Libre Culture

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What is libre culture?

Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.

Some beliefs include but aren't limited to:

That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
That we can all band together to help liberate each other.

Check out this link for more.

Rules

I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.

Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
Please keep posts generally on topic
No NSFW content
When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title. For example: “Project name and summary (GPL-3.0)”

Libre culture is a very very broad topic, and while it's perfectly okay for a conversation to stray, I do ask that we keep things generally on topic.

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Everyone here may be familiar with the MusicBrainz project. But much like Wikimedia, the foundation behind the project has quite a few lesser known open data projects:

AcousticBrainz acoustic information

ListenBrainz user listening habits

CritiqueBrainz music reviews

BookBrainz information about published literature

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

The Brainz projects are really great. I wish they would build an equivalent one for movies / tv.

Another one I would love is a torrents metadata project. Some of these movie, discography, or album torrents have been around for years, they aren't going anywhere, and it'd be nice if someone would make a kind of infohash to metadata wiki.

[–] Lofenyy@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

The torrenting idea sounds really cool. Torrents are an amazing technology and they're definitely underused. Imagine if the Libre world regularly distributed, say, lossless music albums via torrents that were catalogued and easily searchable. Actually now that I think about it, the creator of Funkwhale might actually be interested in this idea! I'll shoot a suggestion in their direction, but I wouldn't be surprised if they've already thought about it haha.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 years ago

Imagine if the Libre world regularly distributed, say, lossless music albums via torrents that were catalogued and easily searchable.

This is my other main project: https://torrents-csv.ml

That's a sample server there (which is kinda slow because it got added to a LOT of indexers), but you can also self host it locally. The entire database of pretty much all common torrents is actually pretty tiny, only about ~70 MB, which is why its impossible to take down things like the thepiratebay, so I just decided to create an open source .csv repo of them.

You can search for not only all popular torrents, but also the files within torrents, so like https://torrents-csv.ml/#/search/file/frasier%20s05e08/1 .