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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.
Hoffa better start makin room in his coffin for this guy...
Leave contraversial lectures to professors with TENURE.
Being pressured, however, may have have had something to do with it.
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nobody expects the Spanish (Recording Industry Association) inquisition!
But as far as we can tell, he didn't. He needed a "trackerless" lecture system.
I believe Bird-Person can arrange that.
Doesn't he have a union or something? I mean, this is Spain, I didn't think things like this could happen there without some kind of repurcussions for the entity doing the firing.
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And if you commit a crime, and turn yourself in, you only surrendered and are not 'Arrested' right?
/backhandslap
Being forced to resign IS being fired.
But its ok to spend a year dead for tax reasons :).
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Could someone host his p2p lecture as worldwide video conferencing thing? I quite interested in what it all was about
Relase it via bittorrent. Nothing like using a P2P network to prove the point.
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He was resigned.
I think it would be great if they made peer-to-peer illegal. Since IP is a peer-to-peer protocol, you'd be able to shut down the operations of Sprint, Qwest, AOL, Verisign, and millions more. One day of 'peer-to-peer is illegal' would be enough for proof by contradiction.
Surely, if the Director is worried that an audit of his department will uncover unlicensed software, it's the Director and/or the IT guys who should be worrying about their jobs.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
The first rule about P2P, is you don't talk about P2P!
how 'bout I give you the finger....and you give me my phone call.
Reading, who knew you could learn so much? ;)
Don't let that out! You don't want the Religious Right in the US to get wind of Reading teaching people to think and understand things!
If they get wind of that, they will start a national campaign to start teaching "Inteligent Learning" via osmosis and straight preaching, cause student's minds are far to precious to over-tax with the burden of learning how to read...
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
...he should have ended it with "I'll probably be fired for this, so each of you go tell everybody you know." Or something to that effect.
Just as you should have preceded your comment with "I'll probably get modded down for this..." in order to get moderated higher.
"great enough to constitute a firing offence (shagging a student, for example)"
There wouldn't be any staff left if that rule were enforced.
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I vote in every presidential election, and every time the presidential candidate whom I voted for ends up with 0 votes *total*.
I don't understand. Are you voting for "asdfjlasjf" or something?
I'll probably get modded down for this...
but you should have taken your own advice and preceded your own comment...