A directory of webcasts on peer to peer related topics with general material on DIY online video.

• If you are to watch one thing: The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version). (For background, see The Machine is US)

• The P2P Foundation supports the Open Video Alliance.

Other Directories

1. The Miro Video Guide at https://www.miroguide.com/genres/
2. The Open Media Directory keeps track of depositories for legal and 'podsafe' content which can be used in webcasts.
3. Check the related E-Democracy Webcasts Directory
4. Don't forget we have a related directory on Podcasts.
5. The Internet Archive has a collection of thousands of Open Source Movies; Legal Torrents: CC-movies distributed through BitTorrent.
6. The Creative Commons Content Curators listing has a directory of open source video material
7. Specialized Directories: Video Creation and Editing‎; Video-sharing Network‎; Video Streaming‎; P2P for Video-sharing‎; Video eCommerce‎; Video Intermediaries for Professionals‎; Video Search
8. 0xdb: massive database collecting metadata on the movies available through filesharing networks
9. Public Domain material: The Public-Domain Movie Database; Wikipedia: Public Domain Films, list of articles about post-1923 theatrical-released films that are in the public domain; Creative Archive Licence Group, material from the BBC, the bfi, Channel 4 and the Open University; Public Domain Torrents, free and legal public domain movies for download via BitTorrent; Video Compilation on Free Digital Culture; Wikimedia Commons Videos, animations and videos distributed under a free license or in the public domain, suitable for educational purposes.
10. Video-sharing sites that accept Creative Commons: this listing includes a sublist for Independent CC Video Productions, a chronological list of Independent CC Movies, Related 'Open License' and Public Domain Video Resources, and much more.

Our Best of Selection

Our Own P2P Presentations

1. Vision Statement
2. Lecture on Peer production, governance, and property. Australia, 2007
3. What is Peer to Peer?. Edited by Valentin Spirik.

Recommended Lectures

1. Eben Moglen on Social Change without Coercion - this is an absolute must see!
2. Mark Pesce on Hyperpolitics, rousing speech on the effects of hyper-empowerment.
3. Chris Cook on Peak Credit and Open Capital: excellent video presentation on an alternative ownership scheme
4. Video: Eric von Hippel on User Centered Innovation: in fact, for a long time already, users (and user communities) have been responsible for most industrial innovations!!

Also:

1. Lawrence Lessig on Open Spectrum. Boing Boing calls it a stupendous video.
2. Lawrence Lessig on how Free Culture Needs Free Software: how the two movements are related
3. Karl Fogel on the History of Copyright and Information Ownership is recommended by the Question Copyright site
4. Howard Rheingold on Smart Mobs for Democracy: what happens when the treshold for collective action lowers significantly?
5. François Grey on the Implications of Citizen Cyberscience

Lists and directories:

1. 50 Awesome Online Lectures on Social Media

Recommended Documentaries

Most recent:

1. Digital Tipping Point, A treasure trove of archival material in preparation of a full open source movie about the impact of free software and open technology on our civilization.
2. Us Now: a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet.

Top recommendations:

1. Good Copy, Bad Copy and Steal This Film: documentaries on copyright
2. Money as Debt: fundamental to understand the inequities inherent in the current monetary system
3. Humanity Lobotomy, excellent open source documentary on the threat against Net Neutrality
4. 24 Hours on Craigslist, on the social aspects of Craigslist
5. RiP: A remix manifesto: documentary on Remix Culture and its Copyright implications

Others:

1. Revolution OS = 2001 documentary on the free sofware / open source software revolution
2. Blogumentary
3. The Next Web Documentary = five interviews on the future of the web
4. Code Breakers
5. Decentralized Energy
6. From Pamphlet to Blog
7. Welcome to the Blogosphere - PBS
8. 60 Minutes on the One Laptop Per Child project
9. Copyright Criminals
10. Luck of Seven, open source journey through the world documenting free culture
11. Makers, on the do it yourself renaissance
12. Second Skin: how lives have been changed by Massive Multiplayer Online Games.
13. The Story of Stuff: the ecologically devastating lifecycle of current products
14. Video: "History of the Internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org.
15. Re Purpose: A look into the hardware hacking community in Montreal, including the Foulab collective

In progress:

1. Truth in Numbers, about Wikipedia
2. Vlogumentary, documentary project on the history of Vlogging, i.e. video blogging [1]

Not about 'P2P' but must-see documentaries:

1. Flow: the fight against the privatisation of the water commons
2. The Century of the Self
3. The Corporation: "a brilliant look at how corporations have all of the rights of a citizen with none of the responsibilities and how totally frightening that is"
4. Crude Impact
5. The End of Suburbia
6. The Future of Food
7. In Debt We Trust, remarkable documentary about personal aspects of debt crisis

Directories:

1. Many documentaries can be seen online through the Documentary Online Network
2. Best Online Documentaries, by topic
3. Free Documentaries: great collection of documentaries viewable for free online. Other good sources for free documentary films online are: moviesfoundonline.com, bodocus.com
4. Documentary Tube
5. Top Documentary Films: watch online or download

Recommended Instructional Videos

This is an absolute must see:

