I have been whining how bad was about the world around me for the last few posts. It's enough, for now. I may do Wireless Defence and Phishing later.

My music is open source.

You may think this is crazy. Or someone already has this idea already (OpenSourceMusic.com). I don't know what I'm doing. No one will care.

Well: This is fantastic. The operator of that site does not know the meaning of 'Open Source'; it's a fucking shame they used this holy phrase without knowing the meaning. I know exactly what I should do and people will care. Thing is, I'm not looking for exposure either.

Why are we doing this?

Recently silencefreedom just quit his memberships in BMI and ASCAP to protest on the ACTA/SOPA supports of those musical organizations. One night he came up on our midnight lounge of IRC and tell me: why doesn't music can be applied to freely sources just like software? Why are we having to chain to these rubbish laws? You can't win an army of pirates. Why not do something that help both sides: them and us?

Both of us, were once warez distributors and crackers. In fact I took part in cracking SecuROM while silencefreedom did Ubisoft DRM and iLok before we abandon the warez path. I understand the pains of both vendor/producer and customer.

We decide to turn words in to action: Our first Open Source Album - Genesis. (source notations and module files will be up within a few hrs, I have hard time with SF's MOD files)

You can: freely share, rip and copy unlimited time. Use in both commercial and non-commercial.

Best part and the reasons of Open Source: You can modify, sample, remix and remake. Just inform/PM either of us first. We stick to hard Open Source here.

What is Open Source?

There is quite a different ideas and facts between free and open source. Software has been using them for pretty long time, think about UNIX and Linux. GIMP instead of PS. Blender? Libre Office? Audacity? LMMS? Buzz? And tons of other tracker?

For source here you can think it's the same or similar meaning as root, core, basic, raw and genesis. In programming, an open source software is a either a free or paid software that have their source codes available for others to modify, view and update. Paid open source software such as ActiveState (Python, C, Perl...) and MySQL (ironically, MySQL becomes the most targeting lang by injection in the SQL family, ever!)

How does this 'Open Source' thingy relate to music?

In software, you must compile the source codes to able to use the packed/translated version of raw codes into machine codes.

In music, you need to render the notations, samples and pre-rendered arrangements into melodies of a track; in order to share the rendered audio file universally without the need for specified program to run.

There are far many free-to-use music than truly Open Source music. There are only a handful of truly Open Source music I have ever encountered.

Demoscene and warezscene are the only 2 official place for free and open source music to 'freely' distribute. We want that boundary to be broken and widen the reality.

Rules of Open Source:

We are with hard OS license here. You can modify, rip... whatever you can think of to do with our works, but you may need to credit or at least to inform us first.

We are going to do a few soft OS license albums later on. Which mean 100% anonymous, for us. Not little exposure. Nope!

Final words:

Silencefreedom is on his glorious way to become a film composer and conductor. He has 2 years left in Berklee. That bastard may do another master. In fact he actually did addition scores and arrangement for the latest sword-n-sandal 'Immortal'.

Me? I'm still a miserable system administrator who is a classic stalker, aka. enemy of any site I visited. I enjoy composing music too. My life my change later when I end my contracts with Husky Energy 2 years later. Where to next? I'm thinking of 3 paths:

- Penetrating tester -- cryptology-related. Good place for me since I'm a regular lurker. No mercy on bugs and sec holes.

- Self-employment programmer/software developer. I can travel and work, at the same time. Telecommuting solves the problem.

- Freelancer -- in both music and computer science. Freelancing in music composition, performance and producing. IT research, FUD, dark IT business tactic, grey data-mining, black intelligence, grey programming, black-box testing. I like my grey fedora better than the old white cap. Although I do like to have a black helmet on sometime, in my life.

Well, we both have the same wishes and ideology: To pursue our goals of transparent intellect properties, to have the freedom to read, write and execute intellect properties without chaining by laws, rubbish laws. We shall not betray the manifestos of freedom intellectual property.

chmod ugo=rwx ~/music

All user privileges are accessible. 777, bitches! Fuck ACTA.