April 28, 2008
An article on change
Here is a great read on how TV is a waste of time and the internet lets you do stuff (its way more interesting then I make it sound).
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March 24, 2008
Wikipedia Takes Manhattan!
Join Free Culture @ Columbia and Free Culture @ NYU on a quest to get the best shots of NYC. Bring your camera and a way to get around town for the biggest scavenger hunt in Free Culture’s history.
Each member of the winning team will receive an iPod shuffle loaded with Creative Commons music! Second and third place teams will win copies of “Wikipedia, The Missing Manual” donated by O’Reilly.
There’ll be a party with free food at Columbia in Lerner Hall at 11:30PM during which the day’s winners will be announced.
What: A city-wide photo scavenger hunt where the pictures will be used on Wikipedia
When: Friday, April 4 @ 11:30am
Where: If you’re starting uptown, come to the sundial on Low Plaza at Columbia University. If you’re starting downtown, meet up with the folks from NYU at Union Square.
February 28, 2008
Weekly Update #4
And here it is, the moment you’ve been waiting for, the meeting minutes!
Now that I’m writing them they get exciting!
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February 27, 2008
RIAA Training Video: Prosecution of Music Piracy
Last week an RIAA training video about how one should go about getting law enforcement officers to help fight physical music piracy (selling of bootleg CDs and the like) was leaked to the public. Apparently most people who traffic pirated CDs also traffic large amount of illegal drugs. (In fact, next time someone tries to sell you a fake cd, tell them you want it “with” and you’ll get whatever the drug special of the day is). This is just another display of the things that the RIAA will say to push the state into doing their bidding. Here is a clip on youtube that shows a snippet from the video:
You can find the full video on popular file sharing sites.
(Thanks gizmodo and wired)
February 21, 2008
Weekly Update #3
And last night we had some electioneering
President: Barack Rodham McCain
Vice President: Hillary Whatever John McCain’s middle name is Obama
Alright I don’t even think these people exist, but you can be sure if they did we would have not elected them to anything.
See the real results after the jump
February 10, 2008
Update of the Week
Heres what we did, and heres not what we didn’t do. Just think about that.
January 31, 2008
pirate bay
It could be going down …
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/pirate-bay-futu.html
January 31, 2008
Weekly Update #2
Look at our consistency! Not like pudding consistency, but like doing things more than once consistency. This is our second weekly update in as many weeks. Just like that two part episode of Happy Days where the Fonz has a hit put on him by the Mob. Except there’s no Fonz, however there is a Mob, and they are called the Content Cartel. Learn how Ritchie and the Fonz plan to outsmart them after the jump. Continue Reading »
January 30, 2008
PRO-IP Bill Reaches New Heights of Absurdity
Ars Technica has a good article regarding a bill going through Congress right now that pushes for even greater monetary damages in cases of copyright infringement. Jammie Thomas was slapped with $9,000 dollars per song, and the bill demands even more. Check out the link to the article below, followed by a link to Public Knowledge’s write-up of a roundtable regarding the bill.
January 24, 2008
Weekly Update #1
Here is the first of (hopefully many) weekly updates. This one even includes the part where we start weekly update. So this is also our first Meta-Update. Click through for the grisly details