1. The Machine is US

Also:

1. RSS in Plain English; Howard Rheingold Introduces RSS
2. Social Bookmarking in Plain English; Howard Rheingold Introduces Social Bookmarking
3. Wikis in Plain English ; 21 Days of Wiki Adoption
4. Social Networking in Plain English
5. Online Photo Sharing in Plain English
6. Blogs in Plain English
7. Twitter in Plain English
8. Howard Rheingold on Making Stuff in Second Life
9. How to Behave on an Internet Forum

Open Source or Collaborative Open Movies

See also: Open Source Film Making

1. Check out the participatory documentary makers of Plug-in TV !!
2. Indymedia Video Distribution Network
3. OpenFlix and the Public-Domain Movie Database directories, to identify fiction movies

Wikipedia lists:

1. Open Source Movie
2. List of works available under Creative Commons
3. List of open content films

Individual projects:

Fiction:

1. Artemis Eternal: community-funded and supported SF movie
2. Boy Who Never Slept: a full length dramatic comedy released under the CC-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) 2.5 license.
3. Cactuses: a dramatic movie released in 2006 under the Creative Commons CC-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) 2.5 license.
4. Elephants Dream: a 3D short film made using open source software, and released under the Creative Commons CC-BY license.
5. God's Companion, a full length 3D movie made using open source software.
6. http://mashupmovie.wikispaces.com/ Mashup Movie Project], a collaborative open content film to be released under CC-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) license.
7. Nothing So Strange , "an "open source" film. While the filmmakers' final cut of the film itself is protected by an "all rights reserved" copyright, the raw footage that makes up the film is open source."
8. Plumiferos: Argentinian project [2]
9. Route 66: the first full length open source film ever, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license in 2004, and available in English and German.
10. Sanctuary: first shortfilm to use professional actors and crew in a Creative Commons licensed production (2005).
11. Star Wreck: a series of Finnish Star Trek parody movies started by Samuli Torssonen in 1992 [3]; the most successfull internet distributed movie of all time (see also: Iron Sky
12. Swarm of Angels: a movie to be released under the Creative Commons CC-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) license.
13. Unfold, which produced the first Open Source Film Trailer
14. Valkaama, a collaborative Open Source movie to to be released under the Creative Commons by-sa (Attribution-ShareAlike) license 3.0.

Animation:

1. Big Buck Bunny: shortfilm made with the Free Software program Blender; released under the Creative Commons CC-BY license
2. BloodSpell: Machinima series available under CC

Documentaries:

1. BBS
2. CopyCat
3. Digital Tipping Point: a video library and full-length documentary film about the cultural implications of open source software, now in progress on the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection, released under a CC-BY-SA license.
4. Echo Chamber Project
5. Outfoxed
6. Peach
7. Steal This Film
8. War Tapes
9. Weblog Project

Miscellaneous:

1. Stray Cinema, an online competition that requires people to remix a 2-minute film using the source footage from a film shot in New Zealand. Footage released under the CC-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) 2.0 license.

Videosharing: Best Of

1. Mashups, Stop Motion, Animations & Short Films: part of a list compiled by Alec Courosa, focusing on Remix Culture.

Also:

1. Best Online Videos of 2008
2. Viral Video Chart: the most popular at any given time
3. Top 10 viral political videos in 2008 ; Time Top 10 viral videos ; 100 Most Iconic YouTube Videos
4. Lawrence Lessig's choice of best remix culture videos, see bottom of this article
5. Most Watched Viral Videos of All Time
6. List of YouTube Celebrities
7. current understandings and definitions of openness in video through pre-selected video clips, curated by Creative Commons spokesperson and researcher Sanna Marttila and artist-researcher Petri Kola.

For research, see this YouTube Bibliography: "A place to share research sources for the study of online video", maintained by Michael Strangelove.

Our Thematic Indexes

1. P2P Videos on Business and Economics
2. P2P Videos on Culture and Media
3. P2P Videos on Internet Technology
4. P2P Videos on Politics and E-Democracy

Miscellaneous

1. The BBC recommends the five best machinima's of 2007.
2. A Vision of Students Today: a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today, created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
3. Upload Cinema: see the best of online in a real cinema (Dutch initiative); Clip Kino: Finnish initiative

Key Resources

Blogs

1. Plugin Cinema

Also, recommended by Valentin Spirik:

1. The CamcorderInfo Blog http://www.camcorderinfo.com/d/blog.htm is "All About Shooting, Editing and Polishing Your Videos" and has a notable Ethics Policy.
2. Self-Reliant Filmmaking http://www.selfreliantfilm.com/ "is what makes a filmmaker independent"
3. CinemaTech http://www.cinematech.blogspot.com/ is about "Digital cinema, democratization, and other trends remaking the movies"
4. NewTeeVee http://newteevee.com/ focuses on the more mainstream aspects of the online video evolution.

Books

1. Book: 'Plug In and Turn On: A Filmmakers Guide to the Internet. by By Ana Kronschnabl & Tomas Rawlings. Marion Boyars Publishers, 2009'

Directories

1. Top educational video sites

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