[FlamingCobra]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/mpaa-school-propaganda/

 

[MP-Ryan]

I don't have a fundamental problem with kids being taught about the legalities of copyright and digital distribution in school, but, as usual, the devil is in the details.  And these details look a little too Satanic for me.

[Lorric]

This should have been laughed out of wherever it was presented, not put into effect! Since when have schools ever taught kids the law, much less one as far down the importance scale as this?

In the end, it will just undermine teachers and confuse kids in all things when parents are telling kids at a young age to just ignore what they are being taught after they get chastised by their 7 year old for DVRing something.

[FlamingCobra]

when I tutored for the National Honor Society in high school, I went to tutor at the elementary school that I went to as a kid, which was considered the best in the county at the time. When I went to tutor, there were swarms of kids still in the building after school hours, because so many of them needed help in math, science, and english.

Now this legislation is going to take even more time away from teaching kids about subjects that matter. Kids are going to keep getting dumher and dumber. And for what?

[Phantom Hoover]

Since when have schools ever taught kids the law

Since... always? I mean the most obvious example is the concerted anti-drug campaigns but there are a bunch of 'social education' type things schools do.

[haloboy100]

To the industry:

UMAD, BRO?

[FlamingCobra]

Anybody remember D.A.R.E.?

[Polpolion]

What bugs me about things like this is that ideally people would be developing products and services to fill some market demand, not taking a mattock to the market in an attempt to carve people's beliefs and behaviors into something that suits the seller.

[BloodEagle]

This type of early-indoctrination practice, especially with regard to businesses, should be illegal.

[Lorric]

This type of early-indoctrination practice, especially with regard to businesses, should be illegal.

Indeed. It's all the worse for coming into effect in primary school.

Money must have changed hands somewhere. What kind of educator would drop something from a curriculum in favour of this?

[AdmiralRalwood]

I don't have a fundamental problem with kids being taught about the legalities of copyright and digital distribution in school, but, as usual, the devil is in the details.  And these details look a little too Satanic for me.

I agree 100%. I would be very interested to see, say, the EFF or the FSF try to write a curriculum about copyright, although I highly doubt the MPAA would endorse anything either of those organizations liked.

[Klaustrophobia]

california.  of course.