IP: MPAA: Don't limit our ability to close analog outputs


• IP: What if Apple stopped issuing DRM keys?


• IP: Fannish Guide To Legal Notices: C&D Letters/Take Down Notices Oh My!


• IP: Groklaw - 88% of YouTube is New and Original Content, Professor Says


• IP: Cablevision's remote DVR does not directly infringe


• IP: Cablevision wins on appeal: remote DVR lawful after all


• IP: Air Force cracks software, carpet bombs DMCA


• IP: Judge in Jammie Thomas P2P case sounds open to retrial


• IP: 5 Ways to Improve DMCA Safe Harbor


• IP: "DVR as a Service" Isn't Copyright Infringement


• IP: Free Just Wasn't Cheap Enough for Radiohead Fans


• IP: YouLicense Gets $1 Million For Online Music Licensing


• IP: University wants cease-and-desist order for MediaSentry


• IP: iTunes Stashes Your Name in DRM-Free Downloads | Gadget Lab from Wired.com


• IP: Bell Canada puts squeeze on ISPs with usage-based billing


• IP: Piracy could put film industry out of business, warns group


• IP: 2 IP addresses, 40 matches: Tufts tries to cut RIAA driftnet


• IP: EFF Supports TorrentSpy in Electronic Privacy Case


• IP: Youtube Blocks Upload Fan's BSG Vid


• IP: Australian ISPs Still Rejects Idea of Becoming Copyright Police


• IP: ISPs Still Reject Idea of Becoming Copyright Police


• IP: When the ghosts of songs equal copyright infringements


• IP: The Record Industry's Digital Distribution Plan (TotalMusic) Comes Back From the Dead


• IP: Cablecos ponder networked DVRs in wake of Cablevision ruling


• IP: YouTube and Sharing: Competing Business and Cultural Models in the Digital Era


• IP: The Pirate Bay Blocked in Italy


• IP: Judge: RIAA damages too high in innocent infringement case


• IP: Free advertising for The Pirate Bay: Italian ISPs block site


• IP: Prototype Anti-Piracy Tool Revealed and Taken Offline


• IP: Tackling College Piracy: The P2P Quiz


• IP: RIAA Pays $107,951 to Alleged Filesharer


• IP: McCain tech policy: crack down on piracy, fix patent mess


• IP: Government to increase online copyright penalty tenfold


• IP: Olympic committee rethinks copyright infringement claim on YouTube


• IP: Tackling College Piracy: MPAA and RIAA's Favorite


• IP: New magazine-sharing site escapes copyright laws abroad


• IP: Pandora Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last Stand'


• IP: Copyright crusaders to launch cyber campaign


• IP: "Functionally voluntary" music may lead to blanket licenses


• IP: RIAA, KaZaA user settle 3-year-old lawsuit for $6,050


• IP: IOC Wants Olympic Torrents Off The Pirate Bay


• IP: Texas Court Tells RIAA That it Can Claim Damages But Less Than it Wants


• IP: Evolution of DRM: streaming services use unencrypted MP3s


• IP: U2 Tracks Leak After Bono Plays Stereo Too Loudly


• IP: YouTube user sues Google for his slice of the traffic


• IP: Copyright crusaders to launch cyber campaign


• IP: Federal Circuit Confirms Key Free Software Licensing Practice


• IP: Is this the future for legal P2P?


• IP: UK IP Office seeks harsher copyright infringement penalties


• IP: It's official: File sharing becomes a crime without punishment in Germany


• IP: Olympics, YouTube, Protest, Copyright


• IP: Why the Open Source Ruling Matters


• IP: IDC Canada: ISP peer-to-peer fears are a Boogie Man


• IP: RIP Pandora? The music industry keeps killing itself


• IP: "Functionally voluntary" music may lead to blanket licenses


• IP: Usniff, Torrent Search Made Easy


• IP: Who Sues the ‘WATCHMEN’? FOX and WB in Legal Battle


• IP: The Cost of Bogus Copyright Claims: BT Wins Motion for Attorneys' Fees


• IP: huge and important news: free licenses upheld


• IP: Evolution of DRM: streaming services use unencrypted MP3s

• Meta Discussion


• Meta: Fans, fair use, and transformation


• Meta: Critiquing Vids


• Meta: reflections on my year in vidding


• Meta: Perfect Harmony "We're still here!"


• Meta: Perfect Harmony "Vidding Glossary"


• Meta: Ponderings about vidding


• Meta: IBARW: vidding COCs, and vidding POCs


• Meta: Vid blather


• Meta: Pardon my French, but "SCREW YOU", Viacom!


• Meta: Imaginary Vidding?


• Meta: Oh, right, this is why I do this!


• Meta: A critic's guide to feedback


• Meta: Fair Use and Music(-)


• Meta: linkage: meta, and a vid rec


• Meta: Itty Bitty Titty Committee fan trailer contest.


• Meta: How do vidders create their vids?


• Meta: Thoughts on Race and the Vidding Community


• Meta: Digital Ethnography


• Meta: Reviewing an academic paper on vidding


• Meta: Vid analysis - LithiumDoll's "I Ain't Scared of Lightning"


• Meta: Tips/Tutorial for Music Vidders


• Meta: That thing called vidding, Fall 2008 tv


• Meta:Vidding Questionnaire


• Meta: Size of downloadable vids


• Meta: Vividcon is Joy


• Meta: Vividcon!!!


• Meta: Con report: vividcon 2008


• Meta: Vividcon!


• Meta: VividCon: Premieres (Part One)


• Meta: VividCon: Premieres (Part Two)

• Technical Issues


• Tech: Making moving masks like this in Sony Vegas 6 ?


• Tech: Voiceovers to echo


• Tech: Another AVI + Vegas post


• Tech: MPEG and Vegas 8


• Tech: exporting in adobe premiere pro


• Tech: Confused newbie - aspect ratio


• Tech: Can this effect be re-created in Vegas 6?


• Tech: DVD ripping and converting to avi - problems with audio tracks


• Tech: DVD Shrink help


• Tech: Final Cut Studio compatible with Leopard?

Original poster: morgandawn

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

• Convention News
• • Con: Vividcon Icons!!!
• • Con: The Vividcon 2008 designs are up at CafePress!

