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		<title>Tonight on Twitter: The Oscars.</title>
		<link>http://blog.starwreck.com/2010/03/07/tonight-on-twitter-the-oscars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jarmo Puskala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the Oscars with the Iron Sky team on Twitter. Continue reading for live feed of our Tweets. If you use twitter do say hello, at least @energia and @leonblank will be awake.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Oscars are upon us &#8211; as is Energia&#8217;s live tweet. And Timo will be on tv on <a href="http://www.nelonen.fi/ohjelmat/oscar-gaala-2010/etusivu">Nelonen&#8217;s Oscar studio</a> after 3AM (Finnish time).</p>
<p>In case you don&#8217;t use Twitter yet, below are Widgets of all the tweets from me (@energia) and Timo (@leonblank) and the Finnish Oscar discussion. They should update with the latest tweets. But we&#8217;ll see how Twitter copes with the huge amount of people sure to be Tweeting tonight.</p>
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<p>And the Finnish Oscar discussions, in Finnish, most probably. Vaihdan #hashtagiksi sen jolla on eniten juttua.</p>
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		<title>Watch the Oscars with us!</title>
		<link>http://blog.starwreck.com/2010/03/03/watch-the-oscars-with-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jarmo Puskala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timo will be on tv commenting the Oscars gala on Nelonen. Jarmo will be home, but tweeting it all. So join us to watch the Oscars on Sunday!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://blog.starwreck.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/82nd_Academy_Awards_poster.jpg" alt="" title="82nd_Academy_Awards_poster" width="228" height="332" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1503" />Right now tanker trucks filled with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botox">Botox</a> are running 24/7 to LA to make sure all the important people are wrinkle free next Sunday, for the 82nd Academy Awards.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.ironsky.net">Iron Sky</a> gang will still be in Finland, so thankfully we are not required to paralyze our faces. But we&#8217;ll be watching. It doesn&#8217;t matter how many Botox jokes I make, Oscars are still the highlight of the film year and absolutely unmissable. Especially with <strong>Alec Baldwin</strong> and <strong>Steve Martin</strong> hosting the gala.</p>
<p>Thanks to the miracle of time zones the Oscar gala starts at 3AM monday here in Finland. But we&#8217;ll be staying up late to watch the Oscars. Our director <strong>Timo</strong> will be on TV commenting the gala live <a href="http://www.nelonen.fi/ohjelmat/oscar-gaala-2010/etusivu">on Nelonen</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be on a comfy sofa at home, chatting about the Oscars on Twitter and IRC. Timo will try and join the Tweeting as well. So follow <a href="http://twitter.com/energia">@Energia</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/leonblank">@LeonBlank</a>. </p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t use Twitter programs I&#8217;ll make a blog post on Oscar night and add streams of our tweets and the general Oscar discussions. </p>
<p>See you sunday!</p>
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		<title>Voddler closes down until March.</title>
		<link>http://blog.starwreck.com/2010/02/24/voddler-closes-down-until-march/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jarmo Puskala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got an email from Voddler, the &#8220;Spotify for films&#8221;, that they will be closing down until March 8th. There are not too many users to be affected by this, but it&#8217;s a sign of some more interesting things to come:
Voddler was exposed to an attempted security breach. The Voddler Client, the media-player, was attacked [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just got an email from <a href="http://www.voddler.com/">Voddler</a>, the &#8220;Spotify for films&#8221;, that they will be closing down until March 8th. There are not too many users to be affected by this, but it&#8217;s a sign of some more interesting things to come:</p>
<blockquote><p>Voddler was exposed to an attempted security breach. The Voddler Client, the media-player, was attacked and we take seriously to all offences towards Voddler, our members and the content. Therefore we have decided to close the service until the new website is launched. </p>
<p>The new Voddler will feature web-based movie-player, search tool and mouse control. With a completely web-based movie service Voddler is confident to be able to meet the ever-growing demand for a great selection of free and rentable movies in an accessible environment. The sparkling new Voddler service will not only satisfy the Swedish movie-viewers but the time has come to invite Norway, Denmark and Finland.</p></blockquote>
