User:EsmondKane

• Name: Esmond Kane
• NickName: Ezi
• Academic Status: Undergrad and Overhere
• Class interests:
  • Intellectual Property and Copyright
    • Bayh-Dole, the Great Firewall: Of mice and Sonny Bono
    • 1923 and the dearth of Pirates of Penzance
  • DRM, Assumed-Piracy and Software-Libre
    • Sampling, the judiciary and caseload necessity
    • Technology and Economic Incentivization
    • The Home Theatre, hive of rampant criminal activity or digital-hearth?
  • MMO-etc in the First vs Third World
    • Castronova's Virtual Property and Zittrain's Generative Internet
    • Lanier's "Digital Maoism" and Wale's/Negroponte's "Empowered Unwashed"
    • The Horde at the Gate: eGold and unchecked Digital-Economic growth
  • Flash-Mobs, Swarming and Groupthink. Novelty and Originality?
  • Silicon snake-oil and the Singularity
  • The MMORPG Treadmill, when is Gold-Mining Labour? Opportunity and online Rights
  • Desktop Trenchwarfare: zombies want my brains/credit-card. The Security vs Malware Arms Race
• Work: Sys-Admin in the Harvard Art Museums
• Misc: Co-Admin the Harvard Forge

You can read my Spring06 LSTU-E120 midterm paper on iTunesU here (synopsis: DRM and Archiving are fundamentally incompatible) and my final paper on NetNeutrality here (synopsis: ISP bitstream intrusion invalidates the Safe Harbour rationale). You can read my final paper for MUSI-E145 on "The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld" here. I (may) be speaking in Novembers B School Cyberposium on an Open Source Panel/roundtable.

Note: Ultraworld is being actively edited so go to the history to see the "ezi" edits.