• IntellectualProperty/P2P News
• • IP TorrentSpy Appeals, Pirate Bay Knights
• • IP: "Italy's...Pirate Bay" forced offline.
• • IP: 'Simple' Copyright Table
• • IP: A new paradigm for copyright law: Shifting the focus to the user | The Industry Standard
• • IP: AT&T Says It Will Cut Off P2P Wireless Users; But What About Pandora Users?
• • IP: AT&T, DirecTV back MPAA's DVR-blocking initiative
• • IP: Avril Lavigne's $2 Million YouTube Payday: Not Coming Soon
• • IP: Band Leaks Track to BitTorrent, Blames Pirates
• • IP: BitTorrent Users Seek Compensation from Comcast
• • IP: Book Rec For Fans - Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity
• • IP: Bound by Law: Copyright Comic
• • IP: Canada seeks industry, not consumer input on secret treaty
• • IP: College funding bill passed with anti-P2P provisions intact
• • IP: Comcast Illegally Interfered With Web File-Sharing Traffic, FCC Says
• • IP: Content Industry Could Learn From eBay Seller Turning A Profit With Public Domain Content(-)
• • IP: Digital preservation and copyright law
• • IP: Digital Sliderule Makes Copyright Law Dead Simple [Copyright]
• • IP: DRM In Mexico
• • IP: DRM still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it
• • IP: EFF Opposes MPAA's Selectable Output Control FCC Petition | Electronic Frontier Foundation(-)
• • IP: EU plans to extend musicians' copyright protection
• • IP: Experts attack Big Content's EU copyright power-grab
• • IP: EZTV Introduces BitTorrent Video Streaming
• • IP: Google Knol - Google's Latest Attack on Copyright
• • IP: Google to screen YouTube videos for copyright 
• • IP: Hammer drops at last: FCC opposes Comcast P2P throttling
• • IP: How long should music copyright be?
• • IP: IP: Paul Simon sues Japanese clockmaker for using song
• • IP: ISP Secretly Copies BitTorrent Tracker Data
• • IP: ISPs To Send "Hundreds of Thousands" of File-Sharing Warnings
• • IP: Judge: posting shock jock clip to the web is "fair use"
• • IP: Lawyer Exposes RIAA's Legal Bullying
• • IP: MPAA Hacker Spied on The Pirate Bay
• • IP: MPAA planning site to offer legit movie link
• • IP: MPAA: DVR-blocking about "multibillion-dollar theft problem"
• • IP: Muxtape creator battles Firefox script kiddies while waiting for the RIAA
• • IP: My interview with Francesca Coppa is now online.
• • IP: Net firms in music pirates deal
• • IP: New RIAA Lawsuit Defense Tactic: Admit Liability, Challenge the Law
• • IP: Nothing to See Here: YouTube's "New" Copyright Tech " NewTeeVee(-)
• • IP: On eBay, Some Profit by Selling Whats Free
• • IP: Pirate Bay Facing Server Troubles and Downtime
• • IP: Police Arrest Man Camming The Dark Knight'
• • IP: Redlasso Gets Copyright Legal Action From Fox and NBC : Digital-Lifestyles (alpha remix)(-)
• • IP: RIAA Critic Beckerman Scores Judiciary's Ear | Threat Level from Wired.com
• • IP: Senator fuses controversial IP bills into big, bad package
• • IP: Senators introduce bill that would allow U.S. Attorney General to bring civil actions against copyright violators.
• • IP: Serious YouTube test of copyright law(-)
• • IP: Six U.S. states account for half of national software piracy losses
• • IP: Textbook Piracy Raises Questions
• • IP: Travis Defends Fan from IFPI Threats
• • IP: Two OiNK Uploaders Go Free
• • IP: UK Government Opens Filesharing Consultation
• • IP: UK group calls on YouTube to screen all uploaded videos
• • IP: Universal Says DMCA Takedown Notices Can Ignore 'Fair Use'
• • IP: Universal: "Fair use" is still infringing
• • IP: US Government Insists on Right to Violate DMCA
• • IP: Users OK with ads in streaming TV, not on YouTube uploads
• • IP: Viacom Fraudulently Claims Ownership Of Indie Filmmakers' YouTube Clips
• • IP: Vividcon CafePress Sadness
• • IP: What's right with the "groundbreaking" UK P2P compromise
• • IP: Where's the Warning Letter for the OiNK Uploaders?
• • IP: WIPO orders Narnia domain transfer, makes 11-year-old cry
• • IP: Yahoo Music Does the Right Thing: Issues Refunds to Customers -
• • IP: Yahoo relents, gives coupons, refunds to music DRM captives
• • IP:MPAA Attacks Movie Streaming Sites

• Meta Discussion
• • Meta: Blacknell.net Talks About FanVids
• • Meta: I missed the memo where it was announced that fanvids were illegal.
• • Meta: Me...enter a.... vidding contest?
• • Meta: Oh, vidding how I hate and love you.
• • Meta: Trailers vs Fanvids
• • Meta: Various vidding thoughts(-)
• • Meta: Vidding Meme by Paraka
• • Meta: Vidding meme! by the-sun-is-up.
• • Meta: vidding: history, process, and why this is my hobby
• • Meta: Wikipedia Entry: Vidding

• Technical Issues
• • Tech: Mac media player
• • Tech: Sony Vegas 8.0 Pro Zoom
• • Tech: Timeline problem

Original poster: morgandawn

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

• Convention News
• Cons: VVC 2007 Con Report - Part 6! (The rest)

• Intellectual Property/P2P Discussion
• IP: Anti-Piracy Evidence Put in Doubt by Leecher
• IP: Permanent Injunction Closes QuebecTorrent
• IP: Best Practices for Fair Use in Online Video(-)
• IP: Breaking the law: one-third of US residents rip DVDs
• IP: BREIN Continues Dutch Anti-Piracy Mop up
• IP: Comcast Ordered to Stop BitTorrent Traffic Interference
• IP: Comcast suddenly respects FCC authority over throttling
• IP: Copyfight: Mahalo Daily suspended from YouTube(-)
• IP: EU finally cuts through licensing red tape for digital music
• IP: EU to Extend Copyright, Break Royalty Monopolies
• IP: Fans, Fair Use, and Transformation
• IP: Fanwork-related links
• IP: Final RIAA/Jammie Thomas briefs in; new trial decision looms
• IP: French Government Seeks To Disconnect Pirates From All Of EU
• IP: G8 Pushes Anti-Piracy Trade Agreement
• IP: Google knows all, tells all
• IP: LeaseWeb Loses Appeal to BREIN
• IP: Library of Congress: DRM a serious obstacle to archiving
• IP: Lionsgate, YouTube strike ad-share deal
• IP: Martin be damned, cable ISPs want network management freedom
• IP: MediaRights: News: Copyleft, Copyright and Everything in Between(-)
• IP: No Anti-BitTorrent Precedent Achieved in Canada | TorrentFreak
• IP: NPR reports on fanfiction and OTW,
• IP: NPR story on Chinese fansubs of US TV
• IP: NY attorney general gets more ISPs to block alt.* newsgroups
• IP: P2P leecher targeted in Germany for making files available
• IP: P2P not hurting DVD, Blu-ray sales as revenues up from 2007
• IP: Pirate Bay Cop Not to be Investigated
• IP: Popular WoW automation tool infringes Blizzard's copyright
• IP: QuebecTorrent Clone Outmanoeuvres Music Industry
• IP: Slyck News - Pioneer Reveals 400 GB Optical Disc(-)
• IP: Techdirt: Is Putting Every Frame Of A Movie Into A Photo Copyright Infringement? Should It Be?(-)
• IP: Textbook Torrents Disables 78 BitTorrent Listings
• IP: The Piracy Dilemma
• IP: UK Communications Regulator Enters File-Sharing Debate
• IP: UK File-Sharers and the “Wireless Defense”
• IP: US Pirate Party Study Shatters MPAA Claims | TorrentFreak
• IP: Viacom's Swipe at YouTube's Records Now Said to Involve Employees
• IP: Viacom, Google agree to mask 12TB of YouTube user data(-)
• IP: Viacom: Easy Tiger, We Don’t Want Your Data « NewTeeVee
• IP: Victims of WiFi Theft Not Responsible For Illegal Uploads
• IP: You abuse the throttle, you should expect a ticket (Comcast Internet throttling)
• IP: You Bought It, But You Don't Own It | Electronic Frontier Foundation(-)
• IP: Your secret obsession with “Dramatic Chipmunk” is safe for now | Good Morning Silicon Valley(-)
• IP: YouTube, Viacom Both Want To Uphold User Privacy. As For IPs…
• IP: YouTube partners with TiVo

• Meta Discussion
• Meta: A brief treatise on why vidding is easier than writing:
• Meta: Big List of Vidding Comms on LJ Updated
• Meta: Experimental Video(-)
• Meta: interactive vidding on youtube
• Meta: New Vidding Community - vid_critics
• Meta: Reason magazine interview with Fransceca Coppa
• Meta: Vidding meme - secretlytodream
• Meta: why do vidders generally receive less feedback than writers
• meta: Vidding does indeed have periods of terrible slogging boredom

• Technical Questions
  
• Tech: Audio exports/editing in final cut express
• Tech: Effect Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 ?(-)
• Tech: exported version part of the song is all crackly and noisy
• Tech: Please help with Vegas 7 - Masking
• Tech: Question: making a video clip with subtitles
• Tech: Transferring a sequence to a new project in Adobe?(-)
• Tech: Vidding 101-Field Order Issues

Original poster: morgandawn

Somewhat grim news all around for fair use and file sharing (look under IP Issues).

