p2pnet - rss feed: MPAA corrupts US Scouts
p2pnet news view | Kids & Kartels:- “Funny thing,” said Rafael Venegas in a comment post to a p2pnet.net story highlighting the fact Hollywood has conned its way into the Boy Scout movement.
“You put two USA lawyers in opposing sides of any infringement lawsuit and they can’t agree on how to interpret the law and its frequently contradictory jurisprudence. They can’t even agree on what infringement is.
“And someone expects some kids in China to have knowledge of IP law’?”
Under discussion was the fact that in Hong Kong, Boy Scouts now have to toe the Hollywood line by ‘earning’ Intellectual Property merit badges.
Reads like a spoof, doesn’t it? But sadly, it isn’t because a new crime has come into being, and it’s sweeping the world.
It’s mind-rape, corporate child molestation of the worst kind, and perpetrating it with not only impunity, but implicit encouragement from parents, are the entertainment and software cartels who are invading schools and other institutions to teach our children right from wrong, good from bad and what’s fair and what isn’t.
Hollywood, traditionally one of the most corrupt places on earth, and the equally tainted music and software companies prating to our kids about right and wrong? It’s like Jack the Ripper branching into cosmetic surgery.
In Hong Kong, kids are also copyright spies, and behind this terrible reality is Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) in its MPA guise.
And now it’s come to America.
The MPAA proudly announces it’s scammed the Los Angeles Area Boy Scouts of America into a, “new education program”.
The Big Six studios, Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, want to, “help raise awareness about the value of copyrights among the over 52,000 young people involved in Boy Scout programs in the greater Los Angeles area,” they say.
“The curriculum is part of an ongoing effort to educate kids about copyright protection and change attitudes towards intellectual property theft.
Troops will, “choose from a number of activities” to qualify for a “Respect Copyrights” patch.
“Activities include creating a public service announcement that demonstrates the importance of copyright protection or visiting a movie studio to learn about the people, time and costs required to make a movie and others,” says the MPAA.
And the studios actually managed to get Victor Zuniga, Los Angeles Area Council Public Relations Director for the Boy Scouts of America, to issue a statement endorsing the debacle without the slightest trace of shame.
“We are excited to work with the MPAA to provide this new educational opportunity to our more than 52,000 young people who participate in our programs including: Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Venturing and Learning for Life, and are working to expand the program to include all Boy Scout councils within the Southern California area,” the MPAA hacksters have him saying.
There are all kinds of examples of cartel invasions of our classrooms as they pollute the minds of our children with their disgusting, self-serving corporate junk, imposing standards designed to do only one thing: turn them into mindless consumers.
“The Respect Copyrights patch is a fun way for young kids to learn more about the what goes into making movies while garnering a deep appreciation.”
There’s no reason whatsoever for a child to know the slightest thing about intellectual property law, and to claim they need IP instruction is not merely farcical, it’s obscene.
The right and proper action for LA parents who love their kids to take is to make a huge fuss. Write to their local newspaper, call the local radio and TV stations, organize a concerned parents’ group.
Want to go camping? Camp on Victor Zuniga’s front lawn.
And they’d be doing it not ony for their own child, but for every child in America and everywhere else in the world because one thing is for sure: the people who run the Hollywood and other cartels won’t stop with LA, and nor will they stop with the Scouts.
“I can’t help but think back (way too long ago) to the alternate version of the Boy Scout Oath we sometimes joked around with,” says Bill Evans dryly:
On my honor I will do my best,
To take what they give me,
And steal the rest.
Next it’ll be the Girl Guides and Sparks. Then the Sea cadets, Navy cadets, Air cadets, and ……….
Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.
~ George Orwell, 1984
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UPDATE:
I’m a former girl scout who enjoyed learning archery, survival skills, and self-defense, while my male peers mastered cooking and sewing, and I well remember the mania I had for collecting merit badges,” says a post on sivacracy.net, from whence the pic came. “According to the article, there are no plans to develop a similar program in the United States, but I designed some nifty badges just in case the American scouting leadership has a change of heart.
(Thanks for the above, Masha)
Jon Newton
Also See:
p2pnet.net - MPAA Boy Scout spies, July 18, 2006
terrible reality - Hong Kong’s kiddie Net spies, May 31, 2006
sivacracy.net - Scout’s Honor, July 23, 2006
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October 21st, 2006 at 2:14 pm
http://tinyurl.com/ygajtl [wikipedia .png picture link]
yeah, last week they learned how to be good citizens in helping old grandmoms over the street or other valueable doings for the value of the community they life in.
This week they must learn how to be a good consumer and how to serve some greedy individuals instead of the society as a whole!
October 21st, 2006 at 6:16 pm
this makes me sick……
i cant believe this is being accepted with open arms and without some sort of resistance. I hate to think that this is only beginning…..
October 22nd, 2006 at 5:33 am
I expect that Hollywood has also infiltrated the public schools and slipped their propaganda into the so called “educational” media that many schools are using these days.
October 22nd, 2006 at 9:53 am
“You put two USA lawyers in opposing sides of any infringement lawsuit and they can’t agree on how to interpret the law and its frequently contradictory jurisprudence. They can’t even agree on what infringement is.”
True also for judges. A judge in the San Juan Federal District court determined that music a publisher infringed a second music publisher’s rights by simply having the second publisher’s songs on their catalog, illegally, as was argued by the second publisher’s lawyer.
Also one same lawyer cannt agree what is infringement with himself.
As fate would have it, both publisheres in the above case were sued by us (my family) for exactly the same reason, having our songs illegally in their catalog. Sort of stealing our songs. Strangely, in our case, running parallel to the first case, the judge decided that having songs illegally in a catalog is not infringement, even though plainly it is and is also a crime, appropiation of a right or “itellectual property”.
Strangely, the lawyer who argued in the first case that having another publisher’s (his client) songs in a a catalog was infringement took the opposite view in our case, and the judge agreed with the lawyer’s now reversed position. As a result we obtained no damages award for the theft of hundreds of our songs.
How do you explain this weird set of judicial circumstances and what is infringement to a kid?
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
October 22nd, 2006 at 9:58 am
The proper name for the above post.
October 22nd, 2006 at 4:46 pm
The most recent copyright decision of the Canadian supreme court was a 5-4 decision. The decision was delayed while a new judge was appointed as they otherwise had a 4-4 stalemate.
See “A perspective on the freelance journalism case from CLUE: Canada’s Association for Open Source” for some details.
http://www.cluecan.ca/node/439
I think any suggestion that Copyright law can be taught to people younger than University age is both a joke and an insult to anyone who actually works in this area of technology law. Maybe with some future clarified and simplified copyright law it might be possible, but with the current law it is not.
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:55 am
This story will educate kids that restricting people’s use to do certain things that, by law, is ok is wrong.
http://dustrunners.blogspot.com/2006/07/pig-and-box.html
Give it to as many parents and schools you know.