EFF & Aerosmith Rock the Net - Update - Where/When/How

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

EFF Presents the Aerosmith World Tour of Cyberspace!
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You can meet and talk with Steven Tyler and other members of Aerosmith,
live online, from Dec. 4 through Dec. 7, 1994, at Prodigy, CompuServe,
America On-Line, or any of a number of Internet sites.  To participate in this
first-time-ever event, log in to one of these online services, and proceed
to the appropriate forum or virtual auditorium.  If you've never done this
before, you should contact the Customer Support department of the service
you wish to use.  For the help with the Internet event, contact your local
system administrators.


Note: This information will be periodically updated as necessary.  You may
wish to send a message to aerosmith () eff org to get up-to-date information
the day before or the day of the event.


WARNING: You are strongly advised to connect with the online service you
wish to use the day before the event, and become familar with the system.
Even experienced users should arrive for the event at least 10-15 minutes
early.  If you have trouble getting through to customer support reps to
become a new member of an online service, visit your local software store.
Most such stores provide signup packages for all of these online services.


Aerosmith, one of America's premier rock bands, has long supported freedom of
expression and other civil liberties, and has become increasingly
concerned with censorship in cyberspace. Aerosmith is teaming up with the
Electronic Frontier Foundation to host a series of online appearances to
benefit the Foundation and help spread awareness of civil liberties issues
in the online world.  The historic Internet event, linking multiple Internet
'MOO' services for the first time and providing the world's largest
virtual realtime conference in history, is being coordinated by SenseMedia,
sponsors of ChibaMOO, and many volunteer MOO programmers and admins.
Additional sponsors and helpers include many staffers at CompuServe,
Prodigy, and America Online, as well as Giant Merchandising, _Wired_
magazine, Apple, MusicLand, Electronic Frontiers Australia, and the EMI,
Columbia and Geffen recording & media companies.




When, Where and How to "get there"
==================================




CompuServe (CIS)
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Sun., Dec. 4, 1994
7pm-8pm (EST) in the CompuServe Auditorium


How to get there: call your local CompuServe access number, and after login,
enter "go aerosmith", either at the commandline, or by choosing the "go" menu
option if you are using a graphical CompuServe program. This will take you
to the Aerosmith menu, from which you can branch to the EFF forum, become
a member of EFF, order limited edition t-shirts, go to the Recording
Industry Association forum, or proceed directly to the Aerosmith event in
the Auditorium.  If you visit one of these areas, you need to do "go
aerosmith" again to get back to this menu. To get copies of your
autographed Aerosmith graphic, visit the RIA file library ("go record"),
and to download exclusive Aerosmith sound files see the EFF file library
("go eff").


You must be a CompuServe member to attend.  The CIS event will be a closer,
more intimate gathering, with a "seating" limit of 300 participants.


Contact CompuServe Customer Support at 1-800-848-8199 or 1-800-848-8990




Prodigy
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Mon., Dec. 5, 1994
10pm-11pm (EST) in the Prodigy Chat Area


How to get there: on the day of the show, just select the Aerosmith frontpage
item.  Before the day of the show, do a "Jump chat" (via the "J" button on
your Prodigy program's toolbar at the bottom of the screen), to get more info
on the event and visit the forum.  You must be a Prodigy member to attend.


If you are new at this:
Login to Prodigy.  Do Jump (with the J button) Plus.  In the Plus service
household member access, give yourself and any other of your household user
IDs access to plus services.  Log out.  Log back in (to make the changes
take effect.) Now Jump Chat.  Since this is your first visit to the Chat
forum, you have to select access control, give yourself and any other IDs
you control (if you wish) access to the Chat forum.  Then pick "Change
Nickname" from the Chat menu.  Pick a chat nickname. After this it would
be a good idea to pick the new "Set-up Options" button that will appear on
the Chat menu, pick your choices, then (again from the Chat menu) pick
"About Chat" and read this help text.  It is strongly advised that you do
all of this, and test out the chat function the day *before* the event, so
you are not caught up in this configuration process just before (or, worse
yet, during) the event itself.  If you are not the account holder (i.e. if
your login ID does not end with "a"), then you will have to have the
account holder configure this stuff for you.  Once configuration is
complete, you can proceed to the Aerosmith event by selecting the Chat menu's
"Begin Chat" button, and then choosing the "General" area from the "Select
an Area" list that will appear.  "General" is where Aerosmith will be
appearing.