• Convention News
• Cons: Con report: Con.txt slash convention 2008 - Vid Show
• Cons: tis the season to be GIDDY - Vividcon 2008
• Cons: VividCon 2008 schedule of events

• Intellectual Property/P2P Issues
• IP: Bell’s Own Data Shatters P2P Red Herring(-)
• IP: 3-Strikes Law Not Needed to Disconnect Pirates
• IP: An Essay Concerning MPAA Understanding of 'Making Available' in the P2P Context | Threat Level from Wired.com(-)
• IP: ATTN! For all YouTube Vidders!(-)
• IP: Australian Drug Mafia to Sell Pirated DVDs
• IP: Belgian publishers, fresh from victory against Google, turn on EU
• IP: Bell's P2P traffic issues "easily and inexpensively solved"
• IP: BitTorrent seed farmer found guilty, faces 10 years in jail
• IP: Campus copyright battle moves to textbook torrents
• IP: Copyright Office: cable should lose special access to local channels
• IP: Court Hits BitTorrent Users Who Failed to Appear | TorrentFreak(-)
• IP: EMI joins Viacom in trying to drain the UGC safe harbor
• IP: How New Copyright Legislation Will Affect Indie Artists and Crafters : Crafting a Green World(-)
• IP: How The FBI Dismantled a BitTorrent Community
• IP: Jammie Thomas, RIAA cross swords in final briefs to judge
• IP: Jury Finds EliteTorrents Administrator Guity
• IP: Malaysian Government Orders Immediate Torrent Site Blackout
• IP: My Way or Norway: Prince Sues to Obliterate Tribute Album
• IP: No Google source code for Viacom, just 12TB of YouTube data
• IP: OiNK’s Bail Date Extended for the 4th Time | TorrentFreak(-)
• IP: Protective order will keep Viacom out of sensitive YouTube user data
• IP: Rhapsody embraces MP3 music files
• IP: Rhapsody's DRM-free music store offers little to excite
• IP: RIAA 'Making Available' Argument: File Sharers 'Freeload' | Threat Level from Wired.com(-)
• IP: RIIAAs ACTA wishlist includes gutted DMCA, mandatory filters(-)
• IP: The RIAA has an ACTA Wish-List - and your rights are on that list
• IP: Virgin Media: ‘Absolutely No Possibility’ of Disconnecting File-Sharers | TorrentFreak(-)
• IP: Virgin, BPI at odds as first infringement letters go out
• IP: Who Will Be The First To Sue Girl Talk Over Music Samples?(-)
• IP: WhoTubes? Google/Youtube Turns Over Viewers IP Addresses & Names To Viacom Lawyers
• IP: YouTube Ordered to Give Complete User Logs to Viacom(-)
• IP: ‘Heroes’ Producer Recognizes Benefits of BitTorrent
• IP:EU musicians oppose Europe-wide online licensing - Yahoo! News

• Meta Discussions
• Meta: "You want me to come up with a good vid song idea, and then give it away?"
• Meta: Attention Vidders! - The Pirates Dilemma - Will You Fight The Empire Or Become Part of It?
• Meta: favorite vids meme, take 2
• Meta: Stealing Your Own Stuff?
• Meta: this is not vidding meta
• Meta: Vid blurbs. I hate coming up with them.
• Meta: Vid Moment Meme
• Meta: Vid Remasters - New Premiering Or Something Else?
• Meta: VVC post-deadline post-mortem, erm, post.
  
• Meta: What is vidding? Link Set

• Tech Chat
• Tech: Batch Video Converters
• Tech: Epic Clippage - Vidder Resource
• Tech: Problems with avisynth

Original poster: morgandawn

The vidding  community has set up a self-tagging system.. You can get more info here. We're also looking for volunteers to help with tagging 2008 posts

• Convention News
• Cons: Con.Txt Vid Show Playlist
• Cons: Contxt pre-con post thingy... (Vid Show)
• Cons: I had high hopes for the Vidding Kindergarten panel, but it left me cranky
• Cons: Slashcon 08 Vid Show
• Cons: VividCon DVD Purchase Deadline!
• Cons: What Are You Making for Vividcon Premieres

• Intellectual Property/P2P Issues
• IP On The Hidden Vulnerabilities Of The Internet (Usenet access blocked)
• IP; MPAA Says It Doesn’t Need Evidence to Convict Pirates
  
• IP: Attorney Fees Affirmed in P2P Case
• IP: Metallica goes diva on the Internet…again(-)
• IP: "Canadian DMCA" claims it brings "balanced" copyright to Canada
• IP: "Dishonesty" and a missing PC: RIAA dropping UMG v Lindor
• IP: 3-Strikes Law to Disconnect French Pirates
• IP: alt.blocked: Verizon blocks access to whole USENET hierarchy
• IP: AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort | Drudge Retort
• IP: AP: Just a misunderstanding, nothing to see here, move along
• IP: Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license)
  
• IP: Bell Canada P2P spat may grow into big net neutrality war
• IP: Bell Canada: congestion numbers look low, but actually aren't
• IP: BitTorrent Users Refuse To Pay Copyright Fines
• IP: California joins Usenet-bashing, asks ISPs to block access
• IP: Canada Proposes Draconian Anti-Piracy Law
• IP: Canadian Government ready to drop copyright bomb
• IP: Cash, not idealism, behind ISP embrace of music biz C&D notices
• IP: CD Sales Fall Faster Than Digital Music Sales Rise. Or Do They?
• IP: Congress....who voted to force the government to carry water for the RIAA and the MPAA?
• IP: Cuomo’s Child Porn Deal: The Death of USENET?
• IP: Did Weezer rip off the Barenaked Ladies?
• IP: DMCA takedown tiff not a battle the AP should be fighting
• IP: Does the Entertainment Industry Want the Internet Locked Down?
• IP: Don’t Humiliate Yourself Complaining to The Pirate Bay
• IP: Download Torrents on PS3, iPhone and Web-Enabled Devices
• IP: French Cabinet backs "educational" three-strikes law
• IP: Game Over. Hulu Wins. They Have The Daily Show. And Colbert.
• IP: Gene Simmons blames fans, P2P for killing music industry
• IP: Girl Talk’s new album: Pay whatever
• IP: Government “Holds a Gun to the Head” of ISPs Over P2P
• IP: Inside the music industry's piracy battle
• IP: Internet Service Providers To Start Charging For Bandwith
• IP: Joss Stone: Piracy is Brilliant, Music Should be Shared
• IP: Judge upholds $107,834 in attorneys' fees award against RIAA
• IP: Judge: record labels can't stop sale of promotional CDs
• IP: Kid Rock: Don’t Just Steal Music, Steal Everything | TorrentFreak
• IP: MediaDefender Goes Forward with P2P Marketing | TorrentFreak
• IP: Metallica "ear spanks" management, reinstates online reviews
• IP: Metallica to bloggers: don't review our music
• IP: Microsoft does 180, will continue to support MSN Music DRM
• IP: Movie theaters join fight against MPAA's anti-DVR initiative
• IP: MPAA Says No Proof Needed in P2P Copyright Infringement Lawsuits | Threat Level from Wired.com
• IP: Pandora Founder Frets About Royalty Fees
• IP: Pearl Jam offers streaming 'bootlegs'
• IP: Philippine Photographer Sues Major Daily for Copyright Infringement. » Blogalicious: a philippine photo odyssey
• IP: Pirate Tax Funds Pirate Album
• IP: Police Chief Faces High Court Anti-Piracy Action
• IP: Profs tell Thomas judge making available isn't distribution
• IP: Radiohead Blasted By Veteran Rockers KISS For Giving Their Music Away For Free - Entertainment
• IP: Reports: Demonoid Blocking Countries
• IP: Rewriting Copyright History, The Elitist Way: Compare File Sharers To 9/11 Terrorists
• IP: RIAA doubles settlement cost for students fighting subpoenas
• IP: RIAA wants the Internet shut down - The INQUIRER
• IP: Rodeo cowboys lassoed for DMCA misuse over cruelty videos
• IP: Sandvine: close to half of all bandwidth sucked up by P2P
• IP: Study: women shier about sharing creative works online
• IP: Survey Shows Huge Demand for Legal P2P
• IP: The A.P. Has Violated My Copyright, And I Demand Justice(-)
• IP: The Canadian DMCA: Check the Fine Print(-)
• IP: The FCC Stumbles into Internet Filtering
• IP: Third time's the charm? RIAA tries end run around old case
• IP: Top 12 Myths about RIAA | Mp3sparks.us
• IP: UK ISPs, record labels in talks over P2P warnings for users
• IP: UK police nicked by copyright cop for playing radio too loud
• IP: Viacom flips YouTube the bird, sends Daily Show to Hulu
• IP:Sandvine calls net neutrality "laughable," defends filtering

• Meta Discussions
• Meta: 'Home' Vid Notes(-)
• Meta: Discussion 1 - use of multiple sources in the promotion of a television channel
• Meta: Favorite Vid Moments
• Meta: Hera Has Six Mommies: THE VID
• Meta: I think I owe brad a cookie Vividcon musings
• Meta: Lend me your ideas! Vids that need to be made to I Kissed a Girl:
• Meta: Things I've Found Useful in Vidding Doctor Who
• Meta: Vid meme by dancingvid
• Meta: vidderly navel gazing
• Meta: Vidding is a lot of solitary work.

