[Ecommerce] Open Rights Group networking evening Feb 7 (London)

[Manon Ress]

Cool event in London: The Open Rights Group invite

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/
Second_ORG_networking_evening

What
The Open Rights Group is proud to announce that Cory Doctorow,
outgoing European Co-Ordinator for the EFF, novelist and editor of
BoingBoing.net, will be our special guest speaker at our second
networking evening on 7 Feb 2006.

Don't let Hollywood hijack your rights
Cory Doctorow
American entertainment companies say they're fighting piracy, but
they're going at it by punishing the innocent to get at the guilty. A
pan-European digital television restrictions proposal will turn the
studios from companies that can control copying of movies into
companies that can control the design of all digital TV devices, that
get to define how big your family is allowed to be, that get to take
away all the rights you get under copyright law and sell them back to
you, one painful, expensive dribble at a time. It's not really a
business plan: more like a urinary tract infection. Europe's coming
Broadcast Flag will ban open source for digital TV, break the devices
in your living room, and turn you into a truly captive audience. Get
your torch and pitchfork, for this genuinely sucks -- and you
shouldn't take it lying down!

This free event is open to digital rights campaigners, grassroots
activists, the press and the general public, so please do send this
information to anyone you think may be interested.

Refreshments and nibbles will be provided free of charge.

When and where
When
Tuesday 7 February 2006, 6pm=969pm
Where
01Zero-One Hopkins Street (corner of Peter Street), Soho, London, W1F
0HS
Map
http://www.01zero-one.co.uk/map.htm
Note: 01Zero-One is sometimes a difficult venue to find if you've
never been there before. On the corner of Hopkins and Peter Street,
you'll see a featureless brick wall, with nothing but a black door in
it. That anonymous black door is the one you want =97 just ring the
buzzer and it'll be opened for you, if it's not propped open with a
brick, that is.
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Attendees
Please sign your name below if you wish to attend. Note: We have a
limit of 100 people at this venue, so if for any reason you find you
can't come, please remove your name from the list so that someone
else can take your place.
Suw Charman
Alan Connor
Graham Seaman
Owen Blacker
Mark Levitt
Glyn Wintle
Jon Peterson
Ian Brown
Jonathan Hogg
Micheal Holloway
Simon Willison
Kevin Anderson
Paula le Dieu
Peter Clary
George Walkley
Harry Metcalfe
Frederic de Villamil
James Cox
Tom Phillips
Richard Harris
Frankie Roberto
Ed Jefferson
Simon Thompson
Chris Applegate
Pete Bradwell
Dave Holden
Ben Braithwaite
Dan O'Huiginn
Alex Singleton
Thom Sanders
Mark Sayers
Rodolfo Rosini

SNIP
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www.cptech.org

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