Happy new year Creative Commons fans.

Our first year over, and the Commons Hostage has met it's aims and produced well over twelve different episodes over it's first twelve months. Just look at this list of completed episodes:

* Santa Game
* Ontological Odyssey
* Reddit's Best Joke In Musical Form
* Audio Book of "Do Dream Sheep Bleat?" - FIVE episodes released
* Subgenius Video Ministry on The Conspiracy
* Song based on an apocalyptic dream
* Video of the Sci-Fi party
* A game based on "Joust"
* A video series called "Upload" starring Kaye Conway - TWO episodes released
* A novel about Conspiracy and Consciousness

Ch Ch Ch Changes

This month we announce some changes at the Commons Hostage web site.

You are now able to buy digital downloads of the full serial of completed projects, with the money spent going towards the fundraiser target for releasing the parts freely.

For example, the Do Dream Sheep Bleat Audiobook is complete, all it's parts are recorded and ready to be uploaded. However the fundraising target to release all parts isn't yet reached. So at the top of the page is a "Buy" button and for just two pounds you can buy a DRM-free (of course) download of the entire audiobook for just two pounds.

If you do so, your two pounds will go towards making the other parts free.

You get a complete audio-book, we get money towards releasing the stuff freely.

And to celebrate the change, we've donated cash to make the next part of Dreamsheep freely available too! You can find part six along with the previously freed first five parts on the Dreamsheep Audiobook Project Page.

And of course you can buy the whole unabridged complete audiobook too!

The Comming Year

We've made these changes becasue we're changing direction slightly this year. Rather than putting out a new project every single month, and asking you to fund the development of new parts, we'll be working harder for longer and producing higher quality fully completed serials less often

These will be available for paid DRM-free download from the first day of release, hense the changes to the site.

We're aiming for four this year, and the first should be ready around the end of March. It's a novel written by Craig Stone ( @robolollycop ) and Adam Priest ( @revPriest )and it's under heavy editing as we write.

So fewer projects, but of higher quality with the complete serial available for download from the day of release.

Check back around March, or sign up to be notified at the top of this page.