Department of Alchemy » zune http://doalchemy.org Thu, 24 May 2012 17:03:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Zuneral: The Death of DRM http://doalchemy.org/2008/05/zuneral-the-death-of-drm/ http://doalchemy.org/2008/05/zuneral-the-death-of-drm/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 21:14:00 +0000 Alex Leavitt http://alexleavitt.wordpress.com/?p=30 Continue reading →]]> Yesterday, Harvard Free Culture held a funeral service, or Zuneral, for Digital Rights Management — one that was, according to Dean Jansen, “part viking, part mafia, and part probably something else.” Four members of HFC encased a Zune and an iPod in a bucket of cement, performed a memorial and eulogy, and put a physical manifestation of DRM to rest in the Charles River outside Harvard University.

If you weren’t able to attend the event, I pieced together a video encapsulating the momentous occasion:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UdGX6kMaeY]
Notes:
- Pictures of the Zuneral preparation are borrowed from Christina Xu’s Flickr.
- The marble engravings are from the JFK memorial fountain inside JFK Park.

You can browse the Zuneral photographs tagged on Flickr here.

Also, take a look at DRM is Dead to Me, featured in the video, for the community’s perspective on the life and times of DRM.

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