<p>I got the invite couple of months ago, but haven&#8217;t really used the service except for testing. Even in the client form it was a promising service, way beyond any other VOD system in the Scandinavian countries: meaning it was actually possible to watch films with it! Actually, it was pleasant enought I can&#8217;t really complain. Most of the films were free with a couple of pre-roll ads before them. The selection wasn&#8217;t great and the new films were only available for rent, but all in all it was as nice as watching videos on a computer can be. I still prefer the sofa and tv, but that&#8217;s no fault of Voddler.</p>
<p>Now the coming Flash player should make things even more interesting. It will be interesting to see how tv channels react. My inner optimist is already thinking about the possibility of having a Scandinavian Hulu, but that&#8217;s probably too much to hope for. I&#8217;ll be happy if we get a VOD service that actually works.</p>
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		<title>How often should you post on Facebook?</title>
		<link>http://blog.starwreck.com/2010/02/23/how-often-should-you-post-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jarmo Puskala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook has become the place where many people spend most of their online time. And it&#8217;s way more personal place than say, MySpace. Because of this I think it really does matter how often fan pages post updates. If it&#8217;s too often it can get annoying. But how often should you update? In the spirit [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1492" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 510px"><img src="http://blog.starwreck.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/how_often_facebook_updates.png" alt="How often should you post updates on Facebook?" title="How often should you post updates on Facebook?" width="500" height="198" class="size-full wp-image-1492" /><p class="wp-caption-text">How often should you post updates on Facebook?</p></div>
<p>Facebook has become the place where many people spend most of their online time. And it&#8217;s way more personal place than say, MySpace. Because of this I think it really does matter how often fan pages post updates. If it&#8217;s too often it can get annoying. But how often should you update? In the spirit of democracy we asked <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ironsky#!/posted.php?id=15060155415&#038;share_id=323014118905&#038;comments=1#s323014118905">fans of Iron Sky</a> how often they&#8217;d like to see updates on from us.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%253A%252F%252Ftwtpoll.com%252Fe3cz8g&#038;h=a9aeb8c3827fe5a91e630289bb827ef2&#038;ref=share">167</a> people responded. Turns out almost half thought once a week is good. While 18% would like daily updates only 5% would like to see several updates a day.</p>
<p>That said, social media is not about doing it by numbers. That means we&#8217;ll still post updates when we&#8217;ve got something to say, even if it&#8217;s more often than once a week. But now I can stop worrying if Facebook should be updated as ofen as Twitter &#8211; it shouldn&#8217;t. </p>
<p>On a larger scale, this is just a small poll and you shouldn&#8217;t read too much into it. But what I think is safe to say is that you shouldn&#8217;t syndicate all your Twitter updates to your Facebook page. The two services are used differently and need to be treated as such.</p>
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		<title>Philip K. Dick and the Neo-Nazi plot to start World War III.</title>
		<link>http://blog.starwreck.com/2010/02/19/philip-k-dick-and-the-neo-nazi-plot-to-start-world-war-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jarmo Puskala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October 1972 sci-fi author Philip K. Dick contacted the FBI. You&#8217;d be forgiven thinking that maybe he was worried about photocopiers that now (since 1968) could infringe on copyrights in full color! Or maybe a case of plagarism. After all, in ten years time his novel &#8220;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep&#8221; would go [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1479" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://blog.starwreck.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/pkd_oraakkelin_kirja.jpg"><img src="http://blog.starwreck.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/pkd_oraakkelin_kirja-150x150.jpg" alt="Philip K. Dick - Oraakkelin Kirja (Man in the High Castle)" title="Philip K. Dick - Oraakkelin Kirja (Man in the High Castle)" width="150" height="150" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-1479" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Finnish cover for Man in the High Castle</p></div>
