In working with Lawrence Lessig, Robert Greenwald has agreed to release the interviews within Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism under a Creative Commons non-commercial license (press release). This means that among the rights now granted, interviews balancing out the fair journalism of Fox News can freely be used as anyone sees fit. To see the full movie, you can purchase the Outfoxed DVD or check it out in theaters.

Torrentocracy (along with archive.org) has exclusive initial access to distribute these interviews in their digital form due to the work undertaken to promote a TV-connected, public domain, internet based media distribution network. The torrent file to start your Outfoxed download can be found at outfoxed_interviews.torrent. For more information on how to use bit torrent peer-to-peer filesharing to download this, go here. If you were a Torrentocracy user, you could already be downloading Outfoxed to your television.

It is plainly obvious that this is quite a development not only for the furtherance of media projects that promote sharing and openness, but also as a validation of the legitimate use of peer-to-peer distribution (Induce Act, anyone?). With projects like Torrentocracy enabling any blog to become its own "TV channel" through use of bit torrent, perhaps we can begin to re-enable a plurality of media voices as Outfoxed calls upon us to do. Score this development right alongside MGM v. Grokster. Indeed, we are "dealing with something new."

Congress needs to see that this is not only true, but actually quite an understatement. And maybe, just maybe, we can paradigm shift ourselves to a place where all the established players don't own the turf.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 01:48 AM in torrents | Comments (4)  

Congrats. A quibble though, "exclusive" usually means that you are the only one who have the right to distribute the work, whereas that's clearly not what you mean.

Posted by: akb at September 15, 2004 07:03 AM

point taken and of course i knew this. though you could say it's the exclusive site to host the bit torrent. whatever, i'm just excited to be a part of this.

Posted by: Gary at September 15, 2004 09:56 AM

This is great, I get people coming to my site all time looking for a torrent on that one.

I wonder if there is a way to give some credit to the 'exclusive' folks that start up a torrent seed.

In a meritocracy you really want to know who to give props to.

Posted by: wah at September 15, 2004 12:41 PM

This is a truly awsome undertaking, and a new day is clearly coming over the horizon. Hopefully more people will get on board with this. Long live open, true, and free media.
Nintendo DS rules you

Posted by: Nintendo DS at February 9, 2005 08:43 PM