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title: Idea date: 2005-03-05 11:57:07

I'm listening to CCC: Revolved right now. It's not bad; She Said Traffic and Close To No One are quite good. But you just know they're a lawsuit away from being yanked from the net. Why not just publish the source code for these mash-ups? Assume the person making it finishes mixing Iron Maiden's Run To The Hills with Modest Mouse's It's All Right On Ice, Alright. Instead of writing an Ogg, their editor publishes a Makefile: take the first eleven seconds of this song and loop it while playing the last eighty seconds of that song through an echo plugin, then play the bit from Dirty Harry where he says "well, do ya, punk?" You download the Makefile and compile your own Ogg using your own sound files. I'm sure the record companies would find a way to complain (ie, sue), but this would partly be the point: are you allowed to do things with your own media or not?