• Technical Issues
• Tech: Sony Vegas 7 : codec problem
• Tech: Crackles and pops in the audio(-)
• Tech: Free Sound effects(-)
• Tech: Jagged flicker" playback in VLC
• Tech: Premiere Pro CS3, Frame Blend
• Tech: Sony Vegas 8 Video Formats
• Tech: Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 Problem(-)
• Tech: Sony Vegas tutorials
• Tech: Where can I get audio clips for effects

Original poster: morgandawn

The vidding community has set up a self-tagging system.. You can get more info here. We're also looking for volunteers to help with tagging 2008 posts

• Convention News
• Cons: Accepting video submissions for supernatural convention
• Cons: Media West Vidding Panel
• Cons: Vividcon DVD-purchase deadline is July 1
• Cons: Vividcon Rollover/Refund deadline is July 1!

• Intellectual Property/P2P News
• IP: 40GB for $55 per month: Time Warner bandwidth caps arrive
• IP: ARPANet architect: bring "fairness" to traffic management
• IP: Be Afraid of BitTorrent, Very, Very Afraid
• IP: Ben Stein 1, Yoko Ono 0 in "Expelled" copyright spat
• IP: BPI and Virgin Media Agree to Start Warning Uploaders
• IP: British Police Confirm Six OiNK Users Arrested
• IP: Chinese music group trying to hit Baidu where it hurts: ads
• IP: Comcast testing protocol-agnostic traffic management
• IP: Comcast Tests a New Bandwidth Throttle
• IP: Congress urged to investigate ISPs over user tracking
• IP: Customers cry fraud over Comcast P2P meddling in new lawsuit
• IP: Disney getting ready for Hulu : JoostTeam
• IP: DMCA “Repeat Infringers”: Scientology Critic’s Account Reinstated after Counter-Notification
• IP: EFF: Sunlight for ACTA
• IP: EZTV and MVGroup Join Forces
• IP: House Passes Controversial PRO IP Act | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• IP: Incipient Intellectual Property
• IP: Investigator controversy surfaces over Pirate Bay case
• IP: MPAA wants to stop DVRs from recording some movies
• IP: N.Y. takes piracy battle underground
• IP: New filings reveal extent, damage of Bell Canada throttling
• IP: No Safe Harbor in India: Yahoo sued over copyrighted video
• IP: O Canada! A tale of Wikipedia shenanigans and the wrong B
• IP: PC World - Business Center: Yahoo Sued by Indian Music Company for Copyright Infringment
• IP: Pirates Slowly Killing MediaDefender
• IP: Secret ACTA treaty may include ISP filtering
• IP: Secret super-copyright treaty MEMO leaked - Boing Boing
• IP: Study paints grim picture of automated P2P enforcement
• IP: Study Reveals Reckless Anti-Piracy Antics
• IP: Swedish Left Party Wants to Legalize Piracy
• IP: Techdirt: It's Baaaaaack. Canadian DMCA On The Way
• IP: The Return Of XenuTV To YouTube - Mark Bunker’s Account Reinstated (Scientology)
• IP: Today's propaganda coup
• IP: TorrentTrader Classic Vulnerable to IP Authorization Bypass
• IP: TracFone wins another DMCA round
• IP: True or false: Is file swapping legal? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
• IP: U2 manager slams Internet providers
• IP: UK ISP bows to record industry, to send P2P warning letters
• IP: UK police herd up erstwhile OiNK users on conspiracy charges
• IP: Warner Confesses: Pirate Bay Cop Compromised | TorrentFreak
  

• Meta Discussions About Vidding
  
• Meta- vidding with 2 songs?(-)
• Meta - Imeem thinks I'm too concerned with view counts(-)
• Meta: "What is Remix Culture?": An Interview with Total Recut's Owen Gallagher (Part One)
• Meta: AMVs/Fanvids
• Meta: fan vids often have three distinct acts - the beggining, the body & the end.
• Meta: IVP #0: "Overture" (The Pretender)
• Meta: multifandom vids
• Meta: music theory and how it applies to vidding
• Meta: questions about vid rec preferences
• Meta: Seven Things I Know about Vidding
  
• Meta: the reel - vid rec review site - Seeking Staff for the summer
• Meta: Total Recut
• Meta: Vid commentary: Something Beautiful(-)
• Meta: Vid Rec Wanted
• Meta: vidding meme lightofshadows6
• Meta: Vidding Meme(-) babydolleyez
• Meta: when they started showing vids/having a vid room at MediaWest?
• Meta: youtube: now offering "watch in high quality"(-)

• Technical Chat
• Tech: Cinelerra on Ubuntu: aspect ratios
• Tech: DVR + aspect ratio question(-)
• Tech: Overlays in Sony Vegas?(-)
• Tech: Overlays?(-)
• Tech: using audio in a vid

Original poster: morgandawn

We (well actually it is just me)  are running late on the Meta newsletter posts  as I've been working on two projects - the Sweet Charity vid compilation and the vidding community
tagging project.  On that note I'll take this opportunity to announce  that we're instituting a self-tagging system in the vidding community. You can get more info here. We're also looking for volunteers to help with tagging 2007 posts

Now on to the newsletter.

• Convention News
• Cons: MediaWest*Con 28 - Saturday May 24th - convention report(-)
• Cons: MediaWest*Con 28 Vid Premiere List(-)
• Cons: Searching for vidders...alasen or bs_symphonies?

• Intellectual Property/P2P News
• IP: A win for digital distribution as Netflix set-top box debuts
• IP: AVGN Loses, Regains YouTube Account
• IP: Belgian Newspapers Sue Google For Sending Them Traffic - Again
• IP: Bell Opens Video Download Store, but Continues to Throttle BitTorrent
• IP: BitTorrent Tracker Insider Infiltrates Anti-Piracy Lobby
• IP: Canadian punk rocker-turned-MP submits net neutrality bill
• IP: Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Packback?
• IP: Concerns linger in wake of NBC/Windows MCE recording snafu
• IP: Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers, allow access to your computers without court orders
• IP: Court smacks Autodesk, affirms right to sell used software
• IP: Don’t Ignore Copyright Infringement Allegations (Business and Technology Law)(-)
• IP: Encryption Chip Will End Piracy, Says Atari Founder -
• IP: Failing Web 2.0 stars pray for copyright abolition
• IP: Fair Use Project to Represent Premise Media Against Yoko Ono Lennon and EMI Records
• IP: Finnish appeals court overturns controversial CSS ruling
• IP: Google Is Right About This: YouTube Lawsuit Threatens The Net(-)
• IP: Groklaw - Viacom's 1st Amended Complaint and YouTube/Google's Answer - updated, both as text
• IP: iCopyright Launches Creator Services
• IP: Internet celebrates 2 years of futility battling Pirate Bay
• IP: It’s Time To Rethink Copyright Law(-)
• IP: Jury hands feds first guilty verdict for Web music piracy | Tech news blog - CNET News.com(-)
• IP: Linking to movies leads to $4 million in fines
• IP: Metallica Repents, Sort Of | Listening Post from Wired.com(-)
• IP: Mininova, 5 Billion Downloads and Counting
• IP: Monitoring Videos Taken Down From YouTube
• IP: MPAA Threatens World’s Premier Usenet Indexer
• IP: Music piracy lands 25 year old New Yorker in jail(-)
• IP: New report on watermarks and privacy misses the point
• IP: OiNK Investigation: Police Start Making Arrests
• IP: OiNK Pre-Releasers Accused of Conspiracy To Defraud Music Industry
• IP: Prof copyrights study questions to fend off web cheat sheets
• IP: Proposed US ACTA multi-lateral intellectual property trade agreement (2007) - Wikileaks(-)
• IP: Radiohead wants Prince cover on YouTube
• IP: Recording Industry vs. The People(-)
• IP: Revision3 Sends FBI after MediaDefender
• IP: Revision3: denial of service attacked launched by RIAA funded company
• IP: RIAA Declares Victory Over AllofMP3, Drops Lawsuit
• IP: RIAA responds to Andersen lawsuit: We did nothing wrong
• IP: Sci-Tech Today | Other Copyright Holders Sue Google and YouTube(-)
• IP: Techdirt: Is Reselling A Shampoo Bottle Copyright Infringement?(-)
• IP: The Pirate Bay: Two Years After the Raid | TorrentFreak(-)
• IP: Video Game Reviwers Youtube Accounts Shut Down
• IP: Will BitTorrent Sites Become Obsolete?
• IP: YouTube: Viacom dumping piranhas in our DMCA safe harbor(-)
• IP: Zuneral this Saturday! at harvard college free culture
• IP:WikiSubtitles Taken Down By Spanish Anti-Piracy Outfit

