Free Culture Boston and the Computing Culture group at the MIT Media Lab are hosting an iPod liberation party. They will be helping people install RockBox or iPodLinux on their iPods — freeing them from Apple’s file type, and DRM, limitations.

I don’t own an iPod (I bought an iRiver instead precisely because of the ogg support). Seeing this post though makes me want to go out and buy a stylish iPod just to put RockBox on it.

Thanks to the Lossless Audio Blog for bringing this event to my attention (even though I don’t live in the Boston area). I’m very curious about these alternatives to the standard Apple software and would love to hear from people who are using RockBox or iPodLinux.

And the, now, obligatory haiku:

Can you hear the sound –
The thrash of a song bird’s wings
in a small white cage