We’re hosting an event this Friday (10/6) at the MIT Media Lab. Anyone who can make this definitely should - it will be a lot of fun and it will give us a chance to start planning what sort of role we want Free Culture (at least, in Boston) to have as a community-wide organization.

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Liberate Your iPod!

Friday, October 6, 7-9pm

MIT Media Lab
“The Cube” E15-001
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Map
Close to the Kendall Square Subway Stop

Come celebrate Defective By Design’s week against DRM this Friday. Free Culture Boston and the Computing Culture group at the MIT Media Lab are hosting an iPod liberation party. Attendees will be able to switch their compatible iPods (or other mp3 players) to run on free and open source DRM-free software. Additionally, these iPods will work without Apple’s iTunes software (i.e., your music is not hidden), will play patent- and royalty-free music formats (e.g., OGG Vorbis and FLAC), and a variety of games and applications.

Attendees will also be invited to DJ off of their newly liberated iPods and we’ll have Defective By Design giveaways and goodies.

If you have already liberated your iPod (either with RockBox or iPodLinux) you are highly encouraged to show up and to help others.