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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Tag Archives: Harvard University
The RIAA Hates Education! (Which means they hate you and your whole family)
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 … Continue reading
Posted in civil rights, piracy
Tagged Charles Nesson, colleges, copyright, education, Harvard University, Joel Tenenbaum, lawsuit, P2P, piracy, power, riaa, students, universities
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BitTorrent: An Educational Autopsy of the Hydra
The 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bitTorrent, copyright, Cornell University, Cubit, Harvard University, mpaa, P2P, piracy, publishing, riaa, Tribler, universities
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