Justin Dickinson
Helps Make the Internet

vimeo:

Today is a big day - one of the biggest in the short-ish history of our small-ish company. For the past year (37 years in Internet time), we’ve been working nonstop on a project that we’ve desperately wanted to tell you about. Because, frankly, it’s all about you. Our willpower muscles are pretty much at the breaking point right now, and so we are doubly ecstatic to finally let the tiger out of the satchel and make this officially official announcement: We built you a new Vimeo.

To learn more about these new big things in more detail, head over to vimeo.com/new. It’s also the place where members can sign up to try the new Vimeo as we roll it out over the next few weeks. Go ahead - you know you want to check it out!

This is big news. Go see what all the fuss is about.

Look at that. There’s a new Vimeo.

Read more here and here.

josephschmitt:

pile:

THIS FOOTAGE WAS ASSEMBLED FROM SOURCES OPERATING UNDERCOVER AT GREAT RISK.

Big, BIG announcement tomorrow. And here’s the mandatory blurry-cam photo to prove it.

More evidence. Something is coming.

ridiculouslyawesome:

blakewhitman:

BIG release tomorrow morning. Like, really big.

Not sayin’… Just sayin’…

I’ve already said too much.

Baller (Taken with instagram)

(Source: chatsandstuff)

Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture. Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent. There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever. So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: “stole”) other peoples creative works, without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they’re all successful and most of the studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations - it’s all based on being able to re-use other peoples creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create. If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing other peoples rules. The reason they are always complainting about “pirates” today is simple. We’ve done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them). It’s all based on the fact that we’re competition. We’ve proven that their existance in their current form is no longer needed. We’re just better than they are.

— The Pirate Bay’s Press Release regarding SOPA

mattjames:

The popped dog collar.

Someone help me make and sell this. OR someone make and sell this and then someone else help me sue that person.

Matt, I will go into business with you selling these. To Kickstarter!

vimeo:

If you see this big red alert on Vimeo today, it’s because we’re trying to save the Internet. Join the fight against SOPA and PIPA at http://americancensorship.org