Hollywood wants to ‘educate’ your kids
p2pnet news view | Kids & Kartels:- | MPAA News:- An important part of Hollywood’s MPAA (Motionless Picture Association of America) mission and responsibility is to brainwash parents, students, teachers – “consumers of all ages and walks of life” – into believing intellectual property rights are any concern of theirs, using teachers to mind-rape the kids they’re supposed to be educating.
So with the studios behind him, MPAA scareman Dan ‘The Joker’ Glickman created a Hollywood Education Department to more effectively develop and disseminate lies, bolstered by mis- and disinformation, and dull the awareness of people who should be paying sharp attention.
Now, “Our efforts are focused on educating consumers who receive infringement notifications for illegal downloading about where to find high-quality, legitimate content on the internet and on effective ways to deal with repeat infringers,” the MPAA claims in a statement, says Wired.
It’s following in the footsteps of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA which is trying, and failing, to get ISPs to act as corporate copyright cops.
“Our efforts are focused on educating consumers who receive infringement notifications for illegal downloading about where to find high-quality, legitimate content on the internet and on effective ways to deal with repeat infringers,” the MPAA said in a statement, says Wired.
“The association, which is the lobbying agency for the Hollywood studios, declined to elaborate.”
ISPs will no doubt react to the MPAA in much the same way they’re reacting to the RIAA, ie:
‘You want us to do WHAT!? Identify our own customers and then rat them out to you?’ – but expressed in far more diplomatic terms
Listed below are five MPAA projects anyone in the least concerned about the welfare of the younger generations should avoid like the plague:
On Campus
In the Classroom
Copyright Awareness Week
Legal Alternatives to Piracy
Internet Entertainment Workshop (Best Practices Briefing Book)
The MPAA is wholly and solely funded by Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, who this January revealed they’d broken the billion-dollar-barrier — and in the worst recession America has seen.
Hollywood, itself responsible for the screeners which regularly and routinely show up on the p2p networks, claims it’s being “devastated” by file sharers and thousands of support workers are being thrown out to fend for themselves on the streets of America.
Therefore, kids of all ages and at all levels must be indoctrinated with corporate industry developed dogma and standards, Hollywood says.
Stay tuned.
corporate copyright cops – Comcast, AT&T say No! to RIAA 3-strikes plan, March 26, 2009
Wired – MPAA Negotiates With ISPs to Disconnect or Penalize Copyright Offenders, March 27, 2009
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March 28th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Are we going to see a new MPAA girl/boy scout badge again?
an, I reported a repeat infringer badge?
March 28th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
And here is another propaganda piece from the Government of Quebec. This one is designed so that the Economics teachers brainwash their students in Quebec secondary schools:
http://www.revenu.gouv.qc.ca/eng/particulier/votre_situation/jeunes_enseignants/COM-293-V%282009-01%29.pdf
Go to Page 6.
March 29th, 2009 at 7:17 am
From the “teaching material” about Taxes(!)
On the sale of a compact disc at $15.39:
• The retailer keeps $2.96.
• The distributor receives $4.38.
• The record company receives $4.36.
• The disc manufacturer gets $1.44.
• The performer receives $1.41.
• The author-composer receives $0.84.
wow, given those figures, wouldn’t it make much more sense to cut out the 2 positions with the biggest share and have that percentage given directly to the artists involved? you know, an artist as a tax payer probably has to pay more taxes then those big global record companies/distributors that can benefit from “legal tax evasion” tricks by mashing all their “losses” into one big pot with their creative accounting on their earnings.
Solution for the benefit of Taxes: make record companies illegal, require that 1.41 and 0.84 guys are working together to distribute their product via p2p and benefit from much more taxes!
Easy!
March 29th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
They fail to tell where the media tax on blank media goes to, and how its handled and not given back to the artists w/o a fight or the threat of a lawsuit.
March 29th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I remember grade 12 Music class way back they decided one day to try and preach a lesson in copyright to the napster crowd. I remember the teacher getting laughed at, and the irony of the hole ordeal was this teacher gave me something like 30/30 on a fully copied word for word verbatim critique of some orchestra that I didn’t even bother listening to. I recall 1 student even pointing out the flaws in the way she tried to teach the fair dealing provisions. The only good thing I took away from that lesson was citing sources effectively as to not put yourself in a position to be labeled an infringer.
Every time I see your kids and cartels articles its the first thing that comes to mind, though at that time I never even fathomed that it was the cartels forcing this on us.
March 30th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
“Hollywood wants to ‘educate’ your kids”
What a coincidence! I want to educate Greedywood too!