<p>In October 1972 sci-fi author <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_k_dick">Philip K. Dick</a></strong> contacted the FBI. You&#8217;d be forgiven thinking that maybe he was worried about photocopiers that now (since 1968) could infringe on copyrights in full color! Or maybe a case of plagarism. After all, in ten years time his novel &#8220;<em>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep</em>&#8221; would go on to be adapted as <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/">Blade Runner</a></em>, one of the greatest science fiction films of all time. </p>
<p>But, let&#8217;s not forget this is Philip K. Dick we&#8217;re talking about, so it turned out to be something far more bizarre.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I am a well-known author of science fiction novels, one of which dealt with Nazi Germany (called MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, it described an ‘alternate world’ in which the Germans and Japanese won World War Two and jointly occupied the United States).<br />
&#8230;<br />
I bring this to your attention because several months ago I was approached by an individual who I have reason to believe belonged to a covert organization involved in politics, illegal weapons, etc., who put great pressure on me to place coded information in future novels ‘to be read by the right people here and there’, as he phrased it. I refused to do this.”</p></blockquote>
<p>His house had been burglarized a year earlier and Philip K. Dick had become convinced the crime was politically motivated. More specifically, be believed it was the work of Neo-Nazis, possibly due to the anti-nazi tone of Man in the High Castle. So, naturally, he concluded that Nazis were also behind this sinister worldwide organization that was blackmailing science fiction writers into including secret messages in their works.</p>
<p>Apparently, the plan was to &#8220;decode&#8221; this information in the future and release the startling findings to the public. It was to concinve people, that a virulent and deadly new form of Syphilis (that did not really exist) was being spread in the US by foreign agents. This was to be seen as the first strike of World War III and compel the US to respond, starting the full-scale nuclear war.</p>
<p>How the Nazis would have benefited from this was not clear, but hey, even the best writers love Nazis as villains because everyone knows they are so evil they don&#8217;t really need a motivation for perpetrating unspeakable acts of destruction..</p>
<p>In the end the FBI decided this strange case of &#8220;Solarcon-6&#8243; did not warrant further study. Possibly wisely, considering that it&#8217;s now safe to say WWIII did not start over Syphilis and that two years later, in 1974, while recovering from dental surgery Philip K. Dick started to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_k_dick#Mental_health">receive messages from God</a>.</p>
<p>You can read the whole story of Solarcon-6 in the latest issue of the <a href="http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/2860/the_strange_tale_of_solarcon6.html">Fortean Times</a>. Registration required, but it&#8217;s free.</p>
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		<title>Iron Sky Signal #8 – Fan Meeting in Berlin</title>
		<link>http://blog.starwreck.com/2010/02/16/iron-sky-signal-8-fan-meeting-in-berlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janos Honkonen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A big chunk of the Iron Sky team is attending this year&#8217;s Berlinale film festival. These festivals are about watching films, but also about doing business. From a filmmakers perspective a festival like this is a chance to meet and find funders, distributors, sponsors and so on. Everybody&#8217;s clamoring to be noticed and the days [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A big chunk of the <a href="http://www.ironsky.net/" >Iron Sky</a> team is attending this year&#8217;s <a href="http://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html" >Berlinale film festival</a>. These festivals are about watching films, but also about doing business. From a filmmakers perspective a festival like this is a chance to meet and find funders, distributors, sponsors and so on. Everybody&#8217;s clamoring to be noticed and the days are full of meetings with people, who could help with the movie project one way or another. Then, of course, there&#8217;s the side that&#8217;s more fun: premieres, parties and generally meeting cool people, like movie makers from other countries.</p>
<p>For the Iron Sky team this has been a working trip. In addition to the business side we have done some casting, worked on the script, discussed about the budget and so on, but luckily there has been a bit of time for other stuff as well.</p>
