Hollywood: targetting ‘tweens’ in school
p2pnet view Kids & Kartels:- “The concept of intellectual property and its value needs to be embedded inextricably into the school curriculum.”
Is that a statement from Hollywood’s MPAA which, years ago, force-fed intellectual property law to Los Angeles scouts and scouts in Hong Kong?
“Trying to mess with the minds of children around the world is standard entertainment cartel operating procedure”, said p2pnet late last year, continuing:
“A Kiddie Spy program was launched in Hong Kong in 2006. Under it, 200,000 members of local youth groups would spy on internet activity and, report illegal file transfers”.
But No. This time it’s not Hollywood itself. But it is Hollywood child mind-rape, this time coming from David Puttnam.
In the Guardian, he points to a “recent FDA (Film Distributors’ Association) project aimed at the vital ‘tween’ generation of 8 to 11-year-olds, a teaching resource designed to stimulate classroom debate about why copyright existed.”
Teaching resource? It’s a pure, unadultrated corporate crap — another Hollywood indoctrination program aimed at implanting spurious Hollywoood ‘standards’ into the minds of our children.
“Today, it’s encouraging to report that this resource has been supplied, free upon request, to almost one in five primary schools in the UK – that’s 4,000 out of a little over 20,000 schools,” he says in the story.
Thankfully, we home school our daughter.
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Los Angeles scouts – MPAA corrupts US Scouts, October 21, 2006
scouts in Hong Kong – Scouting with the MPAA, May 4, 2005
Guardian – Film piracy: Lord Puttnam targets tween curriculum, March 11, 2010
p2pnet – Hollywood goes after New Zealand kids, October 13, 2009
mess with the minds – They`re brainwashing YOUR child, July 4, 2005
Kiddie Spy program – Hong Kong’s kiddie Net spies, May 31, 2006
home school our daughter – Open letter to parents, July 2, 2006
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March 13th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
I don’t know why the hell someone doesn’t find out who’s supplying this crap to schools and have them arrested. I know damn full and well if my child came home with that piece of garbage, saying the school was visited by some moronic rep from the Kartels, I’d be going right to the school board and finding out which enlightened soul approved this garbage so I could kick their ass up around their ears. I’d then call my lawyer and have the publisher and the asshole who brought the crap in to be copied and distributed sued to within an inch of their lives. School is not for this type of garbage, and as a parent woe betide the nitwit teacher that handed that book to my child. It’s bad enuff that they have bullying, peer pressure, drugs, half wits bringing guns to school to settle matters with their rivals, but now, having the Kartels supplying this crap to try and make them believe that downloading is illegal and copy right is sancrosect, when it’s not. `The sooner copy right is abolished the better off it’s gonna be for everyone. Hollywood and the Entertainment Kartels can take their BS and shove it up their ass.
March 13th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Mind Rape… lol
BBC use BitTorrent to stream their Content, AeriaGames use BitTorrent for Game Distribution, Live for Speed have their own tracker, Opera have thier own tracker(I think.. with torrents) to Distribute the Opera Browser for people who dont want to download it via the http
BitTorrent wont go anywhere, but Those people get paid alot to say Piracy is bad
Jon Censorship is spelt wrong, Psiphon from the UOT ‘Censorshiop’
March 13th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
I agree with Logan
but Schools should be running the curriculm by Parents first?
March 13th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
@ Andrew. Censorship
Thanks. It’ll stay like that for a few more pages, but Ive corrected it in the main template.
Cheers!
March 13th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
curriculum* heh
March 13th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Normally I’d say, No in regards to the curriculum being discussed with parents, tho some subjects are controversial enough by themselves at times. But in this case, it’s not a part of the REGULAR curriculum, it’s an add on that should not be allowed or at least optional if the parents want to have it taught then fine, but if the overwhelming majority of parents have no idea what is being force fed to their children, then yea, it should be discussed. As educators, teachers should know that this type of shit isn’t proper for grade school or even middle school. The Kartels should be charged with attempting to brainwash our kids and any school board that allows it to go on should be voted out.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
@ Logan:
“As educators, teachers should know that this type of shit isn’t proper for grade school or even middle school.”
