#Machinima has its roots in the early cracker and demoscene - stunters who'd use the games' sprites to create splashscreen animations in tribute to their prowess.

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As highly customizable games like Doom hit the market, the scene intensified, excited by the prospect of actual feature film production on the cheap, assisted by game-engines.

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Pioneers like Hugh Hancock stretched the realm of possibility with incredible and heroic efforts, but Hugh died before he could see his vision bear fruit - today, major studios use game engines to animate movies and shorts all the time.

gamasutra.com/view/news/3144…

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I always think of Hugh and get a little sad smile when I see this stuff in the wild. Today, I found this: a remake of Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime starring G-Man from Half-Life, created by @CoreyLaddo.



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It's nothing short of spectacular - exactly the kind of creative, playful experiment Hugh dreamed of.

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A great hero of the copyright wars is @realdjbc, AKA Bob Cronin, creator of the amazing groundbreaking #Beastles mashups, a virtuosic combination of the Beastie Boys and The Beatles:

djbc.net/thebeastles/co…

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DRM is a system for prohibiting legal conduct that manufacturers and their shareholders don't like.

Laws like the US DMCA 1201 (and its equivalents all over the world) ban tampering with DRM, even if no copyright infringement takes place.

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In 2014, I gave a keynote at Museums and the Web on the suicide-mission of cultural institutions that had decided to sacrifice access - making their collections as broadly available as possible - for revenues (selling licenses to rich people).

mwf2014.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/glam-and…

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I argued that rich people didn't want museums, they wanted to own the things the museums had in their collections; so if museums eschewed universal access to get crumbs from plutes, they'd end up with rich people slavering to dismantle them and no public to help them resist.

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ppmanifesto.hcommons.org

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Later, John and I became writing colleagues, attending workshops together, and then friends - for decades now. His work remains weird, erudite, accessible, madcap and brilliant.

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