<p>This time we didn&#8217;t do any crazy <a href="http://blog.starwreck.com/2009/02/25/iron-sky-signal-4-berlinale-paperboy/" >marketing stunts</a>, but got instead a last minute idea about doing a fan meeting. We got the idea on Monday and decided to have the meeting on Saturday &#8211; never mind that we didn&#8217;t have an idea how to contact our Berlin fans or what would be a good venue to this. Enter the internet and the social media: using our <a href="http://www.ironsky.net/demand/" >Demand to see Iron Sky</a> -system and the <a href="http://www.wreckamovie.com/" >Wreckamovie.com</a> we got in touch with our Berlin fans and found a simply incredible place for the meeting, a club called <a href="http://www.c-base.org/" >c-base</a>. In the end about 40-50 fans showed up, which was really great especially on such a short notice!</p>
<p>How did it go? Come join us in the fan meeting in the latest episode of Iron Sky Signal!</p>
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<p>Intrigued about c-base? Here&#8217;s their own video about the place.</p>
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<p>All in all, so far it has been both a very fun and very productive Berlinale for us. We got to meet a nice bunch of our local fans, a lot of grass roots level work for the movie project got done, we were featured in <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/" >The Hollywood Reporter</a> and the Zombies got to <a href="http://zombieroom.net/60th-berlin-film-festival-diary-1-meeting-the-legends-renny-harlin-and-ville-valo/" >meet cool people</a> and see some <a href="http://zombieroom.net/60th-berlin-film-festival-diary-3-exit-through-the-gift-shop-by-banksy/" >quality cinema</a>.</p>
<p>Still a couple of days to go!</p>
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		<title>Avoin vastine Kaisa Rastimon blogikirjoitukseen</title>
		<link>http://blog.starwreck.com/2010/02/12/avoin-vastine-kaisa-rastimon-blogikirjoitukseen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kollektiivi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vihreiden tietoyhteiskuntatyöryhmä on saanut uuden jäsenen, Kaisa Rastimon, joka on tunnettu kotimaisella elokuva-alalla mm. tuoreesta Myrsky-elokuvastaan. On hyvin mainiota, että tietoyhteiskuntaryhmään saadaan myös taiteilija- ja sisällöntuotantopuolen edustajia, mutta Rastimon aihetta käsittelevä blogaus on hieman huolestuttava: Kaisa Rastimo: &#8220;Tietoyhteiskunnan kehittäminen ei ole nörttien yksinoikeus&#8221;
&#8220;Nörtit&#8221; vastaan &#8220;oikeat ihmiset&#8221;
Tekstistä huokuu melko tiukka ja keinotekoinen kahtiajako &#8220;nörttien&#8221; ja &#8220;tavallisten [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vihreiden tietoyhteiskuntatyöryhmä on saanut uuden jäsenen, Kaisa Rastimon, joka on tunnettu kotimaisella elokuva-alalla mm. tuoreesta Myrsky-elokuvastaan. On hyvin mainiota, että tietoyhteiskuntaryhmään saadaan myös taiteilija- ja sisällöntuotantopuolen edustajia, mutta Rastimon aihetta käsittelevä blogaus on hieman huolestuttava: <a href="http://web.me.com/kaisa.rastimo/www.kaisarastimo.fi/Blogi/Merkinnt/2010/2/7_TIETOYHTEISKUNNAN_KEHITTMINEN_EI_OLE_NRTTIEN_YKSINOIKEUS.html" >Kaisa Rastimo: &#8220;Tietoyhteiskunnan kehittäminen ei ole nörttien yksinoikeus&#8221;</a></p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Nörtit&#8221; vastaan &#8220;oikeat ihmiset&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Tekstistä huokuu melko tiukka ja keinotekoinen kahtiajako &#8220;nörttien&#8221; ja &#8220;tavallisten perheenisien&#8221; välillä. Sanaa &#8220;nörtti&#8221; hoetaan blogauksessa siinä määrin tiuhaan ja aggressiivseen sävyyn, että äkkinäistä lukijaa alkaa huolestuttaa, rakennetaanko tässä nyt juoksuhautoja sen sijaan, että haettaisiin yhteisymmärrystä.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nörtti&#8221;-leimalla lyödään näissä keskusteluissa yleensä ihmistä, joka tietää tietotekniikasta ja nettimaailman realiteeteista enemmän kuin vastakeskustelija. Tästä voidaankin jatkaa siihen, että &#8220;nörtti&#8221; on selvästikin parikymppinen lapseton mieshenkilö, joka haluaa ladata kaiken netistä ilmaiseksi ja sallia lapsipornon koska se on sananvapauskysymys &#8211; ja niin ne olkiukot kahisevat. Todellisuudessa tästä &#8220;nörttien&#8221; joukosta löytyy niitä ihan tavallisia perheenisejä ja -äitejä, jotka vain sattuvat tietämään, miten digitaalisessa maailmassa asiat makaavat.</p>
