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Copyfight!

Make P2P-Television

Participative model for television
Hardware/ software installation
June 2004
Exhibitions: University of art and design (HGKZ), Zürich - Rüdigerstrasse, Zürich - Viper Festival (Metaworx), Basel - Les Complices*, Zürich

CopyFight! is a collaborative editorial system for the programming/ editing of a TV station. It consists of a TV-internet interface, an archive for the contents (films) and an editorial interface to manage the actual TV programme.

Using media contents from internet archives and P2P networks Copyfight! enables a small community to run a local (pirate) TV channel. By means of a web interface the viewers decide collaboratly on the contents of their TV channel. Copyfight! thus creates an experimental field between television and internet.




Copyfight! intends to establish a basis for the participation of TV viewers in the process of creating and editing the programme for the TV channel on a community basis. With this, the project aims at a policy of open access and participation.

In its structural design and its intention the Copyfight! software resembles other tools and software which was developed during the nineties for open radio stations and pirate radios. These net-based tools intended to advance the participation of users in open media.

!Mediengruppe Bitnik is currently working on a stable (and better!) version of Copyfight! (One you can install yourself without having to invite us over!) The new, enhanced and definitly beautiful software is due for release in november 2006.




 
 
 
 
 
 
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