p2pnet.net News:- Downhill Battle has opened a pair of websites aimed at countering school propaganda “curriculums” being touted by the entertainment industry and the Business Software Alliance.

www.kidssmellbullshit.com features a ‘I’m better than the Weasel‘ contest.

It invites kids to write a letter to BSA or submit a photo, “about how their attempt to get to your teacher makes you feel and what you think about their galavanting about”.

The winning missive will be sent to the BSA and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and the creator gets an iPod.

www.copyrightcurriculum.com is a collaborative effort to write a public-interest curriculum for teachers who want to address these issues in their classrooms.

“The move was to counter private sector and lobbying groups’ biased educational tools that are being forced into public schools,” says DHB.

“Teachers across the country who use the Weekly Reader in their classroom have been receiving installments of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) curriculum in the magazine since September 1st. In addition, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has hired Junior Achievement to teach a filesharing curriculum that drastically distorts the legal realities of the history of copyright and peer-to-peer filesharing.”

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See:-
Weasel - BSA weasels into schools, p2pnet, August 13, 2004
Junior Achievement - MPAA: brainwashing children, p2pnet, April 27, 2004

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