<p>Hieman ironiseksi tämän nörtittelyn tekee se, että Rastimo kertoo järkyttyneensä siitä, kuinka hänen elokuvansa Myrsky on laitettu jakoon vertaisverkkoihin. Rivien välistä on luettavissa, että tätä pidetään nimen omaan &#8220;nörttien&#8221; tekosina. Kun kuitenkin tarkastellaan sitä, millainen elokuva Myrsky on &#8211; eli mainio ala-asteikäisille ja koko perheelle tarkoitetu seikkailu &#8211; se ei perinteisesti nörteiksi miellettävää kansanryhmää juuri kiinnosta. Henkilöt, jotka Myrskyä netistä lataavat ja levittävät, ovat tavallisia perheenisiä ja -äitejä: näitä Facebook-faijoja, joille tietokoneiden käyttäminen on arkipäivää. Siis juuri tätä tavallisten ihmisten kansanryhmää, jota Rastimo maalailee pahojen &#8220;nörttien&#8221; vastakohdaksi.</p>
<p><strong>Piratismista prostituutioon ja huumekauppaan</strong></p>
<p>Oma lukunsa on se, että kertoessaan yrityksistään ladata elokuvaansa netistä Rastimo paljastaa, kuinka vähän hän kyseisestä maailmasta tietää. Hän oli päätynyt sivustolle, joka tarjosi mainoksia vähäpukeisista naisista ja vaati luottokorttinumeron syöttämistä. Ongelma tässä on se, että kyseessä ei ole vertaisverkkopalvelu, vaan aivan puhdas huijaussivu, jolla ei ole mitään tekemistä oikeiden latauspalveluiden kanssa.</p>
<p>Tästä päästiinkin jo aivan uudelle kiertoradalle kun epäiltiin, myyvätkö köyhät thai-perheet lapsiaan netin musiikin ja elokuvien seassa, ja väitettiin, että nettioperaattorit tienaavat piratismilla, prostituutiolla sekä huume- ja asekaupalla. Tämä on yhtä absurdia kuin väittää, että autokauppiaat tienaavat välillisesti samoilla aloilla, sillä kuljetetaanhan prostituoituja, huumeita ja aseita autoilla. Ne kaikki myös käyttävät sähköä, joten epäiltyjen rintamassa lie myös Helsingin Energia?</p>
<p>Ennen tällaisten johtopäätösten tekemistä kannattaisi ehkä kuitenkin perehtyä hieman enemmän itse aiheeseen. Tällaiset kommentit ovat toki kovaa poliittista valuuttaa jolla kerää sympatiaa nettimaailmaa ja tietotekniikkaa tuntemattomilta äänestäjiltä, mutta todellisuuspohjaa niillä ei ole.</p>
<p><strong>Lasten suojelu ja pesuvesi</strong></p>
<p>Kirjoituksessa puhutaan myös hyvin paljon lastensuojelusta netissä sekä lasten suojelemisesta haitalliselta aineistolta ennakkosensuurin avulla. Tässä lie viitataan nettisisällön ennakkosensuuriin, josta päällimmäinen esimerkki on viime vuosina paljon keskustelua herättänyt lapsipornon suodatuslista. Sitä helpompaa riidanaloittajaa ei tietotekniikkaa tuntevien ja siitä mitään ymmärtämättömien välillä juuri ole.</p>
<p>Ironista ja todella, todella ärsyttävää tässä keskustelussa on se, <em>että kumpikin osapuoli on </em><em>samaa mieltä</em>: lapsiporno on paha asia, sen levittäminen pitää estää ja sen tekijät pitää saada edesvastuuseen. Kukaan näissä keskusteluissa ei ole sallimassa lapsipornoa sananvapauden varjolla, kuten sensuurilistojen vastustajien usein väitetään tekevän. Ero keskustelijoiden välillä on vain se, että toiset tietävät mitkä tällaisten estolistojen realiteetit ovat, toiset kuvittelevat että estolistalla materiaali poistuu netistä ja ongelma on ratkaistu.</p>
<p>Blogauksen kommenteissa estolistan realiteetteja on esitelty useilla vertauksilla. Herää kuitenkin kysymys, mitä mieltä Rastimo olisi siitä, jos jonain päivänä Myrsky-elokuvan nettisivuilla tulisikin vastaan tieto siitä, että poliisi on sulkenut sivuston koska se sisältää lapsipornoa &#8211; ilman mitään tietoa mihin tästä voi valittaa? Kaukaa haettua? Ei ollenkaan, se riittää että samalla IP-osoitteiden alueella joku laittaa sivustolle kuvan, jonka poliisi tulkitsee lapsipornoa sisältäväksi. Tällä henkilöllä ei tarvitse olla mitään tekemistä elokuvaprojektin kanssa, vaan palvelimen asetuksista riippuen hän voi työskennellä täysin eri firmassa. Se voi olla myös ihan puhdas vahinko, tai kuvatiedoston on voinut sivuille sujauttaa joku keppostelija tai pahantahtoinen henkilö. Tilannetta selvitellessä voi sitten miettiä sitä, ettei se ongelmallinen kuva ole kadonnut netistä mihinkään, vaan se jää sinne kaikkien niiden selailtavaksi, jotka jaksavat viettää viisi minuuttia sensuurilistaa kiertäen. Tämä on nykyisen järjestelmän realiteetti.</p>
<p>Jos omia lapsiaan haluaa suojella netin kyseenalaiselta materiaalilta, se on äärimmäisen helppoa. Netistä löytyy useita suodatusohjelmia, jotka voi asentaa lapsensa koneelle, minkä lisäksi modernien käyttöjärjestelmien mukana tulee ilmaisia sisältösuotimia juurikin perheiden käyttöön. Ne eivät toimi täydellisesti, mutta suodattavat suurimman osan haitallisesta materiaalista. Mikä tärkeintä, kuten eräs kommentoija sanoi: me muut emme ole sinun lapsiasi, meille tulevaa tietoa sinun ei pidä suodattaa.</p>
<p><strong>Piratismi ja tekijänoikeudet</strong></p>
<p>Visaisempi kysymys on, mikä on ratkaisu toisaalta piratismin, toisaalta tekijänoikeuksien sekä ansaintalogiikan välillä. Riippumattomissa tutkimuksissa yhteys nettilataamisen kasvun sekä sisällöntuottajien tulonmenetysten välillä ei ole ihan niin suoraviivainen kuin maalaisjärjellä voisi olettaa &#8211; paljon lataavat esimerkiksi ostavat enemmän musiikkia, elokuvia ja muuta materiaalia kuin ne, jotka eivät lataa sitä netistä ollenkaan. Hyvin varmasti voidaan sanoa, ettei jokainen nettilataus ole automaattisesti yksi myyty levy tai leffa vähemmän.</p>
