Jhannet Sejas, who sparked our Regal boycott, pleaded guilty yesterday to “one count of unlawfully recording a motion picture in violation of state law.” She got off relatively easy, receiving a $71 fine (she was facing a max of $2,500 and a year in jail). However, the principle still stands that this was [...]
Free Culture @ NYU is joining the call for a chain wide boycott of Regal Cinemas over their draconian punishment of a 19 year-old girl caught taping 20 seconds of the Transformers film. We demand that Regal Cinemas drop all charges against Jhannet Sejas, and that the entertainment group issue a full apology to the [...]
In a victory for college students who are also file-sharers (at last count, nearly all) and the American justice system, a judge in New Mexico has issued a ruling that blocks the RIAA’s usual method issuing subpoenas to identify file-sharers. Basically, the RIAA would usually file ex parte applications to reveal the identity of [...]
Well this is very cool. Andrew showed me reCAPTCHA. The idea is to use a little test that kills two birds with one stone. One of the birds is comment spam (though Akismet and Spam Karma 2 have been doing a wonderful job here). And the other bird is the hard-to-recognize digitizations of public domain [...]
The Free Culture.org National Conference to be held on Saturday, May 26, in Austin Hall at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Registration is still open and free of charge. Please email us or reply to the Facebook Event to register. Housing is also still available, but please email ASAP to secure it.
The schedule is below. We will [...]
Breaking news… This is not an April Fools joke: iTunes will release significant portions ALL of EMI’s catalog on iTunes without DRM. From the press release:
EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire
EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli today hosted a press conference at EMI’s headquarters in London where he announced [...]
We’ll be having a general meeting tomorrow, Tuesday at 8pm. This week we’ll be talking about the updated plans for our music event (Have you guys heard of the Hype Machine?) and what we can do to help nudge NYU into the right direction in the face of the RIAA.
Free Culture @ NYU, General Meeting
8pm, [...]
Next Thursday Free Culture @ NYU will be hosting Ray Beckerman for a round table discussion:
Ray Beckerman
of Recording Industry v. The People and Vandenberg & Feliu, LLP.
6:45pm Thursday March 22nd 2007
Room 324 of Furman Hall at NYU Law School
245 Sullivan Street b/w Washington Square South and W.3rd Street
Co-Sponsor: Information Law Institute Law Student Association
Free and [...]
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A wonderful error message greated me today in my “Personal Information” section on BlackBoard: Oracle does not fully support CLOB manipulation (inserting or updating) using a PreparedStatement. Instead you must manipulate the CLOB through the [...]
Steven P. Job’s heart to heart about DRM certainly drew the ire of some in the recording industry; but perhaps it is a bit premature to assume all of the big 4 would really react in concert to calls for the end of copy protection. There are now rumors that EMI is considering selling its [...]