jahshaka 3.0*

Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down. It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise.

How do you kill the movie and TV industries? Or more precisely (since at this level, technological progress is probably predetermined) what is going to kill them? Mostly not what they like to believe is killing them, filesharing. What’s going to kill movies and TV is what’s already killing them: better ways to entertain people. Whatever people are going to do for fun in 20 years is probably predetermined. Winning is more a matter of discovering it than making it happen. In this respect at least, you can’t push history off its course. You can, however, accelerate it.

Find out more at http://ycombinator.com

SOPA has been sent back to the drawing board. ‘The move came shortly after the Senate postponed a key vote on the companion PIPA bill scheduled for next week and amid calls for consensus before Congress moves forward on any legislation to address the problem of foreign piracy websites,’ as written by the Los Angeles Times today. Hopefully the next draft of this bill will create a better foundation to stop piracy and not just assert control over the internet

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We just wanted to share the new Jahshaka logo and branding with you that will go out when we launch 3.0. Its a cooler, freasher logo and we think its awesome! Please let us know what you think!

It was created by Neosims as a part of the Jashhaka 2.0 animation contest (you can see his animation here)

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Just a heads up, we have a soft launch of JahTV online at www.jahtv.com. JahTV will be a online promotional platform and will be linked to in the new Jahshaka releases. The idea is to create a easy way for people to publish and promote the content they create with Jahshaka and other open source content creation tools. JahTV is very simple and uses youtube for its back end, and is built on top of WordPress – open source supporting open source!

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Heres the original design that was done up for the jahshaka 3.0 editor, it would be great to get your thoughts and feedback on it. The editor is avid styled but still fits in with the overall look and feel of jahshaka 3.0 and will have smooth integration with the desktop and media management system.

We are working on the designs for the 3d node based compositor which will be last to go up as they need a lot of work. As always, your feedback is priceless so let us hear what you think!

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