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p2p news / p2pnet: Up to 200,000 Hong Kong children are being recruited as Hollywood copyright spies.
“The city’s Customs and Excise Department has begun training youth groups to use a web page to report illegal file-sharing activities using BitTorrent technology,” says Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
Under this latest scheme, “youngsters will be given a blacklist of suspect websites to monitor and asked to report any illegal uploading activities that they discover through the customs web page,” says the story.
This will come as no surpise to observers of projects conceived and launched by the movie, music and software cartels to brainwash young school-children while they’re still impressionable.
Nor is this a first for Hong Kong Customs and Excise.
Together with the MPAA’s MPA (Motion Picture Association) the department, the Scout Association of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Society initiated an MPA intellectual property merit badge.
Knowledge of intellectual property law law is, of course, absolutely essential for every growing child and should be part and parcel of all school lessons.
Accordingly, the cartels are spending literally billions of dollars around the world to make sure their long-term free educational programs reach teaching institutions and child oriented establishments at all levels. The Business Software Association’s Willy the Weasel is among the most innovative.
The cartels are being assisted in this by the corporate press corps.
This new copyright spy campaign is, “also aimed at raising awareness about internet piracy issues,” says DPA.
Also See:
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Schoolchildren recruited as copyright ’spies’ in Hong Kong, January 20, 2006
merit badge - Scouting with the MPAA: V, May 11, 2005
free educational programs - They’re brainwashing YOUR child, July 4, 2005
Willy the Weasel - Anti-p2p propaganda in schools, May 24, 2005
corporate press corps - The Big Lie: Part II, June 8, 2005
January 20th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
If I would like to quote pink flyod for abit:” We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall”
January 21st, 2006 at 12:11 am
Amen brother, amen.
January 21st, 2006 at 12:26 am
is this a spoof?
January 21st, 2006 at 6:18 am
I seem to recall from a photo that the Scouts involved in this endeavor wear a spiffy uniform featuring a shirt that’s a lovely shade of brown.
–TG
January 21st, 2006 at 2:53 pm
..so did the commies.
January 21st, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Well at the least it is a step up interms of China… Instead of having all able body children making college sportsware, they are now sitting at a computer.
Who wants to bet that MPAA/RIAA et. al. are praised for helping the youth on so many levels?
January 21st, 2006 at 9:20 pm
I’ve seen Jon post that he and his wife home-school their kid.
So do I and am I ever glad
- MN
January 23rd, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Science fiction can’t keep up with these mad schemes.
January 23rd, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Science fiction can’t keep up with these mad schemes.