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31.03.03 NGV and Viral Video Project: independent TV channels on the Net.
NGV, New Global Vision is a constantly updated visual database where anybody can add his vhs-quality video to download and watch at home and/or to record on a tape or CD. "The contents must be expressed by the movement, by anybody's own critical conscience, by those who produce free culture and information". This phrase by the NGV collective clearly states the goals of this project: to create online video channels, independent and very cheap. NGV was born from the collaboration of people working on the Net who share the same attitude towards the collectivization of technological means, the sharing of knowledge and resources and the free diffusion of knowledge. For this reason, NGV uses open standards and free software. Right now a very large visual archive of the movement is available on the file sharing networks. They encourage everybody to keep these videos online to help them achieve the maximum possible visibility, a clear demonstration of the fact that the enjoyment of these videos, too, can be peer-to-peer, using the opportunities offered by broadband access to the Net to create a truly horizontal visual communication. Among their video productions are: Candida TV, Visual Communication Project, VideoAssalti, Indymedia Italia, AHA Television, Deep Dish TV, Akkraak, Le Tecniche, Polivisioni, Paper Tiger TV. The Viral Video Project, too, uses the same means of enjoyment and diffusion of its video material: "Freedom is a virus, spread the disease". The idea was born from the growing worries for the state of information in Italy, especially regarding the interferences of the political power on information and justice. To defend freedom of thinking, it's possible to download videos on italian political and judicial events. Everybody's asked to share these files on p2p networks to spread them as much as possible: all of them, in fact, are distributed with a copyleft license.
Tatiana Bazzichelli