http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog promoting cultural participation and the free flow of information since 2005 Thu, 22 May 2008 21:22:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/2008/05/22/zuneral-this-saturday/ 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 ... http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/2008/05/19/zuneral/ Here at Harvard College Free Culture, we're all mostly recuperating from the seven-month adventure that was the creation and execution of ROFLCon (which was, by the way, a smashing success!). However, in a downhill battle like ours, victories keep on rolling in even while we rest. Today it was announced ... http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/2008/05/07/harvard-law-school-goes-open-access/ Yesterday, the Crimson published an op-ed encouraging students to participate in our Free Thesis Project, the online open-access repository of undergraduate theses that members of Harvard FC built last year. It only has 19 submissions in it now, but we hope this op-ed will really raise awareness about it and ... http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/2008/04/11/crimson-op-ed-about-free-thesis-project/ Damian Kulash, lead singer of OK Go, has written this great op-ed in the New York Times supporting net neutrality. It's concise, targeted towards a non-techie audience, and very convincing. Additionally, he and fellow band member Andy Ross (who codes for the Participatory Politics Foundation)  have recently been asked to ... http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/2008/04/06/ok-go-supports-net-neutrality/ On Monday the 25th, the FCC had a hearing here at Harvard Law School. This may sound C-Span boring, but the day was actually quite full of excitement. For starters, Comcast paid off a number of people to warm seats--and we do mean for starters, because there were 35-40 of these ... http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/2008/02/28/fcc-hearing/ Despite the almost year-long blogging hiatus on the site (sorry!), Harvard College Free Culture hasn't just been sitting idly since our national conference last May (which, by the way, was a lot of fun and very productive: check out the pictures here and here). So what have we been up to ... http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/2008/02/20/long-time-no-blog/ Just in case you haven't heard, we'll be hosting the National Free Culture Conference this coming Saturday, May 26 in Austin Hall at Harvard University. The schedule is up, and we've added a new set of working groups to each session. It's not too late to RSVP -- email freeculture ... http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/2007/05/22/conference-mania/ 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" ... http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/2007/05/01/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0/ Meet us this Friday the 13th, 5pm at the OLPC office (One Cambridge Center on the 10th floor, near Kendall Sq) for a website unveiling, wiki seeding, and ice cream eating party. The site is a massive resource for learning how to Make Internet TV (hence MITV). We'll give a ... http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~freeculture/blog/2007/04/05/mitv-the-13th/