MPAA — invading US schools
p2pnet news Kids & Kartels | MPAA News:- Very bad news for American parents: Hollywood has succeeded in penetrating 20,000 schools in nearly 60,000 classrooms in 10 states.
Like their counterparts in the corporate music industry, the major studios have been unable to come to grips with operating in the digital 21st-century and are blaming their failures on copyright infringers.
Through their MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney have been aggressively targeting classrooms across the US, using teachers to plant specious corporate messages.
The idea is to “educate [read indoctrinate] millions of children about the importance of protecting copyrights,” say the studios blandly.
Intellectual Property law? For kids?
Schools slated for corporate invasion are in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and the District of Columbia.
Leading the attack are Lucky and Flo, two Labrador retrievers touted in the messy Hollywood PR blitz.
They’ve been trained to detect chemicals used in the manufacture of optical discs and the MPAA is claiming this helps enforcers to locate ‘pirated’ product.
Of course, all it really does is use up already scarce resources and cause problems for companies trying to move product country to country.
Malaysia is currently being used to promote the idea and the dogs are now starring in a comic book to be force-fed to children with nary a word of protest from parents, school staffs or administrators, or local or federal government agencies.
Across the border, another industry organisation, Access Canada, tried to similarly foist a ridiculous character called Captain Copyright on Canadian schools.
Captain Copyright didn’t last long.
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Also See:
comic book – MPAA Canine Cops now Comic Book heroes, March 4, 2008
didn’t last long – Open letter to parents, July 2, 2006
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March 6th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
You are barking for nothing. No-one cares.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:20 am
I wouldnt say that.
I shall do my best to ferry this news far and wide, Cheers Jon
March 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
wE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION MPAA!
May 11th, 2008 at 6:53 am
The music industry cartel plays their songs for free on our TVs and radios, in our cars, and in the shops on a 24 hour basis until you can’t get it out of your head and then they sue for millions those who choose not to buy them. They are crooks. An mp3 is worth nothing, it can be reproduced at zero cost at no loss to the record industry cartel and if I was TorrentSpy I would not pay the money grubbing zionist criminals the shit off my shoe.