It isn’t proper for school at any level.
Cheers!
March 13th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
So far any attempt by the corporates parasites to brainwash our kids have resulted in the kid laughing at them.
March 13th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Schools have people come and tell them that drug use is “illegal”. Does that stop the drug use among students?? No. Just hope the child rapers- I mean the Kartels are wasting money sending their agents to do their dirty work.
March 13th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
There are far worse things than the entertainment companies at schools these days, rampant drug use to name just one. Teaching is not the career it once was. Many graduates opt for teaching because it offers them good pay, union job protection and plenty of time off. Giving children a good education is incidental. We are thinking of taking our kids out of school.
March 13th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
@ “There are far worse things …”
School wasn’t so hot when I was there, more than half a century ago. There were no drugs, but there were other things, such as corporal punishment. I was strapped, caned, shut up in cupboards …
We home school our daughter because we’re both at home. Lots of people have to be out at work.
It’s a tough one.
Cheers!
March 14th, 2010 at 2:26 am
Has anyone got their hands on a copy of this kiddie-propaganda?
I don’t live in the UK, but if I did, I’d start phoning up local schools to try to get a copy, if as they claim, 20% of schools in the UK really use this excrement as a teaching guide. I don’t know if it’s available online, possibly not because they’d rather keep it out of the spotlight. Bad publicity on the internet killed Captain Copyright before that propaganda campaign barely even got started, and it’s possible they don’t want to risk following in those footsteps.
March 14th, 2010 at 2:57 am
I was at least able to find similar types of child-brainwashing propaganda by a company called Young Minds Inspired, or YMI, the company that created the execrable “Music Rules!” for the RIAA and the B4-U-copy “educational program” bankrolled by the BSA.
They have a long list of materials targeting young children, such as “Tootsie Roll educational program” and “Yoplait Kids! nutritional program” as well as numerous”educational programs” for many Hollywood films.
Can anyone explain how so much targeted advertising falsely proclaiming to be “educational” material can slither into public schools?
http://www.ymiteacher.com/teach.htm
http://www.b4ucopy.com/teens/curriculum.html
March 14th, 2010 at 10:50 am
@ Leave them kids alone:
It’s just as bad in the US, if not worse.
ON YMI, New RIAA child mind-rape package
RIAA ‘incriminate yourself’ site
Cary Sherman, RIAA spinster: Because we know that some audiences – particularly campus music downloaders – can sometimes be impervious to even the most compelling educational messages or legal alternatives, these new efforts aim to help students recognize that the consequences for illegal downloading are more real than ever before. We will continue to work with respected educators to reach students before college through programs like i-SAFE and Young Minds Inspired, but we simply cannot afford to write off a generation of college music fans. We hope that university administrators recognize the beneficial role they will play here – most immediately, by helping avert a lawsuit against a student, but better yet, by demonstrating the leadership that helps teach students right from wrong and by implementing the technological tools that prevent piracy from happening in the first place.
Also see Hey! Hollywood! Leave our kids alone! , which I’ve just posted.
Cheers!
March 14th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
…and you joking youself if you think that Primary School Kids, or High School Kids are going to listen to some guy ‘Piracy is bad’ It aint gunna happen
March 16th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Actually the saddest part of this entire exchange is the truth in how little is getting into the heads of the kids from any source at all in school. What the heck are we bothering to send them there at all for? Some comic (Jon Stewart maybe? ) once made some jokes about the future our bombs get smarter while the kids get dumber. Wait till we get to the point when it makes more economic sense to drop our dumb kids on the enemy instead! I am no Professor Diggory, but, “Bless me! What DO they teach them at these schools?…”