<p>Tulevaisuus tällä alalla näyttää tällä hetkellä kuuluvan niille, jotka eivät ole kiistan kummassakaan ääripäässä, vaan ymmärtävät sekä sisällöntuotantoalan että nettimaailman realiteetit. Nettilataaminen ei lopu, vaikka oikeuteen haastettaisiin kuinka monta varatonta opiskelijaa tai perheenäitiä. Kun suljetaan yksi sivusto, kaksi muuta aukeaa sen tilalle, kuten kävi taannoisen Mininovan tapauksessa. Toisaalta nykyinen sisältöteollisuus ei ole valmis ilmaislevitykseen asenneilmapiirin sekä rakenteensa takia.</p>
<p>Maailma on muutoksen tilassa myös tällä osa-alueella &#8211; nyt etsitään niitä kompromisseja ja vedetään niitä linjoja, joilla sisällöntuotanto ja levittäminen tulevat toimimaan seuraavat vuosikymmenet.</p>
<p><strong>Ylilyönneistä yhteisymmärrykseen</strong></p>
<p>Ylilyöntejä näissä keskusteluissa tapahtuu kummallakin puolella. Tietotekniikan taitajat turhautuvat selittämään samoja asioita sinänsä hyvää tarkoittaville henkilöille, jotka puolestaan uskovat siihen, että pelkkä hyvä tahto ratkaisee ylitsepääsemättömätkin tekniset ongelmat. Myös teknisten taitajien puolella on idealisteja, joiden ajatukset eivät välttämättä kohtaa tosimaailmaa, mutta hekin yleensä tuntevat tekniset rajoitukset. Verkkomaailmaa tuntevien pitäisi vain kärsivällisesti jaksaa selittää, miksi maalaisjärjellä hyvältä kuulostavat ratkaisut ovat huono idea niin teknisesti kuin eettisesti.</p>
<p>Harras toive olisi, että näissä keskusteluissa pystyttäisiin katsomaan näiden nörttileimojen ohi ja kuuntelemaan, mitä tietotekniikkaa tuntevilla ihmisillä on aiheesta sanottavana. Rastimon kommenteissaan esittelemä asenne siitä, ettei hän halua keskustella piraattien kanssa, koska &#8220;<em>asiantuntemukseni tekijänoikeuksista, sisältötuottamisesta ja sen rahoittamisesta, levittämisestä ja jakelusta on niin eri tasolla kuin heidän tietämyksensä ko. aiheesta</em>&#8220;, vetää aika helvetin hiljaiseksi ylimielisyydellään. Linjaus siitä, ettei keskustelua kiinnosta edes aloittaa, <em>koska on niin paljon parempi kuin vastapuoli</em>, ei varsinaisesti edistä rakentavaa ja kestäviin ratkaisuihin tähtäävää keskustelua aiheesta.</p>
<p>&#8230;ja yhteisymmärrys sekä kestävät ratkaisut ongelmiin lie se, mikä näiden keskustelujen päämäärän pitäisi olla?</p>
<p><strong>- Janos Honkonen</strong></p>
<p><strong>-</strong> <strong>Timo Vuorensola</strong></p>
<p><strong>-</strong> <strong>Jarmo Puskala</strong></p>
<p><em>Allekirjoittaneet ovat koko vuosituhannen tienanneet elantonsa tekemällä tekijänoikeuksen alaista luovaa työtä ja sisällöntuotantoa. </em></p>
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		<title>In Berlin this Saturday? Come see us!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you in Berlin this weekend, specifically on Saturday at 19:00, and there&#8217;s nothing in your schedule? We are arranging a small fan meeting in a very cool venue close to Alexanderplatz. You&#8217;ll get the chance to hear Timo talk about the movie, to ask him questions about Iron Sky, to see some of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you in Berlin this weekend, specifically on Saturday at 19:00, and there&#8217;s nothing in your schedule? We are arranging a small fan meeting in a very cool venue close to Alexanderplatz. You&#8217;ll get the chance to hear Timo talk about the movie, to ask him questions about Iron Sky, to see some of the movie materials up and close &#8211; and of course to kick back a couple of beers while doing this.</p>
<p>If you are interested in showing up, drop an e-mail to <strong>janos at ironsky net</strong>, and we&#8217;ll tell you more!</p>
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		<title>Griffin Trailer Released.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jarmo Puskala</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trailer for the Wreckamovie developed cybercrime series Griffin has been released. ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zTcSwSeNo">Trailer</a> for the Wreckamovie developed cybercrime series <a href="http://www.wreckamovie.com/griffin">Griffin</a> has been released. The trailer was lauched at <a href="http://www.f-secure.com/">F-Secure</a>’s SPECIES conference in Vienna and F-Secure is also supporting the Griffin series by giving its insight into the fight against cybercrime.</p>
<p>Good hacker films are still hard to come by. Hollywood makes some lovingly crafted films about gamblers and conmen, but if the con uses computers they usually freak out and decide it absolutely can not be interesting unless they put in explosions and completely make up how computers work. Often this creation of non-existent technologies is to make it all more &#8220;accessible&#8221; to the average viewer. </p>
