[Imc-beirut] please read..[Fwd: Leaded Unleaded]

[rawane at riseup.net]

hello, i had this email from a guy i met in montreal while showing leaded
unleaded and he said that he knew how to put the movie on the net, so i
proposed if he can try...
so this is his email..
for his questions, the year is 2004, copyleft, the web page can be the
indemydia page plus a link and does someone have the english synopsis that
we wrote?

for any comments please reply, i will reply to sean when i will have an ok
but please if some tech person like mohamad :) can have a look at the link
below..
kisses all

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Leaded Unleaded
From:    "Sean McBride" <cwatson at cam.org>
Date:    Sat, October 15, 2005 9:56 am
To:      "rawane" <rawane at riseup.net>
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Hi Rawane!

I hope you remember me, we met in Montreal a few months ago at the
screening of your documentary Leaded/Unleaded, I gave you a ride to the
metro on my bike.

Well, believe it or not, I have been working over the months on getting
your film onto the internet.  It has been harder than I thought!  I
borrowed the DVD from Mary Foster and made a copy easily, but converting
it to a smaller format was problematic.  For some reason every program I
tried worked but resulted in a file with no sound!  I finally found a
better program the other day, and it worked great.

The next problem was putting it on the internet.  I don't know if you
are familiar with Bittorrent, but that is the technology that will work
best for our needs.  However, it needs a special service known as a
'tracker', and I had lots of trouble finding one.  But the other day, it
occurred to me that indymedia _should_ have a tracker, and so I checked,
and they do!

So now everything is finally ready!!!  But I wanted to talk to you
before proceeding.

First some info:

Here is some info on the bittorrent technology:
<http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/BitTorrent>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent>

This is the indymedia bittorrent tracker:
<http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/IndyTorrents>

So, before I proceed, do you still want to do this?

Assuming so, a few bits of info would be good:
 - the year of release of the film
 - is there a Leaded/Unleaded webpage?
 - what is the licence? copyleft? public domain?
 - do you have an 'official' description of a film?  Like a 1 sentence
summary/description.

Talk to you soon,

Sean

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                         cwatson at cam.org
Mac Software Designer               Montréal, Québec, Canada