To order special limited edition Aerosmith/EFF t-shirts do a Jump (J button)
to "Musicworks!"  To become a member of EFF (and to take advantage of a 1/2
price offer on the t-shirts when you join EFF!), send email queries to
Prodigy ID dnae43a (dnae43a () prodigy com or membership () eff org via internet
email).  If you'd like to order a shirt, or join EFF, right now, see the
end of this document for a form!


To get your autographed Aerosmith graphic, just click on it as it appears
to download it.


Contact Prodigy Customer Support at 1-800-776-3449.




America Online (AOL)
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Tue., Dec. 6, 1994
8:15pm-9pm (EST) in the AOL Coliseum Auditorium


You must be an AOL member to attend.  To participate, login, and enter
Keyword: EFF (via the "Keyword" menu option).  This takes you to the EFF
forum. Here, you can get information on becoming a member of EFF and
getting a limited edition Aerosmith/EFF t-shirt.  From this forum, you can
also go right to the Aersmith event in the AOL Coliseum.  You can also
participate in our online message forums, download files (including
autographed band photos and Aerosmith sound samples, as well as EFF
information files.)


To get your autographed Aerosmith graphic and exclusive Aerosmith sound files,
you can download them from the EFF file libaries (Keyword: EFF).


Contact AOL Customer Support at 1-800-827-6364




Internet
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Wed., Dec. 7, 1994
10pm-11pm (EST)


This final event will be held simultaneously at a number of linked interactive
online services called "MOOs".  No membership or fees are required for
attendance, but you must have a full (telnet-capable) Internet connection,
which may involve fees from an Internet service provider.  For information on
finding Internet access in your area, contact the Internet Network
Information Center at +1-619-455-4600 (fax: +1-619-455-4640,
email: refdesk () is internic net).


To reach one the MOOs, use a telnet client to log in to the MOO service, with
a user ID of "aerosmith" (without the "quotes").  You'll be prompted for
information such as an email address (at which you'll receive a band photo
and other information) after you log in and are shown to the auditorium.
The band photo will be emailed to you, to view later (or in another window).
Door prize information will also be emailed to the winners.


MOO services hosting the event ([name] - [telnet address] [port] - [notes])


BayMOO - telnet baymoo.sfsu.edu 9999 - San Francisco Bay Area, California
ChibaMOO: The Sprawl - sprawl.sensemedia.net 7777 - Santa Cruz, California
ChibaMOO: The World - world.sensemedia.net 1234 - Seattle, Washington
ChibaMOO: Hyper - hyper.sensemedia.net 7777 - Sapporo, Japan
ChibaMOO: Snow - snow.sensemedia.net 1234 - Australia
dreaMOO - fiinix.metronet.com 8888 - Irving, Texas
Metaverse - metaverse.io.com 7777 - Austin, Texas


Many other MOOs will be participating.  Send Internet email to
aerosmith () eff org nearer the day of the event for an updated list of
participating MOO hosts. You can also attend the even via World Wide Web
client software (such as Mosaic, Lynx, Netscape, Cello, etc.) A list of
supporting Web hosts will also be added to the list that will be available
from aerosmith () eff org closer to the show date. Telnet users can also
benefit from specialized MOO client software available at various FTP file
archives if not already available on your host system.


To connect to a MOO via telnet, do "telnet [address] [port]". Example:


telnet world.sensemedia.net 7777


Non-commandline telnet programs will probably simply prompt you for a site
and port number.


To connect directly to a MOO via a WWW client, such as Mosaic, Netscape,
Win/Mac Web, Lynx, or Cello, use the URL: "telnet://[site]:[port]". Example:


lynx telnet://metaverse.io.com:7777


Non-commandline WWW browsers usually just prompt you for a URL.