<p>The funny thing is that the &#8220;average viewer&#8221; is not going to blow up military bases by hand-coding a blowfish-encrypted, 3D-accelerated supervirus &#8211; but he is the target of the real world cybercrime. And there are enough stories about real cybercrime to fill a terabyte hd with films and tv-shows. Just ask F-Secure&#8217;s <strong>Mikko Hyppönen</strong> for some war stories. <strong>Timo</strong> did when they first met some years ago and I know he still has several story ideas about cybercrime he wants to do.</p>
<p>So you guessed it, Griffin is inspired by the real stories. And developed by people who use the real internet and <a href="http://www.wreckamovie.com">Wreckamovie.com</a>. Or as the press release puts it:</p>
<blockquote><p>Griffin is a made-for-Internet TV series of fictional episodes about online crime, developed by a web community of enthusiasts on the Wreckamovie platform, in co-operation with Internet operators. </p>
<p>The six-part series tells the story of <em>Griffin Sharp</em>, a good guy with a complex past in the world of cybercrime. Each Griffin episode takes place in a different country, and will be produced by local start-up crews and volunteering enthusiasts. F-Secure and the Wreckamovie community are inviting major Internet operators for partnership in this innovative project, which will bring the drama of the fight against cybercrime to millions of people worldwide. This approach will also help consumers understand modern IT threats in a better way. </p></blockquote>
<p>Anyone can join the Griffin community and be part of creating the story at <a href="http://www.wreckamovie.com/griffin">www.wreckamovie.com/griffin</a>.  To watch the trailer, go to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/FSecureNews">www.youtube.com/FSecureNews</a>. The Griffin series will be distributed free of charge on the Internet.</p>
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		<title>Crowd Controls connects distributors to the grass roots level buzz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crowd Controls connects distributors to the grass roots level buzz
The distributors and funders of a movie are always faced with the same question: how much interest there is from the public to see this movie in theaters? A new web service called Crowd Controls aims to answer this question. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Crowd Controls connects distributors to the grass roots level buzz</strong></p>
<p>The distributors and funders of a movie are always faced with the same question: how much interest there is from the public to see this movie in theaters? A new web service called Crowd Controls aims to answer this question. </p>
<p>Crowd Controls is a tool for filmmakers, musicians and other artists to find where the audiences are located around the world and to guide distribution. Crowd Controls consists of a map and a web form that can be embedded in the artist&#8217;s web site. The fans can leave their vote to see the artist in their home city easily, with no need to register. An easy-to-read map shows fans and casual visitors the locations of the other voters, and the system gives the artists a wealth of information and statistics about the votes. Since the users leave their votes using their e-mail address, Crowd Controls is also an excellent tool for sending out locally targeted news, promotions and other information about the movie.</p>
<p>Filmmaker and software developer <strong>Brian Chirls</strong> built a prototype of the system for the creators of the independent film &#8220;Four Eyed Monsters,&#8221; who succeeded in showing their film in dozens of cities around the United States. Chirls has since developed the system as a service, and it has been adopted by the upcoming science fiction comedy &#8220;Iron Sky,&#8221; which takes the concept a step further by mobilizing a large, international online community well in advance of production.</p>
<p>In the world of &#8220;Iron Sky,&#8221; the Nazis fled to the Moon in 1945, and in the year 2018 they are coming back. &#8220;Iron Sky&#8221; is the second movie project of the creators of &#8220;Star Wreck,&#8221; an internet hit that gathered over eight million viewers around the world. &#8220;Iron Sky&#8221; is a Finnish-German co-production, it has a budget of over five million euros and its cast includes <strong>Julia Dietze</strong> (1½ Ritter), <strong>Götz Otto</strong> (Schindler&#8217;s List, The Downfall). <strong>Tilo Prückner</strong> (The Neverending Story, Die Fälscher) and <strong>Udo Kier</strong> (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark). Since October, the fans of Iron Sky have been able to show their support for the movie using Crowd Controls.</p>
