> "Students learn to repeat the program's motto:
> ''If you don't pay for it, you've stolen it."

Ahem, if I *tried* to pay my gf for sex she'd more more than a little P.O.ed. ;-)

NOTHING is less reasonable than the war on drugs!

Coming Soon: The Junior Anti-Piracy League?

Orwell is teh r0x0rz.

Because the special interest has lots of money? Come on, we're talking about schools here. Most of them are probably so underfunded that they'd paint their classrooms red-green-blue-yellow and have their students say "All Hail Bill Gates!" every morning if they got twenty bucks for it.

Matthew Skala writes "This article from the Süddeutsche Zeitung describes the 'What's The Diff?' program, in which German students and teachers can win prizes by learning to endorse the Nazi Party's version of social law. They're using volunteer labour from the Hitler Youth - not an organization I would have expected to see doing this kind of thing. I guess I'll have to move its card over in my mental Illuminati: New World Order game."

at my school.. the cop from DARE passed around 3 joints to show everyone... and he said "if i dont get all three of these back this schools getting locked down and everyones getting searched till i find it.." and like 30 minutes later when everyone got to see 'em and they got passed back the cop had 4

--www.bash.org

Don't copy that floppy! [bordergate...otocol.net]

"We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control"

Yeah, I just downloaded that one. It's really cool.

The students played roles such as ''The Film Producer," ''The Starving Artist," and were asked questions such as ''Has anyone ever copied your homework? How did this make you feel?"

Do they have one kid dress up in a suit, steal everyone's money, and drive away in a Porsche? Because we need a Jack Valenti.

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What's the diff in having 3 friends that swap movies off HBO or 3 Billion friends swapping some AC/DC albums?

2,999,999,997 people.

*snicker*

Drug use in America's high schools is at an all-time low.

I suspect that when you use the expression "all-time" you're using your own private definition of "all", of "time", or of both.

I remember when I was growing up back in the late 50s, we had several industry group sponosored programs.

My favorites were:

How to be Kool! - sponsored by RJ Renolds and the tobacco industry.

Never drink on an empty stomach - sponsored by by the Johnny Walker company and the spirit distillers lobby.

Hell, I rember my grandpa talking about the sheet music industry going schoolhouse to schoolhouse talking about the evils of the player piano. Said it was a deamon straight from hell playing that music and by even listening to it, they were going straight to hell.

When my kids were growing up, they started piping in Channel One which meant a less subtle hidden commercials for Snickers and Pepsi. They are now pushing 300lbs each.

My grandkids now need to deal with this crap!

At least when I went though the indoctrination programs we got government sponsored cigarettes and whiskey. What do kids get today? Aside from the threat of totalitarianism and re-education camps.

> Ahem, if I *tried* to pay my gf for sex she'd more more than a little P.O.ed. ;-)

See didn't mind when I paid her.

That's two double negatives. Go back to school and learn some grammar.

Outrageous? No, I think it's funny. I already can see this happening: MPAA/RIAA henchman spends 2 houres trying to brainwash the kids. "Any questions?" he asks. One of the students raises his hand and asks: "What was the URL of that Kazaa-program again?"

I always thought it read as invisible. Really.

And I always thought it was, "and to the Republic for Richard Stanz".

You learn something new everyday on Slashdot.

No time to read through all the comments - it's finals time.

coke parody [bbspot.com] - this is a parody of the MPAA actions in schools. Rather funny, once you read it all.

Do they have one kid dress up in a suit, steal everyone's money, and drive away in a Porsche? Because we need a Jack Valenti.

They had a Jack Valenti, but the Film Producer rolled a critical hit with his +1 camera, and no cleric was willing to help Jack.

At least that is what I think of when I hear "role-playing"

No, my my Ann Coulter fantasy involves her pulling a cart up and down 14th Street in DC while naked and with a horse-tail butt-plug stuffed up her ass as I whip her with a cat-o-nine-tails.

But I'm just weird like that.

From the article:

In the past year, the Motion Picture Association of America has spent approximately $200,000 to launch its program called ''What's The Diff?" to combat digital piracy. Despite the criticism, the trade group plans to continue the program next school year.

What about actually teaching these kids usable skills in school? Math? English?

Upon further reading, I realized that they did teach the kids a usable skill...

Many children in the class indicated they had never downloaded anything before... The volunteer and the teacher worked from a 25-page classroom guide to explain the concept of using a computer to download files, which they called ''morally and ethically wrong."

They tought a room full of kids who have never downloaded anything how to pirate. The even used a manual. Leave it to the entertainment industry to teach what they are trying to control.

Oh well, nothing to see here...