If 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: [...]
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The RIAA Hates Education! (Which means they hate you and your whole family)
Published by December 15th, 2008 in civil rights and piracy. 3 CommentsTorrentFreak’s at it again (my new, favorite EduBlog) and this time an article by Enigmax, Textbook Torrents has closed shop just three months after it found itself in the spotlight thanks in part to Jeffrey Young’s Chronicle article “Textbook Piracy Grows Online, Prompting a Counterattack From Publishers.” In fact, the site immediately was taken offline [...]
The fighting Banana Slugs take on the RIAA
Published by October 13th, 2008 in civil rights. 1 CommentTorrentFreak’s Ben Jones reports that UC Santa Cruz has decided to fight the RIAA’s lawsuits aimed at their students by throwing a wrench in their methods:
Santa Cruz (UCSC) has put a spanner in the procedural works of the RIAA litigation machine. As explained best in the article published a few months ago by RIAA [...]
photo credit: Invisible Hour
With questions looming about our post-modern malaise despite increased connectivity, the hyped hive mind, ever greater access to resources online, we still often find ourselves paralyzed agents in the undertow of information. With such realizations at times like these I try to take refuge in the little battles that are [...]
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 [...]
Discussing a Syndicated Lab Notebook
Published by July 11th, 2008 in insructional technology. 0 CommentsAt this year’s EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional conference UMW Biology professor Steve Gallik and I presented together on his Online Laboratory Manual project. I blogged this project last Fall, and it has exceeded just about every expectation we had set out for it —which were pretty high to start with. In short, Lablogs was the perfect [...]
BitTorrent: An Educational Autopsy of the Hydra
Published by June 30th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 12 CommentsThe Disclaimer comes first
The following post is a ton of stuff I have collected over the last year or two on BitTorrent and its implications for educational institutions. This will all be fodder for an article in the EDUCAUSE Quarterly I have been promising for months, and I found the only way to [...]
The Many-Headed Hydra, or a Useful Figure for the Quotidian Revolution
Published by June 28th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 8 CommentsJon Beasley-Murray recently posted about the political term multitude, the concept itself is rather complex and can be traced through the political texts and philosophical thought of Machiavelli and Spinoza, and more recently the concept has been employed by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in their book Empire. After a little digging I realized Jon [...]
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