<p>&#8220;Filmmakers are beginning to realize that they can&#8217;t always count on a distributor to deliver an audience, &#8221; says Chirls.  &#8220;The ability to collect and visualize audience data eliminates much of the guess work in releasing a film, making it more valuable to distributors and exhibitors or enabling a DIY release.  Crowd controls also empowers the fans to make themselves visible to filmmakers and each other, particularly in places that might have otherwise been considered too small or remote to justify a release.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our movie Iron Sky already has a very strong net presence and a large and active fan base online&#8221;, commented the director of Iron Sky <strong>Timo Vuorensola</strong>. &#8220;Crowd Controls sounded immediately like just the kind of system that fits the way we work. It gives the fans a direct way to support the movie in a very concrete way. Having a map full of red dots, each of them a fan who has registered using his own e-mail address does a ton of good when talking with the distributors and sponsors. It&#8217;s also a great way to reach fans in a certain area and to contact them directly &#8211; for example, we are arranging a fan meeting during the Berlin film festival, and with Crowd Controls, we can reach out to our fans in Berlin with invitations.  That kind of personal interaction gets fans excited about helping to spread the word and makes for a richer experience with the film.&#8221;</p>
<p>You can see Crowd Controls in action on the Iron Sky website: <a href="http://www.ironsky.net/demand/">http://www.ironsky.net/demand/</a></p>
<p>A video introduction on how to use the system: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/energiaproductions#p/u/0/95dWsPU54nM">http://www.youtube.com/energiaproductions#p/u/0/95dWsPU54nM</a></p>
<p>The Iron Sky team will attend Berlin film festival February 11 through 17 and will be available for interviews. Contact Janos Honkonen (+358-40-7475967), janos@ironsky.net, Skype: janoshon</p>
<p><strong>Crowd Controls</strong></p>
<p>Information and press materials: <a href="http://crowdcontrols.cc/">http://crowdcontrols.cc/</a><br />
Contact: <a href="http://crowdcontrols.cc/contact/">http://crowdcontrols.cc/contact/</a><br />
Brian Chirls: <a href="http://chirls.com">http://chirls.com</a></p>
<p><strong>Iron Sky Press materials</strong></p>
<p>For press materials, such as photos and video, head over to <a href="http://www.ironsky.net/press/">http://www.ironsky.net/press/</a></p>
<p><strong>Iron Sky in Social Media</strong></p>
<p>Web: <a href="http://www.ironsky.net/">http://www.ironsky.net/</a><br />
Blog: <a href="http://blog.ironsky.net/">http://blog.ironsky.net/</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/energia">http://twitter.com/energia</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/ironskyfilm">http://twitter.com/ironskyfilm</a><br />
Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ironsky">http://www.facebook.com/ironsky</a><br />
Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/ironskyfilm">http://www.flickr.com/ironskyfilm</a><br />
YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/energiaproductions/">http://www.youtube.com/energiaproductions/</a></p>
<p><strong>Behind the Iron Sky</strong></p>
<p>Iron Sky is a scifi movie that takes place in the year 2018, when the Nazis, who fled the Earth to the dark side of the Moon in 1945, return to claim the Earth. The film is Finnish-German co-production with a budget of over five million euros. It&#8217;s directed by Timo Vuorensola and produced by Tero Kaukomaa (Blind Spot Pictures), Samuli Torssonen (Energia) and Oliver Damian (27 Films). The cast includes Julia Dietze (1½ Ritter), Götz Otto (Schindler&#8217;s List, The Downfall). Tilo Prückner (The Neverending Story, Die Fälscher) and Udo Kier (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark), and the screenplay is written by the acclaimed sci-fi writer Johanna Sinisalo (Nebula Award nominee 2009, Finlandia 2000). The film will be released in 2011 and distributed by Stealth Media Group.</p>
<p>Information, photos and videos: http://www.ironsky.net/, <a href="http://www.ironsky.net/press/">http://www.ironsky.net/press/</a></p>
<p>The first film of Vuorensola and Torssonen was Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning &#8211; a fan-made sci-fi parody, which was published both as a free download and as a commercial DVD. The film has reached over eight million viewers all around the world and gathered a strong international fan base.</p>
<p>Information and photos: <a href="http://www.starwreck.com/">http://www.starwreck.com/</a></p>
<p>The Star Wreck project gave birth to a collaborative movie creation platform called Wreck a Movie, which offers the film creators a direct connection to their audience, and offers the fans the kind of chance to interact with the movie project that has never been seen before.</p>
<p>Information: <a href="http://www.wreckamovie.com/">http://www.wreckamovie.com/</a></p>
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