Hollywood invades Taiwan schools
p2pnet news | Movies:- Hollywood is launching another of its fake ‘educational’ efforts, this time with Taiwan students lined up as targets.
The corporate movie industry, raking in more money than it’s ever made before, claims it’s being ruined by counterfeiters and file sharers, using imaginative assertions as an excuse for invading classrooms and disrupting lessons.
The MPAA’s MPA has already polluted Singapore schools with Illegal File-Sharing: The Risks Aren’t Worth It brochures which, as p2pnet pointed out at the time, were being fronted by something called the HIP Honour IP Alliance.
The irony became even richer, a couple of days ago when numerous confidential emails from MediaDefender were without warning splashed online.
A US company, MediaDefender makes its living by spamming, on behalf of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), among others, fake download files called ’spoofs’.
Says the Singapore booklet:
Pirates frequently make ’spoofs’ of titles available on peer-to-peer networks, so what you think you are downloading might in fact be a fake.
And before the so-called HIP site mysteriously vanished, “HIP stands for Honour Intellectual Property,” it said, going on:
The HIP Alliance, IPOS’ (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore)flagship public awareness initiative launched in April 2002, is a group of Government agencies, private organisations and industry associations with a common interest in pursuing the need for education on IP. In partnership with the IPOS, the HIP Alliance is teaching people to respect and reward original creative works by Saying No! to Piracy. By urging Singapore to Saying No! to Piracy, the HIP Alliance and IPOS are encouraging people to Be Creative. Be Original. Be HIP. Honour IP.
Now, in Taiwan, the country’s Hollywood-backed Foundation Against Copyright Theft (TFACT), representing the MPAA’s MPA (Motion Picture Association), says in cooperation with Taiwanxs Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) and Taoyuan District Court and the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), it’ll be invading local high schools.
A booklet, similar to, or perhaps the same as, the Singapore item, will be handed out as part of the scam.
“The brochures were specially developed by the MPA to warn people that users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services risk exposing their computers to harmful viruses, worms, Trojan horses and annoying pop-ups, and risk data loss and identity theft,” says the MPA(A).
Also See:
ever made before – Hollywood’s eye-popping summer earnings, September 1, 2007
p2pnet – The MPAA’s Singapore lie, April 7, 2007
numerous confidential emails – MediaDefender fiasco: update III, September 19, 2007
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