p2pnet - rss feed: Anti-p2p propaganda in schools
p2pnet.net News:- CNET News is running a story saying 6th graders at the Legacy Elementary School in American Fork, Utah, “will start their journey to middle school on Tuesday with a warning from the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office about the ills of illegally downloading music, movies and games from the Web”.
Director Jon Dudas is to deliver this year’s commencement speech and, ‘will remind students that downloading and copying music, movies and video games without…the artists’ or copyright holders’ permission is an illegal activity,’ his agency said in a statement,” says CNET.
“Dudas will also talk to the children about the importance of intellectual property and describe the value of patents, copyrights and trademarks in our economy.”
This is nothing new.
The entertainment and software cartels have been snaking into schools with anti-p2p and ‘copyright education’ messages for some time and unlikely as it may appear, at the MPAA�s (Motion Picture Association of America) behest, Hong Kong recently announced a scouting copyright merit badge.
Even the FCC is in on it with Kidzone, proving you’re never to young to receive a propaganda message.
And let’s not forget the BSA (Business Software Alliance with Microsoft as a leading light) Willy the Weasel copyright crusader.
Soon, in the US and elsewhere, the first part of a typical school day will be devoted to hard-core entertainment and software industry propaganda delivered at the expense of tax-payers by teachers.
After that, they’ll be able to get down to the three Rs.
Thank God we home-school our daughter.
JN
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See:-
CNET News - Never too young for a copyright lesson, May 23, 2005
nothing new - MPAA: brainwashing children, p2pnet, April 27, 2004
scouting copyright - Scouting with the MPAA: IV, p2pnet, May 5, 2005
Kidzone - FCC launches Kidszone, September 13, 2004
Willy the Weasel - BSA weasels into schools, p2pnet, August 13, 2004
May 24th, 2005 at 10:37 pm
Someday in the near future, students will attend corporate-run schools (named after consumer products) that will sell advertising space on all the fences, walls, floors, and ceilings, and use textbooks full of targeted ads. Class lectures will have both commercial breaks and embedded advertising.
In a follow-up to the “no child left behind” act, the students personal information will not only be turned over to military recruiters to solicit them without their parent’s knowledge or approval (the situation today) but will be sold to commercial interests.
May 24th, 2005 at 11:10 pm
Yeh, and what’s really scary is some people aren’t QUITE sure if it’s a good or bad thing.
May 25th, 2005 at 8:42 am
I pray stuff like this will not be around when i have children
May 26th, 2005 at 6:40 pm
“Oh, it’s just fabulous, because we got a coupon for a free bottle of Splooge, that new floor cleaner, a free screening for acid reflux, and free samples of Dammitol, for those tension headaches I get when the kids are making so much noise playing “Copyright Lawyer” with each other….”
January 24th, 2006 at 1:01 am
When you leave to go to the bathroom ,you MUST say We’ll be right back right after these messages!