David Aragon, an editorialist at the Washington Square News, has written an Op/Ed on our Boycott of Regal Cinemas: The Washington Post pounced on the story. Sejas was cast as the wide-eyed victim, a whimpering child who offered in her defense, “I’ve never been in trouble before.” The police, unsatisfied, reportedly informed Sejas that the [...]
Thanks to everyone who dropped by our table at the club fair! I’d like to thank Parker and Olga for sticking it out in Coles while I had to make it to class. I also wanted to post that we’ll be modifying our original meeting time from 7pm to 8pm next Wednesday, the 12th, to [...]
Welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful summer. My name is Fred Benenson, I’m a graduate student at ITP and this is the beginning of my last year at NYU. I started this club during my senior year at CAS with some friends and have been fortunate enough to stick around until now. Free [...]
Follow-up: Teen "pirate" at Regal pleads guilty
Thursday, 08. 23. 2007 – Category: News
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 a gross [...]
Boycott Regal Cinemas
Wednesday, 08. 8. 2007 – Category: Events & Recaps, Media, News
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 [...]
NM judge says students can respond to RIAA John Doe suits
Wednesday, 06. 20. 2007 – Category: News
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 the [...]
reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books
Friday, 06. 1. 2007 – Category: News
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 [...]
National FreeCulture.org Conference.
Wednesday, 05. 16. 2007 – Category: News
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. [...]
iTunes Drops DRM for EMI Tracks
Monday, 04. 2. 2007 – Category: News
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 [...]
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 [...]
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