BETALEVEL

Piracy – Karaoke – Conviviality

Saturday, August 6
8:30pm till late
Free Admission

With drugs and terrorism now consigned to the forgotten rubbish heap of history, America has renewed its commitement to the future by finally — finally — appointing a Piracy Tsar.

Upon his elevation, the Tsar strode onstage wearing a huge feathered hat and velvet cape, and fixed the gathered throng with a stealy gaze. Pointing his bejeweled rapier vaguely in the direction of Chinatown, the Tsar proclaimed that the enemies of the Empire shall pay for their insolence. Then, he clasped one mailed hand into a shaking fist above his head before hurling the gauntlet to the ground. And then he spit. A big wet one.

Well met, Piracy Tsar. Well met.

Prove to the Tsar that you are worthy of his scorn — come to Betalevel with your storage media in hand and a song in your heart as we search for the true meaning of peer-to-peer!

Cupcakes will be served.

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 dyning business model
• Copyfight – at Corante
• Zeropaid – filesharing software comparison

Pamphlet [PDF] by The Royal Academy of Nuts + Bolts