Recently I've become fascinated with the creative commons <http://www.creativecommons.org> licenses. For me this is a movement that recognizes artist's desire to protect their work, but also to share it with the world in such a way that not only works for the consumer of the art, but indeed *empowers* them to consume and use the art in ways the artist sees fit. This is realization of a legal way to /copyleft <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft>/ my artistic output. It's very similar to the Open Source software worlds So I've made some sweeping changes to this site <http://xenlab.ezrpm.com/> and the way I share and distribute my art. Well, not so sweeping in anything that you can 'see' but really in the way I want to empower you dear reader to consume, reuse, sample, destroy, create derivative works, and save, broadcast and share the art in any way you see fit. It's sort of a multi-prong attack: . All the tracks that are posted here are now archived on archive.org <http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collectionid=xenlab_-_demo&collection=opensource_audio> . This site and it's content is now clearly licensed under the Creative Commons sampling+ License. I've linked to the license in human, legal, and machine readable formats, as needed. Please note that quoted material in my blog, and the content on the sites I link to is not covered under this license, obviously. However, everything from my XHTML/CSS source code, to the graphics, to the tracks of mine that I post are all explicitly meant to be released and shared under the creative commons license <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/>. . I'm in the process of adding Bit Torrent <http://www.bittorrent.com> downloads of all the tracks I post. This is still in the testing phase, but I invite all of you to download my tracks via the torrent links in the .music section and help me seed them for a while. New to Bit Torrent? Check out this FAQ <http://dessent.net/btfaq/> to get started. It's a file swarming p2p protocol, and it's the fuckin' bee's knees for sure. I hope you enjoy these changes. Comment at my blog <http://xenlab.ezrpm.com/index.php?id=41> on send me an email: eric (at) ezrpm (dot) com ... I'd love to hear what you think about these changes. This is actually something I've been planning to do for a while. Now is the time. I invite you to explore more about CC <http://www.creativecommons.org> and copylefting in general, and if you're an artist or label owner - abandon the increasingly draconian Copyright system and move in a direction that fosters not only creativity, but protects your art and art - *itself* - in a way that is inopressive and let's art be free... even if you plan on charging money for it, now or later. My apologies if you receive this more than once. I thought this message warranted cross-posting to lists that I'm active on. -- mad love, .eric * * *xenlab (music) { * / .nfo + d.load =/ http://xenlab.ezrpm.com/ <http://xenlab.ezrpm.com> *}*