• Meta Discussions
• Meta: vidding resources
• Meta: a helpful, funny, and kinda mean tutorial on aspect ratios:
• Meta: Ask The Vidder Charmax
• Meta: Making 'Paranoid Android'
• Meta: SQUIRREL! OMG I AM VIDDING THE ADVENTURES OF SQUIRREL-MAN AND HIS BOYFRIEND
• Meta: The Roadhouse Vidding Forum is now open!
• Meta: The Texture of Remix « Just TV(-)
• Meta: YouTube, GRRRR!!!(-)
• Meta: youtube: now offering "watch in high quality"
• Meta:Vidding On Twitter?

• Technical Chat
• Tech- WMM and Collections(-)
• Tech: changing a file's dimensions in MPEGStreamclip(-)
• Tech: Final Cut + DVR + aspect ratio question(-)
• Tech: Help? (problems with Windows Movie Maker vista)
• Tech: HyperEngine not exporting?

Original poster: morgandawn

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

• Convention News
• Cons: Connotations Vid Show.
• Cons: Dragon*Con - Calling All Vidders!(-)
• Cons: VividCon Non-Attending Premieres Show!

• Intellectual Property/P2P News
• IP: Art, copying, and YouTube
• IP: BitTorrent Shrugs Off Massive Malware Attack
• IP: Ars Book Review: "The Pirate's Dilemma"
• IP: Best-Selling Author Turns Piracy into Profit | TorrentFreak
• IP: Big Content fighting campus P2P by lobbying for state laws
• IP: BitTorrent Community Mourns as Tracker Founder Passes Away
• IP: Copyright infringement a debatable issue(-)
• IP: Cox Blockers: Keeping Torrent Users from Sharing Files(-)
• IP: Cox, Comcast biggest BitTorrent blockers in the world
• IP: Danish Copyright Censorship Proposal Revealed
• IP: derivative work » Blog Archive » happy birthday is free after all
• IP: Doctor Who: Partners in Copyright Crime
• IP: Double standard? UMG fights "excessive" infringement damages
• IP: Flunking file-swappers: inside the RIAA’s anti-P2P machine
• IP: Funny How Universal Music Thinks Infringement Fines Are Unconstitutional When It's On The Receiving End(-)
• IP: Groklaw - The GPL Wins Again - Welte vs. Skype Technologies SA (Germany)
• IP: Guide Through the Legal Jungle: Artist Litigates His Own Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
• IP: House Passes Controversial PRO IP Act
• IP: How It Does It: The RIAA Explains How It Catches Alleged Music Pirates - Chronicle.com(-)
• IP: How Viacom can sink the pirates(-)
• IP: How To Tell The Copyright Forest from The Trees
• IP: iceland-t orrent-tracker-wins-in-court
• IP: IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa
• IP: IPKat Announces the Official Launch of ACID's Mediate to Resolve
• IP: Knitwit BBC Goes After Dr Who Fans | Electronic Frontier Foundation(-)
• IP: MEPs Want More IP for Sports
• IP: Michael Jackson to Take on The Pirate Bay
• IP: Mininova Faces Legal Action: Filter or Else
• IP: My Experience with the Music Industry - PlagiarismToday(-)
• IP: NBC-Vista copy-protection snafu reminds us why DRM stinks
• IP: New bill ties net neutrality to antitrust law
• IP: P2P Defendant Awarded Attorney Fees(-)
• IP: Piracy now "public nuisance" in Los Angeles County(-)
• IP: Pirate Bay: MPAA's $15.4 million damage claim a fabrication
• IP: Recording Industry vs. The People(-)
• IP: Regulators want answers from Bell Canada on P2P throttling
• IP: Techdirt: If Copyright Is About Incentive, Should It Allow Total Control Over The Work?
• IP: The Pirate Bay File Police Bribery Complaints
• IP: The Struggles of France's Three Strikes Law
• IP: TorrentSpy Won't Pay $111 Million Court Order, Lawyer Says | Threat Level from Wired.com(-)
• IP: Understanding Anti-Piracy Enforcement
• IP: Victorious BitTorrent Tracker to Return
• IP: Warner/DC comics shuts down children's cancer charity auction over trademark - Boing Boing(-)
• IP:What's the point of a revolution without general copulation? - Take that, Viacom(-)

• Meta Discussions
• Meta: Remix: A Contested Practice(-)
• Meta: - the intersection of race and pop culture(-)
• Meta: Buffy, Gender, Sexuality and Race « Reading While Black(-)
• Meta: Copyright education and patent agents
• Meta: How Fandom Has Changed (the loss of personal webpages for vids)
• Meta: I was no longer trying to do good vids, I was trying to do good gimmicks.

• Technical Chat
• Tech- A question about layering(-)
• Tech: Still frame question in Sony Vegas(-)
• Tech: Vidding Technology -(-)
• Tech: WMM Preview Screen Problem
• Tech: Working with .avi files terribly slow in Ulead VideoStudio 11.5

Original poster: morgandawn

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

• Conventions
• Cons: Joymaking vids wanted for Vividcon
• Cons: The time has come to claim your songs for Dragon*Con.
• Cons: Total Recut Video Remix Challenge (not a convention per se)

• Intellectual Property/P2P Issues
• IP- MPAA Defeats TorrentSpy
• IP: Hulu Brings NBC (and FOX) Back to YouTube
• IP: Musician 'duped' into anti-piracy video
• IP: A Realistic Look at Orphan Works
• IP: "Fifth major" Merlin signs 12,000 indie labels, eyes MySpace
• IP: Akamai Fires Engineer Who Spoke Out Against Music Tax
• IP: Blockbuster beware: iTunes Store gets same-day DVD releases
• IP: Campuses swimming in flood of infringement notices from RIAA
• IP: Comcast mulling metered access, 250GB monthly bandwidth caps
• IP: Controversial Pro-IP Act sails through Judiciary Committee
• IP: Could social networking sites save the music industry? (imeem)
• IP: File-Sharer Convicted in Sweden’s Biggest P2P Case
• IP: Five copyright myths and the countries that love them
• IP: If music DRM is dead, the RIAA expects its resurrection
• IP: IFPI to Sue Swedish ISP for Facilitating Copyright Infringement
• IP: Internet Mysteries: How Much File Sharing Traffic Travels the Net?
• IP: isoHunt and MPAA Debate Legality of BitTorrent Sites
• IP: isoHunt tells judge it's just another search engine
• IP: Judge delivers fast smackdown to RIAA on P2P counterclaim
• IP: Mininova Heads Towards 5 Billion Downloads
• IP: MPAA Demands $15 Million from The Pirate Bay
• IP: MSN Music Debacle Highlights EULA Dangers
• IP: Music Week - BPI backs guide to safe and legal downloading
• IP: NBC using YouTube clips to drive Hulu traffic
• IP: New York Piracy Law Smells Fishy Says Pirates
• IP: Nine Inch Nails Give Away New Single on Facebook
• IP: NY Piracy Protection Act no panacea for P2P problems
• IP: OiNK’s Bail Date Extended Yet Again by Police
• IP: Online music services could pay $100 million in royalties
• IP: Radiohead says no more music freebies
• IP: RIAA: Piracy fight more important than net neutrality bill
• IP: Senator to ISPs: "Think twice" about 'Net neutrality... or else
• IP: TorrentSpy Slapped with $110 Million Judgement
• IP: Universities Baffled By Massive Surge In RIAA Copyright Notices
• IP: Viacom, Google set for fight to bitter end over Safe Harbor
• IP: Warez Leader Is Chairman Of San Diego Republican Party | TorrentFreak(-)
• IP: We live in a strange time of copyright history.
• IP: Yoko Ono In Court To Block Distribution Of Lennon Videos
• IP:MPAA Silently Drops Case Against BitTorrent Site |

