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[News] Kids to be Indoctrinated at Taxpayers' Expense by Intellectual Monopolies Racketeers

  • Subject: [News] Kids to be Indoctrinated at Taxpayers' Expense by Intellectual Monopolies Racketeers
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:11:11 +0100
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A Look At The RIAA's Copyright Propaganda For Schools

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| It's back to school time, and our friends over at the RIAA have a blog post 
| up excitedly talking up its special "curriculum" for teachers. But, of 
| course, that "curriculum" is laughably biased and at times outright wrong. 
| And it makes me wonder: why would any educational institution accept a one-
| sided curriculum written by the industry that's clearly designed to promote 
| that industry's own business? Do schools use science curricula provided by 
| Exxon or Monsanto? As for the actual content included in the curriculum 
| (which, by the way, the RIAA links to incorrectly twice), it's almost a 
| joke.
`----

http://techdirt.com/articles/20090911/0136516161.shtml

Itâs Back To School time. This year your kids get taught a lesson by âProfessor RIAAâ

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| After the music indsutry has tried such brass-knuckle tactics in the past 
| as selling fake CDs brimming with malicious software designed to disable 
| your hardware, and violating the GNU GPL license by misappropriating a copy 
| of Xubuntu Linux to turn into a âUniversity Tookitâ which backdoored 
| university networks (the bastards were on the receiving end of that DMCA 
| Take Down Notice for a change), theyâre now moving on with a full frontal 
| assault on your childâs education.
`----

http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/its-back-to-school-time-this-year-your-kids-get-taught-a-lesson-by-professor-riaa/


Recent:

Patent brainwashing in elementary schools (???)

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| Alas! The terrible things they're teaching my children in schools these days,
| probably funded by Microsoft's OnMyWay program!
|
| I went to visit my son's class today, and discovered that they had been
| submitting proposals for patents, their teachers clearly no fans of
| innovation.... :-)
`----

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9953254-16.html

Watch what Microsoft said in its SEC filings about child brainwash:

http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx


Recent:

Can Microsoft teach tots digital-age virtue?

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| The basis of Redmond's pitch was a small survey they sponsored where nearly
| half of the kids polled said they were unfamiliar with the rules and
| guidelines of using copyrighted media. Microsoft figured tots would be less
| inclined to steal someone's IP if they knew about the alleged consequences.  
|
| A lot of digital ink was used to slam Microsoft's scheme. People need Redmond
| telling them about IP rules like they need Pavorotti schooling them about a
| well-balanced diet.  
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/microsoft_ip_curriculum_look/


Threat Of Jail Time Increases Respect For Copyright, Microsoft Says

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| It's not clear whether Microsoft's statement to teen respondents -- "When you
| do not follow these rules you are open to significant fines and possibly jail
| time" -- is entirely accurate, particularly when teens under the age of 18
| are involved. Emily Berger, an intellectual property fellow at the Electronic
| Frontier Foundation, is skeptical. "I think it's being used as a scare
| tactic," she said. "It's a real stretch of the law to say it's theoretically
| possible."      
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http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206503467


Microsoft training youth to love intellectual property

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| Take, for example, its commitment to help teenagers understand the importance
| of respecting intellectual property (read: giving Microsoft more money). It
| just put out a survey showing that when kids understand the rules of
| copyright, they're "less likely to download illegally."  
|
| [...]
|
| The one thing it didn't explain to teens is why they should retrofit
| 20th-century copyright laws onto 21st-century realities. Digitization is a
| fact. The web is a fact. Intellectual property is not the same as real,
| tangible property, and should be treated and monetized differently.  
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9871636-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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