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VODO
VODO is an Digital distribution, online media distributor offering films, books, games and music under pay-what-you-want pricing models. Founded by film director Jamie King (producer), Jamie King, VODO has recently focused on bundle offers, bringing together a variety of creators under the themes of H.P. Lovecraft, Big Brother (surveillance and privacy), NSFW (sex positive culture), Otherworlds (sci-fi) and Really Creepy (indie horror). VODO's background is in distribution of film under Creative Commons licenses, using the BitTorrent (protocol), BitTorrent protocol. Filmmakers can upload films on the site and selected works are also promoted on third-party sites and services such as the Butter Project, uTorrent and The Pirate Bay. Past releases include sci-fi series Pioneer One, The Yes Men Fix the World and Zenith (film), Zenith. Users are encouraged to donate after watching the films, and the highest earning to date has received almost $100,000. VODO releases As of February 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie King (producer)
Jamie King is a British filmmaker, writer, and activist, best known for directing ''Steal This Film'', a documentary that observes intellectual property in favour of Peer-to-peer, P2P filesharing. He is also the founder of VODO, an online crossmedia distribution (business), distribution project for film, games, books, and music. Ted Hope described King as one of the "great free thinkers of Indie film." He is currently host of the podcast STEAL THIS SHOW, produced in conjunction with TorrentFreak. Career Jamie King studied at the University of Southampton, where he received a PhD for his thesis, "The Cultural Construction of Cyberspace". He also attended the prestigious University of Preston whilst living with his parents. He was an original member of the ''Mute (magazine), Mute'' editorial team and served as both Information politics editor and deputy editor. In 2003, he served as convenor of the Counter-Summit to the World Summit on Information Society. During this time, he al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer One
''Pioneer One'' is a 2010 American web series produced by Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith. It was funded purely through donations, and is the first series created for and released on BitTorrent networks. Background ''Pioneer One'' is a serialized drama produced and distributed online through VODO and the DISCO network. Downloaded more than 3,730,000 times since May 2012 and winner for Best Drama Pilot at the 2010 New York Television Festival, the show was independently produced and financed by viewer donations. The pilot episode was filmed on a budget of $6,000, raised in advance using Kickstarter. The series itself was released under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license and is distributed for free in collaboration with VODO, as with Bernhard's previous independent film ''The Lionshare'', over the Internet including peer-to-peer networks. Six episodes were produced. Production of the rest of the season was funded through direct donations from the fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Us Now
''Us Now'' is a 2009 documentary film project "about the power of mass collaboration, the government and the Internet". The ''New York Times'' describes it as a film which "paints a future in which every citizen is connected to the state as easily as to Facebook, choosing policies, questioning politicians, collaborating with neighbours." The documentary weaves together the perceptions of leading thinkers on the power of the web, with the overriding suggestion that people gain a sense of satisfaction from active participation rather than symbolic representation in decision-making processes. (Rebecca Frankel, editor of Channel 4's FourDocs) The project claims the founding principles of mass collaborative projects, including transparency, self-selection and open-participation are nearing mainstream social and political lives. Us Now describes this transition and confronts politicians George Osborne and Ed Miliband with the possibilities for collaborative government as described b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Eyed Monsters
''Four Eyed Monsters'', an American 2005 film by Susan Buice and Arin Crumley. It roughly follows Buice and Crumley's real life relationship; the couple initially communicated only through artistic means inspired to continue their online digital non-verbal courtship in the analog world. The film is a very low budget digital video production but has gained attention for its use of various web-related strategies in distribution and in its ability to build an audience through the use of online resources, a growing trend among contemporary American indie filmmakers. In 2007 it became the first ever feature film to be released on YouTube.com. In 2010 the film was released on VODO where and placed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license allowing audience members to redistribute or even alter as they wish. Since then a number of screenings have been utilized taking advantage of this open license. The film was shot on MiniDV using the Panasonic AG-DVX100 mostly in Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yes Men Fix The World
''The Yes Men Fix the World'' is a 2009 English language documentary film about the culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men. The film premiered in New York City and Los Angeles on October 23, 2009 and in other U.S. cities beginning on October 30. Due to the movie being sued by United States Chamber of Commerce, a special edition of the movie is distributed through bittorrent through VODO and other prominent torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and EZTV. The film documents the following projects: * Dow Chemical and Bhopal * ExxonMobil Vivoleum * Halliburton Survivaball * HUD and post-Katrina public housing * ''The New York Times'' hopeful future edition References External links ''The Yes Men Fix the World'' - Peer to Peer EditionFree video download at Internet Archive * ''The Yes Men Fix the World'': In New Film— video report by ''Democracy Now! ''Democracy Now!'' is an hour-long American TV, radio, and Internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zenith (film)
