[nmglug] highmayhem festival plannings...

[Andres Paglayan]

yeah, yeah,
I am one of those idling, but I promise it is because my wife doesn't 
allow me to take a break until I finish the (her) garden.
I cannot help with icecast since I don't know it and don't wish to learn 
it before October, but I'll be happy to burn CDs on demand at the kiosk 
with my machine if needed.
btw, I am about to patent the sleeping position with the right ear on 
the pillow, so all of you who rest tilted on right side and use a pillow 
should pay me.
My understanding is that very broad patents are not prospering as they 
holders want. From groklaw: "Patents when they are very narrow can be 
programmed around. If a patent is very broad, you have a shot at getting 
it declared invalid."
I don't believe they can hold a patent that stops you from burning a CD 
the copyright holder wants to.


Sam Noble wrote:

>Those of you not idling in #nmglug should be less productive...
>
>If you've missed a few meetings and have no idea what this is about,
>nmglug plans to run a booth at highmayhem's music festival:
>http://www.highmayhem.com/festival.htm
>or
>http://www.highmayhemfestival.org/
>
>Anyhow, there's been discussion of whether we should attempt to get the
>music from the festival into the 'Free Music archive' that we intend to
>have available for burning (or transferring to USB media, sharing on
>GNUnet etc...)
>
>There are a couple issues that have been raised so feel free to chime
>in...
>
>1. There may or may not be a patent issue involved :(
>        see:
>http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1085512916.html
>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=ptxt&S1='live+cd'&OS=%22live+cd%22&RS=%22live+cd%22
>
>2. This could be way too popular, overshadowing anything else we are
>trying to do. And requiring all the resources (person-power + available
>CDRWs etc.) that we will be able to provide.
>
>3. Potentially highmayhem may want to tackle this 'themselves'
>
>So the current submission is that we should focus on doing a great job
>of having the two other goals accomplished; namely:
>
>1. Broadcasting a highly available live feed (icecast)
>2. Having a small (or big?) archive of other Free Music that can be
>shared in the ways already mentioned.
>
>Discuss please...
>  
>


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Andres Paglayan
andres at paglayan.com
Ph: (505) 986-1561
Santa Fe, NM USA

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