• Meta Discussions About Vidding
• Meta: Acavid(-)
• Meta: are there any Fanfiction.Net equivalent sites out there for fanvids?
• Meta: Lost in Translation(-)
• Meta: Vid Archiving/Help Community
• Meta: VID, if you can believe it: The Future Stops Here.(-)
• Meta: vidding, effects, and KC's big fat mouth(-)
• Meta: when did vidding become a competition?
• Meta: Youtube Allows Vid Even Though UMG Makes Audio Ownership Claim
• Meta: What's Behind 'The Glass'?(-)

• Technical Issues
  
• Tech: help with saving an avi file?
• Tech: Pan/Crop Widescreen Format
• Tech: Sony Vegas AVI Files
• Tech: Sony Vegas Tutorial Sites(-)
• Tech: Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic?
• Tech: Windows Movie Maker

Original poster: morgandawn

A special note: Congress is working on a bill with yet more copyright protections plus a "Copyright Czar"; Business Week depicts the RIAA with negative undertones ("Does She Look Like A Pirate?"); and Marvel comics tries to shut down a sold out showing of its own movie in the theatres. 

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

• Convention News
• Cons: CON.TXT 2008 Vid Show
• Cons: Connotations Vid Show

• Intellectual Property/Peer2Peer Discussions
• IP: Big Victory in Atlantic v. Howell: Court Rejects RIAA "Making Available" Theory
• IP: Betrayed MSN Music Customers Deserve More from Microsoft
• IP: Does She Look Like a Music Pirate?(-)
• IP: Filesharing Report Shows Explosive Growth for uTorrent
• IP: IFPI Expert Witness in Pirate Bay Case Worked for IFPI
• IP: Increased piracy hurt Microsoft's quarter
• IP: Is Lessig's Free Culture just a modern Das Kopyright?
• IP: Judge deals another blow to RIAA's making available theory
• IP: Lessig, Google, Obama, and Jesus: a net neutrality mash-up
• IP: Marvel Moves To Shut Down Our Iron Man Screening
• IP: Metallica Now Embraces File-Sharing?
• IP: Mininova Downtime Puts BitTorrent Sites Under Pressure
• IP: Mininova’s Traffic Doubles in a Year
• IP: New Orphaned Works Act would limit copyright liability
• IP: P2P throttling leading to net neutrality showdown in Canada
• IP: Panel OKs bill to create copyright czar
• IP: Pivotal Canadian BitTorrent Showdown Looming
• IP: Project Playlist search engine in RIAA's legal crosshairs
• IP: Proposed new piracy penalties advance in House
• IP: Record companies sue Project Playlist on copyright
• IP: Techdirt: The Smear Campaign Against Larry Lessig And Free Culture
• IP: Warming Up to User-Generated Content,

• Meta Discussions About Vidding
• Meta: I've been trying to figure out how to categorize Lum's The Fifth Circle(-)
• Meta: "Ask The Vidder" Post
• Meta: A very nice experience with youtube(-)
• Meta: Beyond continuity editing?
• Meta: Does every vid need to have a POV?
• Meta: finally had a proper meeting with professors about my thesis topic: fan music vids.
• Meta: iMeem Stats?
• Meta: Imitating vidders, to us is another way of stealing.
• Meta: Is it possible to vid to a slow, static song -- emphasizing the slow staticity of it -- and have it come out as anything but junk?
• Meta: question: Has anyone yet actually tried standing up for vids..
• Meta: Soap opera gay love scene is shot like a songvid
• Meta: the issue with trying to choose a version of a song to use for a vid
• Meta: Vid it : kelleyeskridge.com(-)
• Meta: vidding technical snafus
• Meta: Vividcon. I feel good. Thank you for asking.(-)

• Technical Chat
• Tech: Argh! FLV files strangely silent.
• Tech: audio question
• Tech: Episode Clips in Windows Movie Maker
• Tech: Follow-Up (Quick Transitions in WMM)
• Tech: iMovie: compatable audio files?
• Tech: problems rendering
• Tech: sony vegas problem???
• Tech: Vegas vidding tricks!
• Tech:Episode Clips in Windows Movie Maker(-)

Original poster: morgandawn

A special note: Youtube will begin testing a new audio/video fingerprinting service (see "IP Issues"). Vividcon is looking for vid suggestions for numerous panels/vid shows. And the Demonoid torrent site and tracker is back up and working again.
Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter

• Convention News
• Cons: Calling for VividCon 2008 Vidshow Suggestions!
• Cons: Looking for Hip-Hop Vids
• Cons: Pacificon vidshow playlist & vidding panel notes
• Cons: PWFC con in Vegas is going to have a vidding contest for con members.
• Cons: Vividcon Comedies Sought 4 'Second Bananas'
• Cons: Vividcon Deadlines, Uploading Vids, and Checking File Size!
• Cons: Vividcon dreams, Vividcon planning
• Cons: Vividcon Looking for Vids that Push the Envelope
• Cons: Vividcon- Vid show suggestions needed: Second Bananas
• Cons: Vividcon- Vid show suggestions needed: Sense of Play.

• Intellectual Property/P2P Issues
• IP: Dems plan to hold firm on neutrality
• IP: "The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism" by Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine)
• IP: 10 Percent of Broadband Subscribers Suck Up 80 Percent of Bandwidth
• IP: A trans-Atlantic definition of net neutrality
• IP: AMV.org - Conflict with Wind-up Records (older post)
• IP: Analysis: Hulu does on-demand video right... for now
• IP: Anti-Piracy Blunder Shuts Down BitTorrent Tracker
• IP: BayTSP to track piracy at YouTube, other video sites
• IP: Bell Canada seeks to curb heavy bandwidth use
• IP: Big content goes after colleges through funding bills
• IP: Big ISPs a no show at second FCC net neutrality hearing
• IP: Big ISPs push P4P as substitute for net neutrality
• IP: BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed by Azureus
• IP: BitTorrent use soars as MPAA fights on against P2P sites
• IP: British Music Industry Threatens UK ISP for Speaking Out
• IP: Businesses Like Canada's IP Approach
• IP: Comcast to spearhead creation of P2P Bill of Rights
• IP: Comcast: AT&T's U-Verse is messing with our network
• IP: Comes With Music may come with high price tag
• IP: Demonoid To Be Resurrected Under New Admin
• IP: DoJ wants more money to scour P2P networks for child porn
• IP: DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys
• IP: EMI Says You Can't Store Your Music Files Online
• IP: European Parliament says "no" to disconnecting P2P users
• IP: Fair use on campus: publishers sue school over class reading
• IP: Fairuse obliteratus: Rowling to testify in Harry Potter case
• IP: Fan-videos Removed From Distribution by Record Label
• IP: FCC Hearings at Stanford: Towards a Consensus on ISP Transparency?
• IP: FTC: We'll take on spyware, spam, and unlabeled DRM
• IP: Google's video fingerprinting tech used to fight child porn
• IP: H.K. eyes new streaming regulations
• IP: Hip-Hop Artist Refuses To Stand Against The Pirate Bay
• IP: Hulu Opens Up A Bit More, Adds Video Sharing Features
• IP: iPod tax: UK music biz open to format shifting... for a fee
• IP: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a copy
• IP: Jim Keyzer has had a leading role in the prosecution against The Pirate Bay as head of the preliminary investigation.
• IP: Judge: law protects Comcast's "Good Samaritan" spam filters
• IP: Lawyer Who Threatened File-Sharers is Banned For 6 months
• IP: Marshall University fails to block RIAA's P2P subpoenas
• IP: MPAA Gets a Slap From Norwegian ISPs
• IP: MPAA Secretly Tells Court Why BitTorrent Tracking Sites Violate Copyrights -- UPDATE | Threat Level
• IP: Music Industry Embarrassed
• IP: Music Industry not Satisfied with New German Law on File-Sharing
• IP: Net neutrality in Canada and the U.K.
• IP: New Zealand's DMCA -- Better than Most
• IP: NJ court blocks IP disclosure without a grand jury subpoena
• IP: No harm, no foul, no attorneys' fees for RIAA victim
• IP: Oops! MPAA lawsuit gives free publicity to torrent site
• IP: Oregon: publishing our laws online is a copyright violation
• IP: Pirate Bay Investigator to Cash in Temporarily at Warner Bros.
• IP: Pirate Bay opens uncensored blog site, tweaks IFPI
• IP: Pirate Bay Trial Star Witness Employed by Plaintiff
• IP: PluggedIn: Hello And Goodbye(-)
• IP: Privacy prevails in battle over creativity...for now
• IP: Private BitTorrent Trackers Under Threat From Major Exploit
• IP: Purdue University Launches P2P Network to Bypass RIAA
• IP: RIAA escapes sanctions, drops case against homeless man
• IP: RIAA representatives defend ‘intimidation’ practices, face criticism UWIRE: Powered by The Content
• IP: RIAA spent $2 million lobbying for tougher IP laws in 2007
• IP: Should Apple Help Catch Pirates?
• IP: Subscribe to TV Shows Using BitTorrent on OSX
• IP: The Pirate Bay Demands Compensation for IFPI Block
• IP: TorrentFreak’s Top 10 YouTorrent Alternatives
• IP: Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is “A Load of Bollocks”
• IP: Vuze says some ISPs abuse TCP resets; data not that clearcut
• IP: YouTorrent Goes Legal, and Up For Sale

