Teacher Fired for P2P Lecture

An anonymous reader writes "A teacher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, was forced to resign after a talk about P2P networks. You can read his side of the story on his blog." From the article: "The day before the conference, the Dean (pressured by the Spanish Recording Industry Association 'Promusicae' as I found out later, and he recognized himself in a quote to the national newspaper El Pais, and even the Motion Picture Association of America, as another newspaper quotes) tried to stop it by denying permission to use the scheduled venue. So I scheduled a second one, and that was denied again. And a third time. Finally I gave the conference on the university cafeteria, for 5 hours, in front of 150 people." Commentary on this story at BoingBoing as well.

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from the faux-news dept.

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot summary title: Teacher Fired for P2P Lecture
Fucking article: Actually HE RESIGNED.

/slap

People are pussies.

[DroopyStonx]

Have some balls. Stick up for yourself.

Most importantly: stop fucking resigning if you do shit that others don't agree with. Fuck what they think.

Give them the fucking finger and tell them to get over it and kiss your ass.

Simple, really.

Re:Two points:

[KlomDark]

Oh, go stand in line, you fucking sheep. You lame spouter of the party line. You disgusting conformist.

Re:Um

[gowen]

They get pulled into a quiet room and told all would be best if they left the university ... tenamount to firing

I dunno, but I'd guess someone who can't spell "tantamount" doesn't have a lot of experience of working in a university. Can you explain to me where you've acquired your knowledge of how Spanish Universities are run?