MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students 250
An anonymous reader writes "A number of groups, including the MPAA, are pushing to educate elementary school kids about the dangers of piracy. From the article: 'A nonprofit group called the Center for Copyright Information, which is supported by the MPAA and other groups, has commissioned a school curriculum to teach elementary-age children about the value of copyrights. The proposed curriculum is still in draft stage, but it's already taking flak. Some critics say the curriculum promotes the biased agenda of Hollywood studios and music labels. Others contend it would use up valuable classroom time when U.S. public schools are already struggling to teach the basics.'"
Great idea (Score:3, Informative)
Great idea... as long as it's objective and based on science.
You know... explaining how copyright once just lasted only a handfull of years and how downloading movies and music doesn't actually hurt sales.
Perhaps the kids should also be educated in the danger giving up your privacy to phone-home Digital Restriction Management, how companies steal control over your computer just because you want to play a CD and how they no longer actually own the things they buy in a store.
Re:Schools Teaching Morality (Score:5, Informative)
Sex-ed isn't a moral lesson, it's a biology lesson. The people trying to remove it from schools, or make it a "moral" lesson, are generally totally unethical religious crazies who want to deprive kids of accurate info. The same folks want to put their superstitions in science class. We all have an obligation to never let religious extremists limit education. People who can't handle reality should not be passing along their dysfunction to the next generation.
Re:Piracy makes more sense if stuff is worth money (Score:4, Informative)
The problem is that the current system is tilted so heavily in favor of the distributors... The consumers get totally shafted, and often the initial producers do too.