We regret to report the sudden, unexpected death of Digital Rights Management. Details of the tragedy at present remain unclear, but he was rushed to the hospital following a direct collision with an oncoming future last week at 10 PM. He was seven years old.
Zuneral Services
May 24th (this Saturday)
6:30 PM
JFK Park, Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA
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We regret to report the sudden, unexpected death of Digital Rights Management. Details of the tragedy at present remain unclear, but he was rushed to the hospital following a direct collision with an oncoming future last week at 10 PM. He was seven years old.
Let us mourn together. You are invited to attend a burial [...]
This hex code has made it’s way across the Internet over the last few days and has caused a great many cease and desist letters to be issued from the AACS LA. The code in question is a 16 bit hex key also known as a “Volume Processing Key” which allows software to decrypt [...]
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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iRony
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.
Cory Doctorow (co-editor of BoingBoing, electronic rights activist, sci-fi novelist, & Creative Commons darling) will be speaking about DRM on Wednesday, February 15, 6PM, in 105 Emerson Hall, Harvard University. The talk is sponsored by the Berkman Center, the Harvard Computer Society, and Harvard College Free Culture. More information here and please download the flier. [...]
