Florida Free Culture and GatorLUG are planning on participating in Software Freedom Day again this year. We’ll be having a planning lunch this upcoming Thursday. Join us if you want to discuss our events for Software Freedom Day!
What: Software Freedom Day planning lunch
Where: Hillel, 2020 West University Ave (directions)
When: Thursday, August 2nd, from 12:00pm til about 1:00pm
“UF students will groove to their own beats,” by Katy Snell, July 25, 2007.
In the beginning, there was Napster. Later, there came the great flood of free music file-sharing programs including KaZaA, LimeWire and Morpheus. These programs spawned Grooveshark, a new kind of file-sharing system developed by University of Florida students.
“New radio regulations hurt UF-run station,” by Andrew Tan, Independent Florida Alligator, July 17, 2007.
National controversy over the regulation of Internet radio hit home this weekend as WUFT-FM Classic 89, a UF-run public radio station, stopped broadcasting online.
…Escape Media Group Chief Technology Officer Josh Greenberg said the regulations may have an adverse effect on his Web site Grooveshark, a legal music-sharing service.
Update: And they get a dart from Darts and Laurels, July 19, 2007.
These stricter regulations require stations to monitor more closely who is listening to what online. These ominous regulations would severely limit artist exposure and possibly worsen the illegal downloading problem. So we hurl this that-doesn’t-sound-like-a-fair-exchange DART at the money-grubbing company SoundExchange.
Florida Free Culture is a student group at the University of Florida. Our mission is:
We are named for Lawrence Lessig's book, Free Culture, and are a chapter of FreeCulture.org.
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