- 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.”
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
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
