Free Culture @ NYU

“What if the web were created today?” A scary thought.

Here’s something a little different…Hollywood is planning to push for film distributors to embed an inaudible watermark in the soundtracks of films released to theaters. Then, if approved by the DVD Forum, HD DVD players would be required to have a special sensor that listens for the watermark and refuses playback if it is [...]

Here is the detailed article about the new DRM Sony is using that I talked about at last night’s meeting:
Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far
For those that weren’t there, it’s about this new DRM software which uses a poorly-designed rootkit to completely mask its presence on your system. Not only does [...]

Well the DRM protest was a smashing success. We had plenty of people, from Free Culture @ NYU and other groups show up and hand out over a thousand flyers. We also met plenty of consumers who were shocked, dismayed, and saddened by the news that the CDs that they had just bought probably won’t [...]

Hopefully done.

I’ve updated the site with a bunch of possibly useless plugins. My acheivement for this hour was the theme but of course, since it’s partially in Bulgarian, I need to go through some edits.
I hope that everyone will register an account so that I can set up posting privileges.

Welcome to the Free Culture @ NYU blog… Its been a long time coming.. more updates soon.

This site has been launched