URL: http://boingboing.net/#85481626
Date: Not supplied
DVDSynth is an open source project that allows you to splice in your own
footage, alternate audio, subtitles, etc, to any DVD. This means that you can
insert your own non-sucky subtitles, make and circulate edit-lists that make
highlight reels for your favorite movies, etc, etc. It all amounts to a sweet
tool for making the audience into the _former audience_, participants in
entertainment. Of course, it's also illegal under the DMCA, since the tool also
necessarily circumvents the copy-prevention in pre-recorded DVDs to accomplish
its ends. Link[1] Discuss[2] (_via NTK[3]_)
[1] http://www.roundelay.net/dvdsynth/prerelease.html
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/ymptgyYcJan
[3] http://www.ntk.net/

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Sheila Lennon was interviewed for the Times piece.
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Sheila Lennon was interviewed[1] for the Times piece.

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Turning junk computers into activist gold
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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85481566
Date: Not supplied
Great article on a group of East Bay activists who rehab junk computers, using
semi-skilled volunteers who train other semi-skilled volunteers. The resulting
computers are sent to the developing world for activist use.
For the Amazonian villages where there's no electricity or where phone
lines are scarce, the activists plan to set up free computer labs in the
nearby cities. Many cities already have commercial Internet cafes, but they
cost about a dollar per hour of use, Henshaw-Plath says, which is about a
day's wage for most of the population.
The IMC activists plan to ship off these computers to Guayaquil, Ecuador's
main port city, by the end of September. Because none of the computers are
being sold in Ecuador, and because they're being transferred from an
American nonprofit to an Ecuadorian one, the activists won't be charged any
international shipping duties on the computers. "It's what you call real
free trade," says Eddie Nix.
Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Markoffcharney!_)
[1] http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/23/antiglobal_geeks/index.html
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/gSpjZZSBcWc84