Second ORG networking evening
The Open Rights Group is proud to announce that Cory Doctorow, outgoing European Co-Ordinator for the EFF, novelist and editor of BoingBoing.net, will be our special guest speaker at our second networking evening on 7 Feb 2006.
Don’t let Hollywood hijack your rights
Cory Doctorow
American entertainment companies say they’re fighting piracy, but they’re going at it by punishing the innocent to get at the guilty. A pan-European digital television restrictions proposal will turn the studios from companies that can control copying of movies into companies that can control the design of all digital TV devices, that get to define how big your family is allowed to be, that get to take away all the rights you get under copyright law and sell them back to you, one painful, expensive dribble at a time. It’s not really a business plan: more like a urinary tract infection. Europe’s coming Broadcast Flag will ban open source for digital TV, break the devices in your living room, and turn you into a truly captive audience. Get your torch and pitchfork, for this genuinely sucks — and you shouldn’t take it lying down!
This free event is open to digital rights campaigners, grassroots activists, the press and the general public, so please do send this information to anyone you think may be interested.
Refreshments and nibbles will be provided free of charge.
When: Tuesday 7 February 2006, 6pm–9pm
Where: 01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, London, W1F 0HS
Map: http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm
Note: 01Zero-One is sometimes a difficult venue to find if you’ve never been there before. On the corner of Hopkins and Peter Street, you’ll see a featureless brick wall, with nothing but a black door in it. That anonymous black door is the one you want — just ring the buzzer and it’ll be opened for you, if it’s not propped open with a brick, that is.
Only 100 people can attend, so please book your place by signing up on the Open Rights Group wiki.
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January 29th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
If you want the chance to influence things before that time, you should be aware that the chair of Sony BMG Music Entertainment is coming to speak at an open lecture at the London School of Economics.
February 2nd, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Should the title not be iCal rather than hCal ?
February 2nd, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Well, hCalendar is the HTML version of iCalendar; it’s a microformat.
Some browsers, browser plui=g-ins and indexers support it directly.