Swap Meet
Piracy – Karaoke – Conviviality
Saturday, October 15
8pm till late
Free
All Hallows Eve-Eve-Eve Edition
We know you’ve been asking yourself: how could Swap Meet possibly be any better?
- Secret basement hideout? Check.
- Sneaker net file sharing? Check.
- Hand-crafted karaoke? Check.
- Foos Ball table? Check.
- Plastic fun balls? Check.
- Playing Dig-Dug on an old C64 monitor? Cha-Heck.
Well we finally figured out what was missing:
Dry. Ice. Fog.
Come to Betalevel to commune with the dark forces of piracy. And since no one will be able to see you (because of all the fog!) maybe even sing a little.
Spooky pirate zombie movies will be served.
Costuming at your discretion.
Bring:
- Your singin’ voice & dancin’ shoes
- Your iPod / laptop / hard drive stuffed solid with Hottt Muzik Filez
- An inner sense of joy in the face of our eroding cultural freedoms
- Donation $$ for Dr1nXx and Sn4xx0rz
- if U = 2 + poor { bring(Dr1nXx) }
Please note:
According to recent legal decisions, inducing anyone to use physical space for the purpose of sharing music may render the space-time continuum illegal. Use the space-time continuum at your own risk.
Links
- Thomas Jefferson: “he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me”
- Ron’s Karaoke 2 U – easy download of over a thousand .kar files
- Kar Universe – thousands of multi-lingual .kar files
- Hymn Project – decrypt your iTunes Music Store purchases
- How to get music off an iPod – by Engadget
- Senuti – replace iTunes, unlock iPods
- iLinkPod – reveal “hidden” iPod files
- EphPod – unlock iPods with Windows
- ml_iPod – iPod Winamp plugin
- Illegal Art – illegal
- Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
- Creative Commons – copyright alternative
- The Internet Archive – public domain culture
- Electronic Frontier Foundation – pioneers
- Anti-DMCA – the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hates you
- RIAA Radar – find members of the RIAA, so you can ignore them
- Downhill Battle – fighting a dying business model
- Copyfight – at Corante
- Zeropaid – file sharing software comparison
Pamphlet [PDF] by The Royal Academy of Nuts + Bolts