download rip: a remix manifesto

May 5, 2009 in Lessig, Remix, Video | 8 comments

As posted by Lawrence Lessig, you can now download Rip: A Remix Manifesto. I had the chance to see it a few months ago at a private event and I really enjoyed it.

Another really great thing: you pay what you want for it. So pick an amount – $5 or $7 for example – download it and enjoy it. (I paid $20.) If nothing else the music is fantastic. Enjoy the trailer on blip.tv or embedded below.

  1. Dave Humphrey’s avatar

    Dave Humphrey on May 5, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    “Sorry! Downloads and DVDs from this web site are only allowed from within the US.” Sux, esp. with so much Canadian Content in the trailer alone!

  2. Christopher Blizzard’s avatar

    Christopher Blizzard on May 5, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    Yeah. :( There’s this page if you poke around a bit:

    http://www3.nfb.ca/webextension/rip-a-remix-manifesto/

    He’s Canadian, clearly, you should poke him if you want to use it in an educational context in Canada. There might be something you can do.

  3. Brett Gaylor’s avatar

    Brett Gaylor on May 5, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    Yup dudes its more that my US distributor is awesome, and they wanted to do it this way. The Canadian download will be available relatively soon as well. Our Canadian distributor basically doesn’t have the ground crew that the US has to be able to make free work for them, so they’re counting on bums in seats and DVD sales, and the problem is that the DVD retailers in Canada won’t stock a film if you can find it online. But once the DVD is out, the game changes a bit. Hope that helps explain things!

  4. David Nielsen’s avatar

    David Nielsen on May 6, 2009 at 1:52 am

    I would love to give this guy my money, it would be a nice addition to my collection of Free Culture movies, however as my options are moving to the US or installing flash to watch an inferior streaming version.. two things that are unlikely to happen.

    To bad it sounds enjoyable.

  5. Adam Guthrie’s avatar

    Adam Guthrie on May 6, 2009 at 9:29 am

    It’s kind of ironic that they chose to use a remix of The Verve’s Bitter Sweet Symphony towards the end of the trailer.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony

  6. Christopher Blizzard’s avatar

    Christopher Blizzard on May 6, 2009 at 10:23 am

    I’m pretty sure that’s by design. :)

  7. Anders Brander’s avatar

    Anders Brander on May 6, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    I watched this on the plane on my way to Libre Graphics Meeting in Canada – great surprise hidden in the in-flight entertainment :)

  8. B’s avatar

    B on August 8, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    Great. More ‘we love the art so much, we have to pull-out the rug from the artist’ propaganda. Lets face it: this is a movement that favors the amateur and pulls the rug out from the professional. Under this system, don’t ever hope to ever get paid for your hard work. I might as well go do manual labor (where I can pay my rent), because my mind and my education has become obsolete according to this.