Friday, May 20, 2005

Once Hactivist Hero Now Called Fraud

Spanish University Lecturer Forced to Resign Over P2P -- Now discredited by the Spanish Blogoshpere that gave him his rise, Jose Cortell has come under attack for his crudentials.

Cortell had been teaching about "Intellectual Property" among other subjects in the Polytechnic University of Valencia UPV (Spain) for more than 5 years, when he tried to organize a Conference to defend the legal use of Peer to Peer Networks in Spain. What followed were claims that pressure was applied by the Spanish Recording Industry Association, and even the Motion Picture Association of America to the Deans and Directors at the University for Cortell's resignation. Then the stories of a fake C.V. emerged. See Comments.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Read this spanish blog, this gentleman is not what he seems to be.

http://fraude-cortell.blogspot.com/

Anonymous said...

This Jorge Cortell guy has lost all creditability in Spain after spanish bloggers found out that his entire CV is fake. He doesn’t even have a bachelor’s degree.

Use Babelfish to translate the spanish websites.

http://www.acam.es/noticias_detalle.php?id=858

Here is a collection of websites on him since May 2005, basically everything since May 22 have been saying that he is a fraud.

http://piezas.bandaancha.st/docs/cortell.html

The spanish edition of wikipedia is preparing to kill Cortell’s entry because of his fake CV fiasco.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Cortell