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The Chronicle: Putting lectures online

Benson — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:02:13 +0000

“Professors across the country are now wrestling with this issue. More and more colleges have installed microphones or cameras in lecture halls and bought easy-to-use software to get lecture recordings online. The latest Campus Computing Survey, which gathers data on classroom technology nationwide, found that 28 percent of colleges have a strategic plan to provide coursecasting equipment, and 35 percent more are working on a plan now.

Those plans raise a lot of issues. Some professors are camera shy—at least when it comes to their teaching. Others say they discuss ideas with their students that are not yet ready for prime time. And some administrators are nervous about giving away too much of their educational content as the cost of college continues to rise.”

Google’s book search case mapped out

Benson — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:20:15 +0000

That clears up everything…

Originally found this gem in The Chronicle. Digitizing out of print books and making them available on the web- which will win? Utilitarianism or Kantian Ethics?

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New DRM attempts to prevent video game piracy

Benson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:50:03 +0000

“Last month the worldwide effort to thwart the illegal copying and sales of video games took a turn to the draconian, with a number of publishers introducing new measures that often seemed to impact legitimate gamers as much as pirates.

France-based Ubisoft rolled out a new form of digital rights management that require players of their PC games to stay online at all times to play. Japan-based Sony tested out a new system that would require people purchasing one of their Playstation Portable games used to pay an extra $20 to play online. And Nintendo, taking a page from the music industry, levied a $1.5 million dollar suit against an Australian for copying their games.”

Downloading copyrighted material

Benson — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:31:20 +0000

Legality.

Is that like “Fatality” or “Babality” in Mortal Kombat? An excerpt from Wired says it all.

In an appropriately glib statement, Parker and Stone said they were inspired to start the site when they got “really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.”

Source: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/03/stone-unveils-s.html

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