Schoolkids as RIAA propaganda machines
p2pnet news view Kids & Kartels | RIAA:- On Monday, under the headline RIAA back-to-school steaming pile of poo, “For me, the mention of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA in the same sentence as children and schools always evokes the powerful smell of horse-shit,” I said, going on:
“The RIAA and its owners, the Big 4 labels, have for years been demonising children and their families across America as file sharing criminals and thieves.
“And now the RIAA is actually running back-to-school ‘advice‘ for teachers from well-known educationalist and RIAA spinster Liz Kennedy, who kicks off with, ‘And although heading “back” means a little more work (and a little less play) for most of us, there’s something refreshing about it that I look forward to every year –- the reminder that we all have something to learn.’
“There’s no point in quoting her any further.”
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) picked up on the travesty, saying, “after spending countless dollars on failed advertising campaigns against peer-to-peer file-sharing, the RIAA has created a classroom activity to outsource the campaign to schoolchildren.
“Next up: A classroom activity where kids police peer-to-peer networks in search of potential infringers!
“Fortunately, teachers looking to educate their students about copyright have an alternative: Teaching Copyright, EFF’s unbiased, informative and fact-centered copyright curriculum. Rather than bombarding kids with the message that using new technology is illegal, Teaching Copyright helps kids to understand their digital rights, giving them the information they need to responsibly create, critique and participate in the Internet’s participatory mash-up culture.”
But as I said in a post also mentioning the release of Teaching Copyright, in my view, suggesting copyright or intellectual property law have a place in any school curriculum other than a law school’s is a Very Bad Idea because it lends credibility to the entirely incorrect contention they should be there in the first place.
Meanwhile, below is a video of RIAA horse-source material.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
(Cheers, Marc)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
steaming pile of poo – RIAA back-to-school steaming pile of poo, September 14, 2009
EFF – RIAA Asks Schoolkids To Assist With Propaganda, September 17, 2009
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RIAA back-to-school steaming pile of poo
September 19th, 2009 at 10:04 am
This IS Nazi germany all over again.
The slow boil has begun for the frogs of this country.
Sorry about the potential ‘Godwinning’ of this thread but this is how it looks.
The only difference it that the leaders taking hitlers place are not ‘people’ in
the traditional sense of the word. They are Corporations that have been
granted the rights of ‘personhood’ without having to adhere to any rules or
fear any responsibility.
All of the pieces are there, the propoganda, the slow draining of rights due to a
manufactured common ‘enemy’, the ‘bread and circuses’ that passes for news.
Everything.