• Meta Discussions About Vidding
• Meta Vidding Meme - bookwormprinces
• Meta- I'm crawling out of my hole
• Meta: My current internal monologue: vidsvidsvidsvidsVIDSVIDSVIDS
• Meta: creator of original art vid discusses her storyboards and song choice and such.
• Meta: Kirk/Spock Vid Contraversy
• Meta: New vidding forum (Mac & PC)
• Meta: NPR Marketplace audio article on machinima
• Meta: Songs Perfect For Vidding...(-)
• Meta: The Eleventh Hour
• Meta: To crop or not to crop the channel logo
• Meta: Vid: You Know You're Right (SPN Vid): Specs & Effects
• Meta: Vidding - The Springtime Edition.
• Meta: Vidding For The TV/Large Screen
• Meta: vidding to audio fragments sourced from the Prelinger Collection
• Meta: Vids & Slasher Authority
• Meta: VVC Panels & Vidshows
• Meta: YouTube Account Deleted(-)
• Meta; Vidding Survey

• Technical Issues
• Tech: ffmpegX help?
• Tech: General Vidding Question
• Tech: Pan/Zoom Question
• Tech: Sony Vegas Problem
• Tech: Still having Sony Vegas 7 problems... please help!
• Tech: Tutorials for Adobe After Effects

Original poster: morgandawn

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter

• Convention news
• Cons: Calling for VividCon 2008 Vidshow Suggestions!
• Cons: Pacificon vidshow playlist & vidding panel notes

• Intellectual Property/P2P Issues
• IP: "The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism" by Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine)
• IP: A trans-Atlantic definition of net neutrality
• IP: AMV.org - Conflict with Wind-up Records (older post)
• IP: Analysis: Hulu does on-demand video right... for now
• IP: Bell Canada seeks to curb heavy bandwidth use
• IP: Big content goes after colleges through funding bills
• IP: Big ISPs push P4P as substitute for net neutrality
• IP: BitTorrent use soars as MPAA fights on against P2P sites
• IP: British Music Industry Threatens UK ISP for Speaking Out
• IP: Businesses Like Canada's IP Approach
• IP: Comcast to spearhead creation of P2P Bill of Rights
• IP: Demonoid To Be Resurrected Under New Admin
• IP: European Parliament says "no" to disconnecting P2P users
• IP: Fair use on campus: publishers sue school over class reading
• IP: Fairuse obliteratus: Rowling to testify in Harry Potter case
• IP: Fan-videos Removed From Distribution by Record Label
• IP: FTC: We'll take on spyware, spam, and unlabeled DRM
• IP: Google's video fingerprinting tech used to fight child porn
• IP: H.K. eyes new streaming regulations
• IP: Hip-Hop Artist Refuses To Stand Against The Pirate Bay
• IP: Hulu Opens Up A Bit More, Adds Video Sharing Features
• IP: iPod tax: UK music biz open to format shifting... for a fee
• IP: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a copy
• IP: Judge: law protects Comcast's "Good Samaritan" spam filters
• IP: Lawyer Who Threatened File-Sharers is Banned For 6 months
• IP: Marshall University fails to block RIAA's P2P subpoenas
• IP: MPAA Gets a Slap From Norwegian ISPs
• IP: Net neutrality in Canada and the U.K.
• IP: New Zealand's DMCA -- Better than Most
• IP: No harm, no foul, no attorneys' fees for RIAA victim
• IP: Oregon: publishing our laws online is a copyright violation
• IP: Pirate Bay opens uncensored blog site, tweaks IFPI
• IP: Privacy prevails in battle over creativity...for now
• IP: Purdue University Launches P2P Network to Bypass RIAA
• IP: The Pirate Bay Demands Compensation for IFPI Block
• IP: The Pirate Bay Demands Compensation for IFPI Block | TorrentFreak
• IP: TorrentFreak’s Top 10 YouTorrent Alternatives
• IP: Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is “A Load of Bollocks”
• IP: YouTorrent Goes Legal, and Up For Sale

• Meta Discussions
• Meta Vidding Meme - bookwormprinces
• Meta: My current internal monologue: vidsvidsvidsvidsVIDSVIDSVIDS
• Meta: creator of original art vid discusses her storyboards and song choice and such.
• Meta: Kirk/Spock Vid Contraversy
• Meta: New vidding forum (Mac & PC)
• Meta: NPR Marketplace audio article on machinima
• Meta: The Eleventh Hour
• Meta: To crop or not to crop the channel logo
• Meta: Vid: You Know You're Right (SPN Vid): Specs & Effects
• Meta: Vidding - The Springtime Edition.
• Meta: Vidding For The TV/Large Screen
• Meta: vidding to audio fragments sourced from the Prelinger Collection
• Meta: Vids & Slasher Authority
• Meta: VVC Panels & Vidshows
• Meta: YouTube Account Deleted(-)
• Meta; Vidding Survey

• Technical Issues
• Tech: ffmpegX help?
• Tech: General Vidding Question
• Tech: Pan/Zoom Question
• Tech: Still having Sony Vegas 7 problems... please help!

Original poster: morgandawn

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter. 

