Gratuitous audio: Download Sell My Soul
When I started talking about the Zombies and Pirates course I was thinking along the lines of a syllabus, a series of texts, a schedule, and a unifying theme. In some ways a traditional approach, one which I am comfortable and actually enjoy to some degree. The real difference for [...]
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Zombies and Pirates: Let’s begin
Published by July 19th, 2009 in open education and piracy. 7 CommentsPirates, Zombies, and P2P….Oh My!
Published by May 5th, 2009 in eduzirate, open education and piracy. 13 CommentsI’ve had an idea brewing for a little while, and I think I might finally try and act on it. I have missed the classroom a bit recently, but not so much the physical space and grading and all that. But just the organization of a series of texts and ideas around a more coherent [...]
RIAA: Three strikes and you’re without
Published by December 23rd, 2008 in copyright and piracy. 1 CommentI’ve been following the RIAA’s recent announcements that it will no longer be suing individuals, but rather working with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to enforce a “three strikes your without” campaign. As David Kravets notes on here:
The RIAA has sued more than 30,000 individuals the past few years, and has settled most of the cases [...]
The RIAA Hates Education! (Which means they hate you and your whole family)
Published by December 15th, 2008 in civil rights and piracy. 3 CommentsIf you haven’t heard, the RIAA recently accused Joel Tenenbaum, a graduate student at Boston University, of downloading seven copyrighted songs when he was a teenager. Such extortion notices aren’t necessarily novel, but what is unique is that Tenenbaum decided to fight back and is represented by professor Charles Nesson and the students in his “CyberOne: [...]
This newly minted law which calls for the creation of a ‘Copyright Czar,’ (“an unconstitutional violation of Separation of Powers”) is exactly what we have been waiting for, is it not? Just more charity on the part of the US Government to help big money through these troubling financial times. Moreover, it will ensure that [...]
P4P: Universities as techno-corporate thinktanks?
Published by August 25th, 2008 in bitTorrent, edupunk, piracy and politics. 1 CommentI’m a fan of TorrentFreak, it’s one of those rare blogs that streams interesting news on a very specific subject and openly acknowledges its biases while providing the reader with a ton of information to fend for themselves. In fact, I have come to think of TorrentFreak as one of the outposts in a war [...]
Tom Woodward turned me on to this fascinating keynote presentation by pirate radio DJ Matt Mason, author of The Pirate’s Dilemma, at The Medici Summit on March 3rd 2008. It resonated on several levels about issues that have been circulating for a while now in regards to re-mixes, mashups, and all things copyright in educational [...]
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