Teacher fired for explaining P2P

[Alexander Turcic]

Crazy story I found via Slashdot five mins ago:

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.

This Orwellian twist will make things very interesting in the future I believe. The MPAA telling schools what they teachers are allowed to say and what not? I don't think so!