''Zenith'' (also styled as ''Zenith - A Film by Anonymous'') is a 2010 American psychological thriller directed by Vladan Nikolic and starring Peter Scanavino, Jason Robards III, and Ana Asensio. The screenplay concerns two men attempting to solve the same conspiracy theory. The title refers to a grand 'Zenith Conspiracy' formed by the film's protagonist, Ed Crowley. The film also utilizes an alternate reality game and transmedia storytelling to augment its narrative. ''Zenith'' premiered at The IFC Center in New York City on October 1, 2010, and had an extended run in January 2011 at the Kraine Theatre with its distribution company, Cinema Purgatorio. All three parts have been made available as a free-to-share download at the BitTorrent powered distribution site VODO. Plot In the post-apocalyptic year 2044, the population has been genetically altered to live in a constant state of happiness, but without sorrow, happiness dissipates, leaving only a feeling of never-ending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yes Men Fix The World
''The Yes Men Fix the World'' is a 2009 English language documentary film about the culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men. The film premiered in New York City and Los Angeles on October 23, 2009 and in other U.S. cities beginning on October 30. Due to the movie being sued by United States Chamber of Commerce, a special edition of the movie is distributed through bittorrent through VODO and other prominent torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and EZTV. The film documents the following projects: * Dow Chemical and Bhopal * ExxonMobil Vivoleum * Halliburton Survivaball * HUD and post-Katrina public housing * ''The New York Times'' hopeful future edition References External links ''The Yes Men Fix the World'' - Peer to Peer EditionFree video download at Internet Archive * ''The Yes Men Fix the World'': In New Film— video report by ''Democracy Now! ''Democracy Now!'' is an hour-long American TV, radio, and Internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Lonely Place For Dying
''A Lonely Place for Dying'' is a 2012 American independent drama-thriller film directed by Justin Eugene Evans and produced by James Cromwell. Starring Ross Marquand, Michael Wincott, Michael Scovotti and James Cromwell, the film is set in 1972 during the Cold War. The film's score was composed by Brent Daniels. Plot In 1972, an abandoned Mexican prison sits alone in the dusty Chihuahua desert. KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from ''The Washington Post''. Dzerzhinsky holds explosive evidence against the CIA; information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper must obtain this evidence and kill Dzerzhinsky or risk the end of his CIA career. As the two men hunt each other, they discover that the sins from their past destined them for this deadly confrontation. Cast * Ross Marquand as KGB Officer Nikolai Dzerzhinsky * Michael Scovotti as CIA Agent Robert Harper * Michael Wincott as CIA Project Manager Anthony Greenglass * Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tunnel (2011 Film)
''The Tunnel'' is a 2011 Australian found-footage monster horror film directed by Carlo Ledesma (in his feature-length directorial debut) and co-written, co-produced, and co-edited by Julian Harvey and Enzo Tedeschi. The film stars Bel Deliá, Andy Rodoreda, Steve Davis, Luke Arnold, Goran D. Kleut, and James Caitlin in a documentary-style horror story set in the underground network of abandoned railway tunnels in Sydney, Australia, where a journalist and her crew discover an evil, flesh-eating creature lurking within the tunnels. Plot The film is framed as a documentary, occasionally cutting away to interviews with Natasha and Steven recorded after the events. In the midst of the drought and water shortages, the Government of New South Wales announced plans to recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels beneath the heart of Sydney. However, the government suddenly goes cold on the plan, and it does not tell the public why. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond The Game
''Beyond the Game'' is a 2008 Dutch documentary film about the world of professional video gaming, particularly of the game '' Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne'' featuring world champion players Chinese Xiaofeng "Sky" Li, Dutch Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen and Swede Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson prominently. It is directed by award-winning Dutch documentary filmmaker Jos de Putter. Filming took place in China, France, The Netherlands, United States and Sweden. Languages spoken in the documentary include Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Swedish, Standard Chinese and Korean. Beyond the Game is the motto of the World Cyber Games, which is central to the documentary as the main characters compete to defend or regain the event's championship title at the global finals of the 2007 World Cyber Games in Seattle, Washington. It has premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in Pathé de Munt, and had the cinema premiere in Pathé Tuschinski, and has now been releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butter Project
Butter Project or simply Butter is a suite of open-source desktop and mobile applications that allow video-streaming over the BitTorrent protocol. The project was first made public on 23 October 2015. The aim is to create a completely legal base which other applications can use to provide streaming functionality. Butter Project was created as a split from Popcorn Time when the latter met legal difficulties — with Butter Project aiming to retain development of only expressly legal and permissible portions of the code-base, relating to video-streaming. The developers have asserted Butter Project will not use any of the popcorntime.io infrastructure. Butter Project is not aimed at allowing copyright infringement, but aims to build the groundworks for streaming video over BitTorrent. By having a legal portion which remains on GitHub the creators hope they can get more developers involved. By default Butter can play content from VODO VODO is an online media distributor offerin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yes Men
The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos. Through various actions, the Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about problematic social and political issues. To date, the duo have produced three films: ''The Yes Men'' (2003), ''The Yes Men Fix the World'' (2009), and '' The Yes Men Are Revolting'' (2014). In these films, they impersonate entities that they dislike, a practice that they call "identity correction." The Yes Men operate under the mission statement that lies can expose truth. They create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they intend to spoof, which have led to numerous interview, conference, and TV talk show invitations. They espouse the belief that corporations and governmental organizations often act in dehumanizing ways toward the public. Elaborate props are sometimes part of the ruse (e.g. Survivaball), as shown in their 2003 DVD release ''The Yes Men''. The Yes Men have collabo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