Graphical WWW participation, and email participation (for those without
telnet capabilities) may also be possible.  Send another message to
aerosmith () eff org closer to the event time for more information, which
will be added to this document when available.


*Please contact your Internet system administrators* or customer service
representatives for assistance with attending the MOO events!  That's what
they're there for!  If all else fails seek help on the following Usenet
newsgroups (via a newsreader such as nn, rn, trn, tin or nuntius), as
appropriate: alt.mud.moo, comp.infosystems.www.users, and/or
news.newusers.questions - many more knowlegeable users will be happy to
help you there.




Contact Info
============


For more information on the Electronic Frontier Foundation, send any
message to info () eff org.


Press contacts:
Aerosmith - Wendy Laister, +1 213 655 4140 (US), +44 385 300069 (Europe)
EFF - Shari Steele <ssteele () eff org>, 202-347-5400, fax: 202-393-5509




Orignal Press Release
=====================




Aerosmith & EFF Rock the Net
----------------------------


Aerosmith Press Release


America's premier rock band, Aerosmith, today announced details of a unique
global event which will take the band across the information technology
frontiers into new realms of Cyberspace.


In what will be the first event of its kind, Aerosmith's history-
making "Cyberspace Tour," scheduled to take place over four days (December
4 to 7 inclusive), will allow fans from all over the world to "speak"
directly to the band via the four leading information service providers:
CompuServe, Prodigy, America Online and the Internet.


Never before has a band utilized four online services in this way, and
never before have so many people been brought together at one time for an
interactive gathering of this kind.


Proceeds from the connect time charges and the sale of limited edition
"Aerosmith Cyberspace Tour" T-shirts (specially designed in support of the
event by graphic artists at Wired Magazine and manufactured by Giant
Merchandising) will benefit the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) -- a
civil liberties organization dedicated to advancing free speech on the
networks.  In addition, Aerosmith has secured substantial cash donations
for the Foundation from Geffen Records, EMI Music Publishing and Columbia
Records.


Founded in July 1990, over the past four years, the EFF has sponsored
litigation and legislation to protect the privacy rights of computer users,
to ensure that electronic publishers are treated equally under the law and
to guarantee that all speech, no matter how controversial, has a forum
where it can be heard.  As committed supporters of both the First and
Fourth Amendments, Aerosmith hopes to focus worldwide attention on these
important issues through the instigation of this event.


In addition to the opportunity to converse directly with each of the
band members, those participating will stand to win an exciting array of
Aerosmith prizes, ranging from the band's latest, collectible Columbia
release, "Box of Fire", and Geffen's "Big Ones" Aerosmith compilation album
and home video, to their first interactive CD-ROM game, "Virtual Guitar:
Quest for Fame, Featuring Aerosmith" and the CD-ROM-based music video
puzzle game: "Vid Grid."


Kicking off on Sunday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m. (EST) Aerosmith will first
join users of CompuServe, the world's largest commercial online service,
for an hour-long interchange.  The following night, at 10 p.m. (EST), they
will link up with Prodigy devotees for an hour, before surfing over to
America Online on Tuesday, Dec. 6, between 8:15 p.m. and 9 p.m. (EST). For
their final appearance (10 p.m. EST Dec. 7), the band will log on to a
linked collection of live electronic gathering places, called MOOs,
accessible through the Internet.  This last stop on the tour will see an
unprecedented number of users accessing the system -- making this a
ground-breaking excursion along the information highway.


For two of the online events, the band will be set up backstage, with
Macintosh Powerbooks courtesy of Apple Computers, prior to their shows at
the Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit (Dec. 4) and the United Center in
Chicago (Dec. 6).  For the other two nights, utilizing the same equipment,
they will take time out of their hectic schedules, to link up with their
fans en route between gigs.


Anyone with a computer, a modem and access to one of the four online
services (which are immediately available from any computer store or
through any of the commercial services' 800 numbers) will be able to dial
in and participate in this exciting tour of Cyberspace.


For directions to these online 'gigs' users should contact either the
Electronic Frontier Foundation at 202-347-5400 (voice) or aerosmith () eff org
(internet e-mail).  Alternatively, details will be available on each of the
participating online services.




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