Steal This Film Creators are Calling for Coders

by Sam Dean - Jun. 05, 2008Comments (1)

The creators of the copyright-critical movies Steal This Film and Steal This Film 2 are building a platform called VODO aimed at helping filmmakers get paid for releasing their works on file-sharing networks. The idea is to make VODO a feature of P2P clients as well as media players, so users can donate right when they download or watch a free movie. VODO also wants to use video fingerprinting to reliably recognize downloaded movies so that filmmakers can get their fair share. VODO is announcing a "code sprint" for developing a GPL video fingerprinting tool and is testing the GPL Foosic libraries for this application. Find out more at NewTeeVee, and if you're interested in open source filmmaking efforts, check out our review of Big Buck Bunny.

 


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While they are trying to address the problem, I really don't see them being successful at this. Let us face it. Not too many people donate. Look at the Causes application on Facebook. A large number of users. Very little raised by way of donations...

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