October 29, 2007 - 12:00am
By Tracy Mitrano
“You’re the most hated person on campus!” So exclaimed a student in INFO 515, “Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet,” during one of our classes on copyright infringement. A few weeks later, another student forwarded me the link to a DC++ posting. Its concluding paragraph starts with the statement “Fire Mitrano.”
It takes courage to disclose such negative sentiments to the very person who is going to give you a final grade in a four- credit course. Nonetheless, those leadership qualities are of the kind required by all of us — students, faculty and administrators — to address the critical issues surrounding the politics of digital copyright.
