I’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 [...]
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P4P: Universities as techno-corporate thinktanks?
Published by August 25th, 2008 in bitTorrent, edupunk, piracy and politics. 1 CommentBitTorrent: An Educational Autopsy of the Hydra
Published by June 30th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 11 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 blog Torrent Freak is a relatively recent favorite of mine. I have read it sporadically for a while, but it seems like things have been heating up as of late in bitTorrent land as the MPAA and other interest groups start to ratchet up their war against bitTorrent (even the porn industry has [...]
“Just Say No!” A few more reasons for universities to foster independent mediated voices
Published by March 27th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 7 CommentsI have been following some recent threads about the RIAA’s attempts to bully campuses into forcing students to comply with copyright laws. On boingboing, this article summarizes the University of Nebraska’s frustration with the RIAA’s demands to rat out students who are sharing music using peer-to-peer technologies. They were so fed up that they [...]
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