2006-11-08 05:00:02
Last month, the MIT Media Lab Computing Counter Culture Group and the Harvard Free Culture Group held an"iPod Liberation event" -- a RockBox and iPodLinux"installfest" for Apple iPods. The event was held as a response to the fact that Apple installs iPods with an operating system -- a"firmware" -- that conflicts with the ideals of free and open source software and free culture and treats users parternalistically and adversarially. During the event, dubbed iRony, users were walked through the process of installing flexible and featureful free/open source software firmware -- without DRM -- onto their digital audio players. 

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