• Convention News
• Cons: 2008 VividCon Scholarship!
• Cons: Media Fetish: The Vidshow! (Academic Presentatation)
• Cons: Vividcon - Programming selections for Vividcon 2008 :
• Cons: VidUKon Hotel Reservations
• Cons: WriterCon UK - Registration for Midimeet 2008  
• Intellectual Property/Peer To Peer
• IP: Blame games: bill says content makers liable for terrorism
• IP: UMG Says Throwing Away Promo CDs is Illegal
• IP: Lawyer Who Threatened File-Sharers is Banned For 6 months | TorrentFreak
• IP: Songwriters, Careful With Those Music Samples! The Sad Story of The Verve & Bittersweet Symphony
• IP: A class of copyright thieves? A lawsuit over lecture notes
• IP: Big Content in worldwide "whisper campaign" against Fair Use
• IP: BitTorrent Throttling: Interview With Gemini Project
• IP: BitTorrent Tracker Sends Takedown Request to Torrent Indexers
• IP: CA court rules that karaoke cannot safely warble their favorite ballads
• IP: Cable Provider Rogers Continues to Throttle BitTorrent Traffic, Despite Contentious Pricing Scheme
• IP: Can't Catch a Break Against iTunes
• IP: Canadians debating net neutrality in wake of Bell throttling
• IP: Comcast VP calls out FCC Chair for comments on P2P blocking
• IP: Computerworld - US Feds lie about link between software piracy and terrorism
• IP: Defendants: RIAA's private eyes are watching us—illegally
• IP: Dubai National Charged with fine amounting to Dh 10K for infringing copyright |
• IP: EU groups: data retention policies violate Rights Convention
• IP: European Parliament Condemns Plans To Disconnect File-Sharers
• IP: Fair Use, the Three-Step Test, and the Counter-Reformation
• IP: Fight brewing between UK ISPs, labels on disconnecting users
• IP: Filter or Else! Music Industry Sues Irish ISP
• IP: Fordham Debates Canadian Copyright
• IP: French Sony BMG Under Investigation of Copyright Infringement
• IP: ImageShack Starts Free BitTorrent Download Service
• IP: imeem hopes SNOCAP buyout will help it stay ahead of MySpace
• IP: Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing - Times Online
• IP: ISP Will Protect File-Sharers From Music Industry Disconnection Threat | TorrentFreak
• IP: Judge kills RIAA subpoena: making available not infringement
• IP: Lawsuit Claim: Students' Lecture Notes Infringe on Professor's Copyright | Threat Level from Wired.c
• IP: Legal and DRM-free Movie Torrents from Sweden
• IP: Maine law students try to derail RIAA lawsuit express
• IP: Making Available != Distribution, Says Court in London-Sire v. Doe
• IP: Movie Director Says it is OK to Pirate His Movie
• IP: MySpace Music announces downloads sans DRM, free streaming
• IP: MySpace Officially Announces Music Venture with Three of the Major Labels
• IP: Norwegian ISPs refuse to finger P2P users for movie biz
• IP: Open Call: Your DMCA Stories
• IP: Possibly The Most Ridiculous DMCA Take Down Yet(-)
• IP: Recording Industry vs. The People(-)
• IP: Rush to judgment: Comcast not blocking web traffic after all
• IP: Scrabbling for Legal Rationalism: No Copyright for Games
• IP: Talks | Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law (video)(-)
• IP: Terms of (dis)service: ISP user agreements overreach
• IP: The Norwegian Napster
• IP: The Patry Copyright Blog: The recent making available cases (RIAA lawsuits against file sharers)
• IP: UK ISP Talk Talk Says it 'Refuses to Become Internet Police'
• IP: UK news - Virgin Media Denies Doing a Deal to Disconnect Pirates
• IP: Vidding meme by drgnfille
• IP: Vote for the Movie Screening Security Guards
• IP: Warez Scene Members Facing 5 Years in Prison
• IP: Web Filters Prove Less Effective Than MPAA, RIAA Might Like
• Meta Discussions
• Meta: 15 Questions Vidding Meme - keerawa
• Meta: A brief guide to slideshow vids
• Meta: On a different note, the world needs more vidders.
• Meta: Self-absorption ahoy - giandujakiss
• Meta: Sid and Nancy and OMG VVC AUCTION!!! The most wonderful time of the YEAR!!!
• Meta: stop worrying. start vidding. + meme - buffyann
• Meta: Survey for a new vidding/ video remix community site
• Meta: Tea at the Ford - in depth discussion of a vid - Black Sould Choir by gwyn
• Meta: That Ubiquitous Vidding Meme by talitha78
• Meta: Trying to maintain my vidding zen(-)
• Meta: Vid things that make you go hmm.
• Meta: Vidding and Song Choice...(-)
• Meta: Vidding Meme - counteragent
• Meta: Vidding meme - leviathan101
• Meta: Vidding Meme -danegen
• Meta: Vidding meme Answers under the cut - anoel
• Technical Chat
• Tech - Final Cut Express(-)
• Tech: Mac Vidding 101 - .avi --> .dv/.mov program?(-)
• Tech: Mac Vidding 101 - Quality, quality, quality(-)
• Tech: MacTalk - Quality, quality, quality
• Tech: Sony Vegas 7
• Tech: Xvid vs. MPEG-4(-)

Original poster: morgandawn

Although we aim to be as comprehensive as possible, with categories as broad as these it is inevitable that some vids and news items will be overlooked. If you have something you would like included, please don't hesitate to comment and we'll add it to the next newsletter.

• Convention News
• Cons: Bitchin' Vidshow Playlist & Links
• Cons: vidukon Suggest a Panel, Workshop or Vid Show
• Cons: Vividcon Vid Auction now open!

• Intellectual Property/P2P Issues
• IP: New ruling may "grease the wheels" of RIAA litigation machine
• IP: A New Organization to Fight Three Strikes In France
• IP: BitTorrent and Comcast Work Together
• IP: BPI Crackdown Planned as BitTorrent Becomes ‘Too Easy’
• IP: Canada's ISPs get a Net Neutrality Wake-Up Call
• IP: Charging Schools Instead of Suing Students
• IP: Comcast Reduces Discrimination, Plans To End It Altogether
• IP: Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality
• IP: Comcast-BitTorrent pact not a substitute for net neutrality
• IP: Congressman: Copyright not made to "pad wallets" of creators
• IP: Council of Europe Thinks Hard About Internet Filtering
• IP: Don’t Be a BitTorrent Fool Today
• IP: EMI Suffers A Setback In Case Against MP3Tunes
• IP: Google inks Japan copyright pact for YouTube
• IP: Iceland’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Wins in Court
• IP: IFPI Demands Millions From The Pirate Bay
• IP: Israel Adopts Fair Use
• IP: Israel adopts US-style “fair use”
• IP: LegalTorrents Reopens as Community Driven Portal
• IP: New CEO At Creative Commons
• IP: Norwegian ISPs Refuse MPAA’s Request to Disconnect Pirates
• IP: Offering to Distribute = Distribution, says in Court Elektra v. Barker
• IP: Pirate Bay on IFPI lawsuit: Labels can "go screw themselves"
• IP: Radiohead allows fans to remix new single - Yahoo! News
• IP: Reznor vs. Radiohead: Innovation Smackdown
• IP: RIAA: Andersen's new complaint ignores judge's instructions
• IP: Software for Keeping ISPs Honest
• IP: Sony BMG's hypocrisy: company busted for using warez
• IP: Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit
• IP: Swedish Artists Want to Legalize Filesharing
• IP: Swedish ISP Refuses To Block The Pirate Bay
• IP: The Most-Coveted Private BT Sites of 2008
• IP: TorrentSpy Shuts Down
• IP: TorrentSpy's closure a win for MPAA; war far from over
• IP: UK ISP To Voluntarily Disconnect File-Sharers, Offers Free Usenet
• IP: Ulead Video Studio 11 questions
• IP: US Attorney General: Piracy funds terror
• IP: Verizon wants fat pipes, not a badge; MPAA urges ISP filters
• IP: Virgin flirts with Big Content, may kick P2P users offline
• IP: Warner Music floats ISP surcharge idea for unlimited P2P music
• IP: Warner Music Hires Jim Griffin
• IP: YouTube to Use JRC Copyrighted Songs

• Meta Discussions About Vidding
• Meta: Vidding Meme - switch842
• Meta: Vidding Meme - millylicious
• Meta: vidding meme - obsessive24
• Meta: 15 Questions about vidding under here - sdwolfpup
• Meta: A vidding meme - charmax
• Meta: A vidding meme -winterevanesce
• Meta: Flist talking about vidding -> me curling up into a ball.
• Meta: How about I do something completely unusual, and whine about vidding?
• Meta: If Yoda Could Teach You Vidding
• Meta: let's try something different
• Meta: Meh Vidding
• Meta: Old Timer Fills Out Vidder Meme - deejay
• Meta: Song Choice Poll
• Meta: Sweet Charity Vidding Woes
• Meta: That vidding meme - chasarumba
• Meta: That vidding meme - chasarumba
• Meta: that vidding meme, nabbed from pretty much everyone - fan-eunice
• Meta: That vidding meme...astartexx
• Meta: vid rambling
• Meta: Vidder Meme - halcyon-shift
• Meta: vidding , cons, love
• Meta: Vidding Is Like Vomitting
• Meta: Vidding meme - bradcpu
• Meta: Vidding Meme - humansrsuperior
• Meta: Vidding Meme - jagwriter78
• Meta: Vidding meme - littleheaven70
• Meta: Vidding Meme - rhoboat
• Meta: Vidding Meme - shfan
• Meta: Vidding Meme - shoopdancer
• Meta: Vidding Meme - super-kc
• Meta: What's Worth Watching In Vids?

• Technical
• Tech - Convert to AVI (Hallelujah!)
• Tech: Fades with Ulead 11
• Tech: Mac Vidding 101 - Jittery playback when keyframing?(-)
• Tech: Rendering in Sony Vegas
• Tech: Ridiculously Useless Bittorrent Software
• Tech: split screens on sony vegas 7
• Tech: Ulead Video Studio 11 questions
• Tech: VirtualDub -- Stupid Question -- Pan/Scan?