We are almost done moving to a new web server at Johns Hopkins University. Many thanks to Asheesh Laroia and his colleagues!

After the server crash, our e-mail accounts were not set up correctly and any mail sent to us probably bounced. Our e-mail accounts are back up, so if you were trying to e-mail us before, please try again.

Chapter subdomains were also down, but all of our chapters can now rejoice for their subdomain forwarder addresses should once again be functional.

Mailing lists are the main thing that is still missing, but once we get all of the data from our old server, we should be getting those back up, hopefully by tomorrow.

Freeculture.org is pleased to announce the contest winners for our Down With DRM video contest. We had a lot of great entries, and want to thank *all* of the participants for their submissions. They’ve all contributed greatly to raising awareness in the fight against DRM.

And the winners are (in no particular order):

The winners will all receive a Neuros OSD digital video recorder. Thanks again to Neuros for providing our wonderful prize and to Defective By Design for the support!

So check out the videos, rate them, and send them to your friends to help put an end to DRM.

Our website went down for almost a week when our server died and suffered hard drive corruption. It appears that no data was lost, but it took a long time to retrieve our data and transfer it to a new server. Rest assured that we are taking steps to prevent this from ever happening again. Current plans involve multiple backups on multiple webhosts, and a heavy dose of paranoia. Do not fear, FreeCulture.org still exists, and it is likely to continue to exist for the indefinite future.

UPDATE: Certain parts of our website, including our wiki and mailing lists, are still down. We are working to get them back up as quickly as possible.