MPAA violates copyright
The MPAA’s program for monitoring Universities has been taken down for its infringement of Copyright. According to boingboing, the wiretapping software, based on Xubuntu operating system, did not satisfactorily provide the sources for their spyware.
College students - 1, MPAA big brother - 0.
FLEFF kicks off tonight
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival begins in just a couple hours, and Brink couldn’t be more excited. This is the third year Ithaca College has taken over the week-long festival (it used to be at Cornell), and since then, it has expanded to include more than 100 events, including film screenings, lectures, presentations and art exhibitions. And what do they mean by “environment”? Lots of things ? not just trees and furry critters. The festival’s directors, Patricia Zimmermann and Tom Shevory, explain how this festival is redefining the word here.
Tonight is the festival kick-off event, “Memescapes,” which is a performance featuring a live music score ? composed and performed by Judy Hyman, Jeff Claus (of The Horseflies), Rick Hansen, Jay Olsa, and Robby Aceto ? set to archival film footage and digital images. The performance will also include spoken word. IC does a lot of these multimedia collaborative projects ? really interesting to watch. And it’s not often you can experience silent films the way they were meant to be experienced: with live music. The event starts at 8 p.m. in Park Hall.
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