Today is the day for international xRIA madness. First, the CRIA gloats insanely over being harshly defeated in court. And anyone who doubts the twisted paranoia of these recording industry associations should know about what the Spanish Recording Industry Association did to a university lecturer this month. As related by the lecturer himself, Jorge Cortell, a teacher for five years at the Ploytechnic University of Valencia, the SRIA pressured the university dean to fire him after Cortell completed a lecture on the legal uses of P2P. The dean first attempted to block the lecture by denying use of two campus venues; when Cortell delivered the five-hour presentation in a cafeteria, he was forced to resign. Cortell now claims that dean is denying that Cortell was affilited with the university at all. Cortell is hoping to spread his story outside of the Spanish media, which have given it lots of play; now Boing Boing has itemized it. That should do the trick.